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S. Korea's military forgoes 'enemy' label against N. Korea in white paper
Date: 2019-01-15 07:50:02 GMT - south korea - World - SN:10 - ID:7757624
SEOUL, Jan 15 (MENA) - South Korea's military deleted its reference to North Korea's government and military as an "enemy" in its latest white paper published Tuesday, a move seen as a reflection of ongoing peace efforts. In the 2018 biennial ....
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Los Angeles teachers are on strike, leaving 600,000 students in limbo
Date: 2019-01-15 07:19:02 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:7757576
WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (MENA) - Under a relentless cold drizzle, 32,000 Los Angeles educators walked off the job Monday in the country's second-biggest school district, CNN reported on Tuesday. That means about 600,000 kids have no idea when they'll ....
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Afghan president condemns Kabul attack as inhuman
Date: 2019-01-15 06:41:29 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:6 - ID:7757545
KABUL, Jan 15 (MENA) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack and labeled it inhuman, Presidential Palace said in a statement on Tuesday. Ghani directed relevant organizations to investigate the attack and address the needs of those ....
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Trump: 'I never worked for Russia'
Date: 2019-01-14 19:18:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:84 - ID:7757126
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said definitively on Monday he never worked for Russia after offering a non-denial when questioned over the weekend about an FBI investigation into whether he was working with Moscow, CNN ....
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Poland says Warsaw’s ME summit not against anybody
Date: 2019-01-14 19:05:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:75 - ID:7756991
WARSAW, Jan 14 (MENA) – The upcoming Warsaw’s Middle East global summit will not be a hostile move against any country, but will be centered only on bringing about peace, the Polish presidency said Monday. Krzysztof Szczerski, Polish president's ....
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Gas explosion reported in northwestern Turkey
Date: 2019-01-14 08:36:46 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:22 - ID:7755830
ANKARA, Jan 14 (MENA) - A gas explosion near a pipeline in northwest Turkey's Sakarya province was believed to have been caused by a landslide, the state-owned Anadolu news agency quoted the province's governor as saying. "We estimate the ....
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One person killed, six remain under rubble following gas blast in Russia's south
Date: 2019-01-14 07:05:22 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:7755759
MOSCOW, Jan 14 (MENA) - One person was killed and six may be trapped under rubble in the wake of the Rostov Region residential building gas blast, the Russian Emergencies Ministry press service informed TASS. "Seven people have been rescued, six ....
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Cargo plane with 9 people on board crashes at Iran's Fath airport
Date: 2019-01-14 06:23:00 GMT - Iran - World - SN:10 - ID:7755725
TEHRAN, Jan 14 (MENA) - A cargo plane with nine people on board crashed on Monday at Iran's Fath airport, Iran's Fars news agency reported. There was no immediate report of casualties, it added. "We don't have clear information about the ....
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Venezuelan congress leader briefly detained
Date: 2019-01-14 06:20:02 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:8 - ID:7755709
CARACAS, Jan 13 (MENA) - Juan Guaido, the new head of Venezuela's increasingly defiant congress, was pulled from his vehicle and briefly detained by police Sunday, a day after the US backed him assuming the presidency as a way out of the country's ....
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Gdansk mayor stabbed at charity event
Date: 2019-01-14 06:08:43 GMT - Poland - World - SN:6 - ID:7755706
WARSAW, Jan 14 (MENA) - The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk has been seriously injured after being stabbed on stage at the country's biggest charity event, the BBC reported Monday. Pawel Adamowicz, 53, was taken to hospital, where he is in a ....
