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  • Ukraine full results: president's party has solid majority

    Date: 2019-07-26 16:31:23 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:47 - ID:8040314

    KIEV, July 26 (MENA) - Full results from Ukraine's parliamentary election Friday gave the party of the country's president 254 of the 424 seats in the Verkhovna Rada, ABC News reported. The Central Elections Commission issued the final tally from ....

  • Man arrested in UK on suspicion of terrorism offences

    Date: 2019-07-26 15:34:35 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:44 - ID:8040043

    LONDON, July 26 (MENA) - A man arrested by detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command has been bailed to return to a Sussex police station in late August, the Metropolitan Police posted on its website. Officers arrested the 51-year-old ....

  • S.Korea says N.K. sanctions relief possible if Pyongyang takes concrete denuclearization steps

    Date: 2019-07-26 15:34:26 GMT - south korea - World - SN:43 - ID:8040196

    SEOUL, July 26 (MENA) - North Korea could get sanctions relief if it takes concrete denuclearization steps, including a verifiable dismantlement of its key Yongbyon nuclear facility, Yonhap news agency quoted a special security adviser to South ....

  • Indonesia plans new rules to curb jump in imports of plastic waste

    Date: 2019-07-26 15:34:12 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:42 - ID:8040258

    JAKARTA, July 26 (MENA) – Indonesia plans tighter rules to combat a surge in imports of plastic waste, such as a registry of trash exporters and tougher border checks, Euronews reported on Friday. Data from the statistics agency showed imports of ....

  • Iranian cargo ship sinks in Caspian Sea

    Date: 2019-07-26 15:03:55 GMT - Azerbaijan - World - SN:34 - ID:8040180

    BAKU, July 26 (MENA) - Azerbaijan rescue services have evacuated the crew of an Iranian-flagged dry cargo ship as it was sinking near the Azeri port city of Lankaran, local authorities reported. The incident happened in the western Caspian Sea, ....

  • Germany's Merkel, Britain's Johnson discuss Brexit

    Date: 2019-07-26 15:02:33 GMT - Germany - World - SN:40 - ID:8040198

    BERLIN, July 26 (MENA) - The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel has discussed Brexit and bilateral relations with new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ABC News reported. Merkel's office gave few details of Friday's phone ....

  • Bulgaria parliament overturns presidential veto on F-16s deal

    Date: 2019-07-26 14:58:50 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:39 - ID:8040100

    SOFIA, July 26 (MENA) – Bulgarian lawmakers overturned on Friday the presidential veto of a deal to purchase eight Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets from United States, clearing the way for Bulgaria’s biggest military purchase since the fall of ....

  • President Áder sets date of 2019 local elections

    Date: 2019-07-26 14:25:38 GMT - Hungary - World - SN:38 - ID:8040255

    BUDAPEST, July 26 (MENA) - Hungarian President János Áder has set the date of Hungary’s 2019 local elections for October 13, Hungray Today quoted a statement published on the website of the Presidential Office as saying on Friday id. "The ....

  • French presidency: Macron to meet Britain's Johnson in coming weeks

    Date: 2019-07-26 14:14:06 GMT - France - World - SN:36 - ID:8040178

    PARIS, July 26 (MENA) - Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to travel to France in the next dew weeks to meet French President Emmanuel Macron, France 24 quoted an official from Macron's Elysee office as saying on Friday. The ....

  • Lukashenko: Belarus will never ruin its relations with brotherly Russia

    Date: 2019-07-26 13:33:29 GMT - Belarus - World - SN:33 - ID:8040097

    MINSK, July 26 (MENA)- Belarus will never ruin its relations with brotherly Russia, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkevics, according to Belarus News. "We want good ....

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