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Afghan Special Forces kill, detain 19 militants; destroy weapons caches in 4 provinces
Date: 2019-10-09 07:41:42 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:11 - ID:8136914
KABUL, Oct 9 (MENA) - The Afghan Special Forces killed four Taliban militants and detained 15 others during the operations in the past 24 hours, Khaama Press news agency reported. The military officials said Wednesday that the forces also ....
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Qaeda leader for Indian subcontinent killed in Afghanistan
Date: 2019-10-08 15:30:10 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:71 - ID:8136337
KABUL, Oct 8 (MENA) - The leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist group for the Indian subcontinent Asim Umar was killed during an operation in Helmand province of Afghanistan, the National Directorate of Security said on Tuesday. The Afghan security ....
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FT: Trump faces Republican backlash over Syria troop withdrawal
Date: 2019-10-08 13:42:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:56 - ID:8135857
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump drew condemnation from the highest levels of his Republican party after he appeared to give Turkey the green light to launch a military incursion into Syria against US-backed Kurdish militias that ....
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EU president warns Turkey of illegal drilling activities
Date: 2019-10-08 12:52:53 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:48 - ID:8136044
NICOSIA, Oct 8 (MENA) - European Council President Donald Tusk said that Turkey's continued illegal drilling activities in the Mediterranean only undermine good neighborly relations between the EU and Turkey. In a Twitter post, Tusk wrote that ....
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Trump defends Syria move: 'It's time to come back home'
Date: 2019-10-08 11:43:17 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:8135841
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (MENA) - President Trump on Monday dug in on his decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria as Turkey prepares an operation in the region, while members of his own party lined up to criticize the move, according to The ....
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Republicans deliver rare rebuke of Trump, slamming his Syria withdrawal decision
Date: 2019-10-08 11:37:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:35 - ID:8135842
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (MENA) - President Trump faced a swift torrent of Republican criticism Monday as lawmakers rebuked his plan to withdraw troops from northeast Syria, a move Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said would undermine US national ....
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Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus call for EU support
Date: 2019-10-08 11:31:44 GMT - Greece - World - SN:32 - ID:8135778
ATHENS, Oct 8 (MENA) - With the prospect of a new wave of refugees fleeing Turkey’s planned invasion of northern Syria, Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria plan to submit a text on Tuesday at a meeting of European Union ministers of justice and home affairs ....
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Nobel prize in physics awarded for work on cosmology
Date: 2019-10-08 11:07:54 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:27 - ID:8135744
STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (MENA) - US-Canadian scientist James Peebles and the Swiss duo of astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz are the 2019 Nobel laureates in physics, EuroNews reported. The three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel prize ....
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US blacklists 28 Chinese companies and government agencies over Uighur repression
Date: 2019-10-08 10:44:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:8135746
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (MENA) - The US Commerce Department said on Monday it was putting 28 Chinese public security bureaus and companies – including video surveillance company Hikvision – on a US trade blacklist over Beijing’s treatment of Uighur Muslims ....
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Afghan forces kill 18 Taliban militants in Ghazni
Date: 2019-10-08 08:11:33 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:13 - ID:8135413
KABUL, Oct 8 (MENA) - The Afghan Special Forces killed 18 Taliban militants during the operations in south-eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, Khaama Press news agency reported. According to a statement released by the Special Operations, the ....
