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  • PM Imran Khan strongly condemns Quetta blast, prays for martyred officers

    Date: 2019-05-14 08:17:44 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:11 - ID:7940581

    ISLAMABAD, May 14 (MENA) - Prime Minister Imran Khan strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Quetta's Mini Market area on Monday that left four police officers dead and 11 others injured. Khan sought a report on the blast that occurred near a ....

  • 16 militants killed in Farah Operation: Afghan officials

    Date: 2019-05-14 07:47:53 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:9 - ID:7940567

    KABUL, May 14 (MENA) - At least sixteen Taliban militants were killed in an operation carried out by Afghan forces in Farah province, TOLO News quoted local officials as saying on Tuesday. According to the officials, the operation was conducted ....

  • 5 dead, 1 missing after floatplanes carrying cruise-goers collide in Alaska

    Date: 2019-05-14 06:54:19 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:7940539

    WASHINGTON, May 14 (MENA) - Five people are dead and one person is unaccounted for after two floatplanes carrying passengers from a cruise excursion collided mid-air in Alaska, NBC News reported. The two planes carried 14 passengers from the ....

  • Trump says he'll meet with Xi, Putin at G-20

    Date: 2019-05-13 21:10:52 GMT - USA - World - SN:80 - ID:7940412

    WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said Monday he will meet with China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Japan in June, Bloomberg reported. "It makes sense to get along with Russia," Trump ....

  • Russia sees major integration capacity in China's BRI

    Date: 2019-05-13 20:08:11 GMT - Russia - World - SN:77 - ID:7940380

    SOCHI, May 13 (MENA) - Relations between Russia and China are developing successfully, while Moscow views China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as fruitful and substantive, Interfax quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying ....

  • China hits back with tariffs on $60 billion in US goods

    Date: 2019-05-13 15:38:37 GMT - China - World - SN:58 - ID:7940095

    BEIJING, May 13 (MENA) - China announced Monday it would raise tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods, hitting back after the Trump administration pushed ahead with new punitive duties on Chinese goods last week, the Financial Times ....

  • Trump warns China not to retaliate against new tariffs

    Date: 2019-05-13 15:32:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:57 - ID:7939982

    WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump threatened that the trade standoff with China will "get worse" if there is retaliation for US tariffs that go into effect on Chinese goods Monday, Bloomberg reported. "I say openly to ....

  • 4 apprehended in Malaysia on suspicion of plotting attacks in Ramadan

    Date: 2019-05-13 12:23:14 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:41 - ID:7939646

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 (MENA) - Malaysian police detained four men suspected of plotting a wave of killings and attacks in and around the capital during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police said on Monday. The Southeast Asian nation has been on ....

  • Judicial probe into Christchurch mosque shootings opens

    Date: 2019-05-13 11:11:57 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:36 - ID:7939539

    WELLINGTON, May 13 (MENA) - A judicial inquiry into whether New Zealand’s police and intelligence services could have prevented the Christchurch mosque attacks in which 51 worshipers died began taking evidence today, The Australian newspaper ....

  • Britain warns of risk of accidental US-Iran war

    Date: 2019-05-13 10:27:16 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:29 - ID:7939379

    BRUSSELS, May 13 (MENA) - British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told Sky News there is a risk the US and Iran could end up at war unintentionally. It comes after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled the Moscow leg of his trip to Russia ....

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