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Trump, Mexico's new president discuss plans to tackle 'migration issue'
Date: 2018-12-13 07:44:39 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:12 - ID:7712569
MEXICO CITY, Dec 13 (MENA) - Mexico’s leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he spoke by telephone Wednesday with US President Donald Trump about migration and job creation, The Washington Times reported. The issue came to the fore ....
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Insurance claims at $9 Billion from California fires
Date: 2018-12-13 06:38:21 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:7712507
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (MENA) - Insurance claims from last month's California wildfires already are at $9 billion and expected to increase, the state's insurance commissioner announced Wednesday. About $7 billion in claims are from the Camp Fire that ....
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Russian nuclear-capable bombers fly over Caribbean Sea
Date: 2018-12-13 06:30:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:6 - ID:7712501
MOSCOW, Dec 13 (MENA) - The Russian military says two of its nuclear-capable strategic bombers were flown over the Caribbean Sea during a 10-hour training mission, Voice of America reported on Thursday. A pair of Tu-160 bombers arrived Monday at ....
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Cambodian lawmakers pass measure to ease political ban
Date: 2018-12-13 05:53:53 GMT - Cambodia - World - SN:3 - ID:7712472
PHNOM PENH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Cambodia's Parliament has passed legislation that could allow a five-year ban on political activity by top opposition politicians to be lifted, abc news reported on Thursday. Thursday's action was the latest in a ....
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Turkish high-speed train crashes in Ankara, killing at least four
Date: 2018-12-13 05:49:54 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:2 - ID:7712466
ANKARA, Dec 13 (MENA) - At least four people were killed and 43 injured in a high-speed train crash in Ankara, CNBC reported on Thursday, quoting the governor of the capital as having said. The train crashed into an overpass at a train station in ....
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British PM survives confidence vote
Date: 2018-12-12 22:37:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:93 - ID:7712427
LONDON, Dec 13 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Theresa May has won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party by 200 to 117. May is now immune from a leadership challenge for a year, according to a BBC report. Speaking in ....
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Greece slams Strasbourg terrorist attack
Date: 2018-12-12 19:06:43 GMT - Greece - World - SN:82 - ID:7712184
ATHENS, Dec 12 (MENA) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras extended condolences over the victims of the terrorist attack that took place in Strasbourg in France on Tuesday. Tsipras wrote on his Twitter account that democracy will not be ....
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UfM deputy chief says climate action necessary for Euro-Mediterranean region
Date: 2018-12-12 15:18:08 GMT - Spain - World - SN:64 - ID:7711871
BARCELONA, Dec 12 (MENA) - Deputy Secretary General for Energy and Climate Action at the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Jorge Borrego said on Wednesday that climate action is of great importance to the Euro-Mediterranean region ....
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Trump says people will ‘revolt’ if he’s impeached
Date: 2018-12-12 11:38:52 GMT - USA - World - SN:34 - ID:7711377
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (MENA) - President Donald Trump has said that there would be chaos across the country if he were impeached, Politico Magazine reported. “I’m not concerned, no,” the president told reporters about his potential impeachment ....
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Health situation in Afghanistan deteriorating: MSF
Date: 2018-12-12 11:30:50 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:32 - ID:7711382
KABUL, Dec 12 (MENA) - The public health situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, says an international humanitarian organization. The head of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- said in an ....
