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Las Vegas apartment complex fire kills at least 6, injures 13
Date: 2019-12-22 08:16:48 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:8239152
WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (MENA) - A fire that erupted at a Las Vegas apartment building early Saturday morning killed at least six people and injured 13, Fox News quoted officials as saying. Authorities said Sunday they are investigating the fire that ....
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Afghanistan's Ghani secures 50.64% of presidential vote in preliminary result
Date: 2019-12-22 08:15:20 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:12 - ID:8239156
KABUL, Dec 22 (MENA) - Afghanistan election commission said on Sunday incumbent President Ashraf Ghani won the majority of September 28 presidential election votes in delayed preliminary results from a poll that plunged the country into political ....
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US braces for North Korean weapons test for intercontinental ballistic missile
Date: 2019-12-21 22:23:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:38 - ID:8239009
NEW YORK, Dec 21 (MENA) - American military and intelligence officials tracking North Korea’s actions by the hour say they are bracing for an imminent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching American shores, paper said. ....
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Afghan official: Hundreds of Daesh members, family detained
Date: 2019-12-21 17:29:54 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:28 - ID:8238732
KABUL, Dec 21 (MENA) - The Afghan government said Saturday it has detained about 700 Daesh fighters and family members in eastern Afghanistan over the past six months, ABC News reported. The Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate ....
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Trump says he had a ‘very good talk with President Xi’ about China trade deal
Date: 2019-12-20 22:59:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:40 - ID:8237978
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had a “very good talk” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping about the trade deal, indicating more progress has been made after they reached the initial agreement, CNBC reported. ....
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4 dead in Spain and Portugal from accidents caused by storms
Date: 2019-12-20 16:57:30 GMT - Spain - World - SN:28 - ID:8237584
Madrid, Dec 20 (MENA) - Authorities in Spain and Portugal said Friday that four people have died in accidents following heavy rain, ABC News reported. The office of Spain’s government representative in the northwestern region of Galicia said one ....
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UK Parliament backs Brexit deal in decisive step toward leaving the EU
Date: 2019-12-20 14:55:33 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:25 - ID:8237666
LONDON, Dec 20 (MENA) - British lawmakers on Friday finally voted to back a plan to withdraw from the European Union, Euronews reported. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's bill, backed by a huge parliamentary majority, will take the country out ....
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Japan lifts chip material export curbs against S. Korea ahead of trilateral summit
Date: 2019-12-20 14:52:49 GMT - south korea - World - SN:24 - ID:8237589
SEOUL, Dec 20 (MENA) - Japan on Friday partially lifted curbs on exports to South Korea of a chip material, one of three products subject to recent restrictions, in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a trilateral summit with Seoul and Beijing ....
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Earthquake measuring 6.4 jolts Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar
Date: 2019-12-20 13:20:21 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:22 - ID:8237477
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20 (MENA) - Tremors were felt in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and other cities of district Khyber on Friday as an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked Pakistan, Geo News reported. The earthquake was also felt in the ....
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Indian court sentenced 4 men to death in 2008 Jaipur blasts
Date: 2019-12-20 12:53:51 GMT - India - World - SN:21 - ID:8237479
NEW DELHI, Dec 20 (MENA) - Four people, who have been found guilty of involvement in multiple bomb explosions that killed 80 in Jaipur in 2008, have been sentenced to death by a court in Rajasthan's capital. One person has been acquitted. The ....
