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  • 542 deaths due to swine flu reported in India

    Date: 2018-10-23 08:36:31 GMT - India - World - SN:17 - ID:7634310

    NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (MENA) - As many as 542 people have died of swine flu so far this year, with Maharashtra alone accounting for almost 50 percent of fatalities, The Times of India reported. Maharashtra recorded 217 deaths out of 1,793 cases ....

  • Pyongyang Declaration will accelerate denuclearization: S. Korean president

    Date: 2018-10-23 08:35:29 GMT - south korea - World - SN:16 - ID:7634394

    SEOUL, Oct 23 (MENA) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in asserted Tuesday that the inter-Korean agreement reached at the latest South Korea-North Korea summit in Pyongyang will help further accelerate the North's denuclearization process while ....

  • Trump says 'criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in' with migrant caravan

    Date: 2018-10-23 07:47:02 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:7634262

    WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his attacks on the caravan of migrants making their way to the United States from Honduras, calling the situation a national emergency and declaring without evidence that ....

  • 42 Taliban insurgents killed in ANSF operations

    Date: 2018-10-23 07:30:59 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:8 - ID:7634280

    KABUL, Oct 23 (MENA) - The 201 Selab Military Corps in eastern Nangarhar claim that at least 42 armed Taliban insurgents were killed during Afghan national security forces (ANSF) operations, TOLO News reported. The military corps said Tuesday in ....

  • 7 burnt to death as van carrying petrol collides with truck in Mach

    Date: 2018-10-23 06:43:08 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:6 - ID:7634261

    ISLAMABAD, Oct 23 (MENA) - Seven people were killed as a van carrying petrol and a truck collided near Mach in Bolan district of Balochistan, Geo News reported Tuesday. Police officials said the van carrying petrol collided with a truck near the ....

  • Canadian Embassy in Athens attacked with sledgehammers

    Date: 2018-10-21 10:18:00 GMT - Greece - World - SN:20 - ID:7631235

    ATHENS, Oct 21 (MENA) - A group of around 10 people attacked the Canadian Embassy in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri on Sunday morning, using sledgehammers to smash glass on the entrance and throwing red and black paint onto the facade, the ....

  • Roadside bomb blast kills 11 in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-10-21 08:06:46 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:7631032

    KABUL, Oct 21 (MENA) - A roadside bomb has killed at least 11 civilians in Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, officials were quoted by ABC News as saying. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the victims of Sunday's ....

  • Philippine police: Gunmen kill 9 people who occupied farm

    Date: 2018-10-21 05:40:49 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:1 - ID:7630912

    MANILA, Oct 21 (MENA) - Gunmen killed nine members of a farmers' group who occupied part of a privately owned sugarcane plantation in a central Philippine province, police said Sunday. The victims were resting in a hut Saturday night when about ....

  • 27 killed in security incidents on election day in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-10-20 18:05:36 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:54 - ID:7630633

    KABUL, Oct 20 (MENA) – Afghani Minister of Interior Wais Barmak on Saturday said that 192 security incidents had been reported countrywide during the day - as people cast their votes in the long-awaited parliamentary elections, TOLOnews ....

  • Over 15 dead in suicide bombing in Kabul

    Date: 2018-10-20 16:51:35 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:45 - ID:7630453

    KABUL, Oct 20 (MENA) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an area in northern Kabul on Saturday, leaving 15 dead, Sputnik International reported. More than 25 others were wounded in the explosion. There was no immediate claim of ....

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