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  • Four dead after Florida police chase, shootout

    Date: 2019-12-06 08:10:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:8218327

    WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - Four people were reportedly killed after a police chase and subsequent shootout on a busy street in Florida on Thursday afternoon, The Hill reported. Following a robbery in Coral Gables, Fla., the robbers hijacked a UPS ....

  • US offers $15 million for info on Iranian planner of Karbala attack

    Date: 2019-12-05 22:54:35 GMT - USA - World - SN:71 - ID:8218103

    WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (MENA) – The US State Department announced Thursday it was offering $15 million for information related to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Commander who planned one of the most sophisticated attacks against coalition troops in Iraq, ....

  • US accuses Iran of killing more than 1,000 people in recent protests

    Date: 2019-12-05 22:33:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:68 - ID:8218216

    WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (MENA) – The administration of US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Iranian security forces of killing more than 1,000 people in crackdowns against recent protests that have swept the country, The Sydney Morning Herald ....

  • Cyprus appeals to The Hague to protect its sovereign rights against Turkish aggression, says President

    Date: 2019-12-05 12:05:36 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:25 - ID:8217334

    NICOSIA, Dec 5 (MENA) - Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice in The Hague to protect its maritime rights from Turkish acts of aggression. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades was quoted by Cyprus News Agency as saying that ....

  • Cyprus addresses Turkish violations at EU energy meeting

    Date: 2019-12-05 10:51:58 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:19 - ID:8217000

    NICOSIA, Dec 5 (MENA) - The issue of escalating Turkish violations in the Cyprus EEZ has been raised by Cypriot Energy Minister George Lakkotrypis while addressing a meeting of the EU Energy Ministers' Council, held Thursday in Brussels, according ....

  • White House to defend Trump in Senate as it moves toward impeachment vote

    Date: 2019-12-05 08:34:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:8216975

    WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (MENA) - The White House signaled that it will aggressively defend President Donald Trump in a near-certain Senate impeachment trial in the coming weeks, as legal experts called by House Democrats testified in a contentious hearing ....

  • S. Korea, Japan to hold talks over months-long trade row

    Date: 2019-12-05 08:05:11 GMT - south korea - World - SN:10 - ID:8216948

    SEOUL, Dec 5 (MENA) - South Korea said Thursday it will hold talks with Japan in Tokyo later this month in the latest attempt to settle their months-long trade row stemming from shared history, Yonhap news agency reported. The two countries ....

  • Japan to dispatch 270 sailors to Middle East

    Date: 2019-12-05 07:37:45 GMT - Japan - World - SN:7 - ID:8216936

    TOKYO, Dec 5 (MENA) - The Japanese government plans to send 270 sailors from the Maritime Self-Defense Force to the northern Arabian Sea, which leads to the critical Gulf of Oman and narrow Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, Nikkei Asian Review newspaper ....

  • 58 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania: UN

    Date: 2019-12-05 07:08:39 GMT - Mauritania - World - SN:6 - ID:8216907

    NOUAKCHOTT, Dec 5 (MENA) - At least 58 people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the West African nation of Mauritania, the Time newspaper quoted the UN migration agency as saying. It said 83 ....

  • Pearl Harbor shooting: 2 civilians killed and suspect dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

    Date: 2019-12-05 05:34:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:1 - ID:8216847

    WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (MENA) - A US Navy sailor opened fire at a naval shipyard at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii on Wednesday, killing two civilian shipyard employees and wounding another before dying from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot ....

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