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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • Jawad Bendaoud jailed 4 years for harboring terrorists involved in Paris attacks

    Date: 2019-03-29 16:26:09 GMT - France - World - SN:52 - ID:7872114

    PARIS, March 29 (MENA) - A French court has found so-called "Daesh landlord" Jawad Bendaoud guilty of harboring two persons involved in the 13 November Paris attacks in 2015 – and sentenced him to four years in prison, France 24 reported. The ....

  • ICRC: Hardest hit communities remain cut off from outside assistance due to cyclone Idai

    Date: 2019-03-29 16:13:53 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:51 - ID:7871932

    GENEVA, March 29 (MENA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned as flood-waters from Cyclone Idai recede, the scale of the devastation left behind is becoming clearer. But, some of the hardest hit communities remain cut off from ....

  • Trump advisor warns against deploying military assets to Venezuela

    Date: 2019-03-29 15:43:17 GMT - USA - World - SN:49 - ID:7872043

    WASHINGTON, March 29 (MENA) - A top White House advisor on Friday issued a veiled warning to "direct threat" to international peace, CNBC reported. "We strongly caution actors external to the Western Hemisphere against deploying military assets ....

  • US will never remove sanctions on Moscow, says Russian PM

    Date: 2019-03-29 15:20:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:47 - ID:7872042

    MOSCOW, March 29 (MENA) - Washington will never remove sanctions on Moscow because this is what its policies have been based on for years, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said while answering questions from users of the VKontakte social ....

  • Irish party says will not support Brexit deal

    Date: 2019-03-29 13:44:12 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:36 - ID:7871770

    LONDON, March 29 (MENA) - Irish Democratic Unionist Party lawmaker Sammy Wilson said on Friday he, and the rest of his party, would oppose the government's attempt to get approval for its European Union Withdrawal Agreement at a vote later and on ....

  • Kremlin calls on US to respect Russia’s right to cooperate with Venezuela

    Date: 2019-03-29 12:46:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:30 - ID:7871767

    MOSCOW, March 29 (MENA) - Third countries should not worry about Russia-Venezuela relations, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, highlighting the need to respect the right to cooperation. "We don’t think that third ....

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