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  • UN marks its 75th anniversary by launching a global dialogue

    Date: 2020-01-05 11:41:31 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:30 - ID:8256428

    NEW YORK, Jan 5 (MENA) - The UN marked its 75th anniversary by launching a global dialogue in a bid to incorporate digital media for people around the world to reach out and say how they want the future to change in the next quarter of ....

  • Car plows into crowd in Italy killing German tourists

    Date: 2020-01-05 09:20:40 GMT - Italy - World - SN:20 - ID:8256215

    ROME, Jan 5 (MENA) - A car plowed into a group of 17 tourists overnight near a popular ski resort town in northern Italy's South Tyrol province on Sunday, killing at least six people, Deutsche Welle reported. Italian police said they believed ....

  • Τurkey seeks to implement an expansionist policy in the East Med region, Anastasiades says

    Date: 2020-01-05 09:00:12 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:18 - ID:8256153

    NICOSIA, Jan 5 (MENA) - President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said that Turkey is seeking to vigorously implement an expansionist policy in the broader Eastern Mediterranean region – a development which, he added, represents a major threat, Cyprus ....

  • Cambodia building collapse kills 36

    Date: 2020-01-05 08:35:27 GMT - Cambodia - World - SN:17 - ID:8256165

    PHNOM PENH, Jan 5 (MENA) - The death toll from the collapse of a building under construction in Cambodia surged to 36 on Sunday, even as an additional survivor was pulled from rubble, officials said. At least a dozen bodies were found in ....

  • Austrian Foreign Ministry reports 'serious cyberattack'

    Date: 2020-01-05 08:28:47 GMT - Austria - World - SN:14 - ID:8256154

    VIENNA, Jan 5 (MENA) - Austria's Foreign Ministry is facing a "serious cyberattack," Voice of America reported. Austria warned that another country could be responsible. "Due to the gravity and nature of the attack, it cannot be excluded ....

  • Iran will take harsh but not hasty revenge, says military spox

    Date: 2020-01-04 13:22:10 GMT - Iran - World - SN:29 - ID:8255354

    TEHRAN, Jan 4 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi announced on Saturday that Iran will respond to the US move of assassination of IRGC's Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani but ....

  • NATO suspends training mission in Iraq

    Date: 2020-01-04 12:54:01 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:27 - ID:8255347

    BRUSSELS, Jan 4 (MENA) - NATO has suspended the work of its mission in Iraq to train personnel for the local army, TASS reported on Saturday. The move was taken as a result of growing instability in the country after the US airstrikes near ....

  • 4 killed, injured in northern Afghanistan explosion

    Date: 2020-01-04 10:39:07 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:18 - ID:8255173

    KABUL, Jan 4 (MENA) - One person was killed and three others were injured Saturday when a booby trapped vehicle went off in the northern Afghanistan province of Balkh, according to Khaama Press news agency. Three people got minor wounds in the ....

  • Pakistan deeply concerned about developments in Middle East

    Date: 2020-01-03 17:53:43 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:37 - ID:8254685

    ISLAMABAD, Jan 3 (MENA) - Pakistan on Friday urged Iran and the United States to exercise "maximum restraint" as tensions flared between the two countries following the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani at an airport in Baghdad. ....

  • At least one dead, suspect killed after stabbing outside Paris

    Date: 2020-01-03 16:38:37 GMT - France - World - SN:34 - ID:8254627

    PARIS, Jan 3 (MENA) - French police shot and killed a man in the suburb of Villejuif outside Paris on Friday after he stabbed several people in a public park. Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun of the commune of L'Haÿ-les-Roses, where Villejuif is located, told ....

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