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UNGA chief mourns death of Tunisian president Essebsi
Date: 2019-07-25 21:02:56 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:83 - ID:8039538
NEW YORK, July 25 (MENA) - UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa on Thursday mourned the death of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi at the age of 92, ABC News reported. In her statement released on Thursday, Espinosa conveyed ....
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Canadian PM mourns death of Tunisia's Essebsi
Date: 2019-07-25 20:48:09 GMT - Canada - World - SN:81 - ID:8039534
OTTAWA, July 25 (MENA) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday mourned the death of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi who breathed his last earlier in the day at the age of 92. In a statement, the Canadian premier said "Canada ....
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56 killed, wounded in back to back explosions in Afghanistan's Kabul
Date: 2019-07-25 12:47:49 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:40 - ID:8038799
KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - Three consecutive blasts in Kabul city left 11 people dead and 45 others wounded, Khaama Press Agency reported on Thursday, citing the Afghan Ministry of Public Health as saying. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Ministry ....
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Taiwan: US Navy is free to sail through its strait
Date: 2019-07-25 10:03:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:26 - ID:8038468
WASHINGTON, July 25 (MENA) - Taiwan said Thursday the US Navy is free to sail through its strait after an American warship did so soon after Beijing warned against foreign interference in its relationship with the island, The Washington Post ....
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Azerbaijani Air Force aircraft crashes into the sea
Date: 2019-07-25 09:59:43 GMT - Azerbaijan - World - SN:25 - ID:8038410
BAKU, July 25 (MENA) - A MiG-29 plane of the Azerbaijani Air Force has crashed during a training flight, a search operation to rescue the pilot is underway, the Russian news agency Tass reported on Thursday, quoting Azerbaijan’s Defense ....
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Death toll from Kabul blasts rises to 10
Date: 2019-07-25 09:59:30 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:24 - ID:8038380
KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - At least 10 people, including five women and one child, were killed in three bombings that struck the Afghan capital earlier Thursday. Another 41 people were wounded in the attacks in Kabul, said Wahidullah Mayar, a ....
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Puerto Rico governor expected to resign on August 2
Date: 2019-07-25 07:49:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:8038251
WASHINGTON, July 25 (MENA) - Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign on August 2 in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced online chat that showed the governor and close advisers insulting women and mocking constituents ....
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7 killed in roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province
Date: 2019-07-25 07:41:53 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:8038241
KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - Seven civilians were killed as a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in Khogiani district of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday. Khaama Press quoted provincial official Attaullah Khogiani as saying that a ....
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Federal judge in California halts Trump’s latest asylum ban
Date: 2019-07-25 07:38:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:8038205
WASHINGTON, July 25 (MENA) - A federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked a new Trump administration policy Wednesday that sought to bar Central Americans and other migrants from requesting asylum at the southern border, saying the federal ....
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Kabul blasts leave 28 persons dead, wounded
Date: 2019-07-25 07:16:07 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:8038206
KABUL, July 25 (MENA) - At least seven people were killed and 21 others wounded in multiple explosions in Kabul on Thursday morning, Tolo News Agency said, quoting spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health Wahidullah Mayar. One of the blasts ....