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Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in Special Forces raid in Uruzgan
Date: 2019-07-24 07:43:28 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:8036787
KABUL, July 24 (MENA) - The Afghan Special Forces inflicted heavy casualties on Taliban militants during an operation in Uruzgan province, Khaama Press news agency reported Wednesday. The Special Operations Corps in a statement said the Special ....
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Trump, Iranian regime running out of options
Date: 2019-07-24 07:39:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:8036774
WASHINGTON, July 24 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump and his adversaries in Iran are inching closer and closer to the brink, Washington Post reported Wednesday. Both sides insist they don’t want war, but a series of escalations in the Gulf and ....
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Four dead in rebel attack on Thai army base
Date: 2019-07-24 07:36:54 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:12 - ID:8036780
BANGKOK, July 24 (MENA) - Four people were killed in a late-night attack by suspected Muslim insurgents on a military outpost in Thailand's violence-wracked south, France 24 quoted authorities as saying Wednesday. The attack comes as anger ....
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US Senate approves bill to extend 9/11 victims fund
Date: 2019-07-24 07:27:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:8036731
WASHINGTON, July 24 (MENA) - The US Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill ensuring that a victims' compensation fund related to the September 11 attacks never runs out of money, Voice of America reported. The 97-2 vote sends the bill to ....
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Mark Esper sworn in as US defense secretary after record-length vacancy
Date: 2019-07-24 07:24:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:8036733
WASHINGTON, July 24 (MENA) - Mark Esper, an army veteran and former defense industry lobbyist, was sworn in as the US secretary of defense after receiving Senate confirmation on Tuesday, The Guardian reported. Esper’s confirmation, by a vote of ....
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EU's anti-Russian rhetoric not conductive to dialogue — Moscow
Date: 2019-07-24 07:17:27 GMT - Russia - World - SN:9 - ID:8036761
MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - Anti-Russian human rights rhetoric by EU officials are not conductive to a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Brussels, TASS news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement. The ministry ....
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Mark Esper sworn in as US secretary of defense
Date: 2019-07-24 05:47:29 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:8036671
WASHINGTON, July 24 (MENA) - Army Secretary Mark Esper has been sworn in as US secretary of defense. Esper was sworn in at the White House by US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a ceremony hosted by President Donald Trump and attended by a ....
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US airstrike kills Taliban group leader, his militants in Afghanistan's Ghazni
Date: 2019-07-23 22:07:56 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:67 - ID:8036526
KABUL, July 23 (MENA) - A US airstrike killed a group leader of Taliban and his fighters in south-eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, The Khaama Press News Agency reported on Tuesday. The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the US forces ....
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US senate approves Mark Esper as new defense secretary
Date: 2019-07-23 22:07:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:66 - ID:8036534
WASHINGTON, July 23 (MENA) - The Senate confirmed Mark Esper to be the next US defense secretary in a overwhelmingly bipartisan 90-8 vote on Tuesday, ABC News reported Tuesday. Esper is expected to be sworn in Tuesday evening, said Pentagon ....
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UK Home Secretary: Far-right extremism to be included in official terror warnings
Date: 2019-07-23 21:22:57 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:64 - ID:8036529
LONDON, July 23 (MENA) - The growing threat from "extreme right-wing terrorism" will be included in official threat-level warnings for the first time, the British home secretary has announced, The Independent reported on Tuesday. Until now, the ....
