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US, 33 states train navies in Gulf of Guinea
Date: 2019-04-01 18:29:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:7876924
WASHINGTON, April 1 (MENA) - The United States Navy and 33 other countries recently carried out weeks of maritime training in the Gulf of Guinea, to improve safety against pirates and to improve the monitoring of the West Africa coastline, ABC news ....
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Austria’s Chancellor decries attack against Muslim in Vienna
Date: 2019-04-01 18:25:01 GMT - Austria - World - SN:80 - ID:7876897
VIENNA, April 1 (MENA) - Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday denounced a verbal and physical attack on Muslim woman in central Vienna. Kurz tweeted that he categorically condemns the attack, stressing that his country strongly backs ....
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Comedian Zelenskiy leading Ukraine presidential election
Date: 2019-04-01 07:34:36 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:7875679
KIEV, April 1 (MENA) - A comedian with no political experience has won the most votes in Ukraine's presidential election, according to exit polls, euronews reported Monday. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who plays a fictional president on TV, secured 30.2% ....
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American Airlines flight makes emergency landing following bird strike after takeoff
Date: 2019-04-01 07:10:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:7875628
WASHINGTON, April 1 (MENA) - A Boston-to-New York flight has had to return to Boston after a bird strike, Fox News reported. An American Airlines spokesman said in an emailed statement that Flight 2163 to LaGuardia took off from Logan ....
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Ukrainian presidential elections kick off
Date: 2019-03-31 07:04:15 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:7 - ID:7873822
KIEV, March 31 (MENA) - Voting for Ukraine’s next president has kicked off, Russia Today reported on Sunday. There are a record 39 names on the ballot in this year’s race. Opinion polls earlier this week put comedian Vladimir Zelensky as the ....
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Five militants killed in Kandahar clash
Date: 2019-03-30 09:00:57 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:11 - ID:7872597
KABUL, March 30 (MENA) - At least five Taliban militants were killed in a clash with police force members in Kandahar province, the provincial police said Saturday. Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan said that the clash occurred in Maiwand ....
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Trump threatens to close Mexican border next week over immigration
Date: 2019-03-29 22:10:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:67 - ID:7872393
WASHINGTON, March 29 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his threat to close down the border between the United States and Mexico, but this time he noted he would act next week if Mexico doesn't step up, CNN reported. "If Mexico ....
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Russian Navy escorts NATO ships in Black Sea on way to Ukraine
Date: 2019-03-29 16:37:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:57 - ID:7872132
MOSCOW, March 9 (MENA) - The Russian Defense Ministry said that two Russian naval vessels are closely escorting NATO warships in the Black Sea that are headed toward Ukraine, The Moscow Times reported. The commander of a NATO maritime group said ....
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Tusk calls for emergency EU summit after May defeated again
Date: 2019-03-29 16:30:16 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:55 - ID:7872058
BRUSSELS, March 29 (MENA) - European Council President Donald Tusk has called an emergency EU summit on April 10 in light of the British parliament's fresh rejection of a Brexit deal. That came two days before the new deadline for the UK’s ....
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MPs reject Theresa May's Brexit deal by 58 votes
Date: 2019-03-29 16:28:33 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:54 - ID:7872027
LONDON, March 29 (MENA) - MPs have rejected UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time by 344 votes to 286, The Guardian reported on Friday. The rejection came despite May’s offer to her Tory colleagues that she would resign if ....
