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Typhoon hits southwestern Japan; 130 flights canceled
Date: 2019-08-06 07:13:35 GMT - Japan - World - SN:14 - ID:8053902
TOKYO, Aug 6 (MENA) - A strong typhoon made landfall on Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu early Tuesday morning, leaving some people injured and disrupting transportation, Kyodo news agency reported. After touching down in Miyazaki city ....
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Heavy rain leaves 8 dead, 8 missing in central China
Date: 2019-08-06 07:12:05 GMT - China - World - SN:13 - ID:8053895
BEIJING, Aug 6 (MENA) - Eight people have been killed and eight others remain missing amid heavy downpours and floods in central China's Hubei Province, Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying on Tuesday. Heavy rain hit ....
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6 dead, 11 injured in fire at building in Southeast Delhi
Date: 2019-08-06 07:04:33 GMT - India - World - SN:12 - ID:8053893
NEW DELHI, Aug 6 (MENA) - Six people, including two children, have died and 11 injured in a fire that broke out at a residential building in southeast Delhi late last night, NDTV reported. The blaze in the four-storey building in Zakir Nagar, a ....
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Taliban suffers heavy casualties in outskirts of Ghazni city
Date: 2019-08-06 07:03:13 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:11 - ID:8053885
KABUL, Aug 6 (MENA) - The Afghan forces have inflicted heavy casualties on Taliban militants in the outskirts of the provincial capital of Ghazni province, Khaama Press reported Tuesday. The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the security ....
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Trump announces total economic embargo against Venezuela
Date: 2019-08-06 06:55:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:8053845
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump on Monday announced the US would expand its existing sanctions against Venezuela with an executive order to impose a total economic embargo against the country, CNN reported. The embargo ....
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Cheong Wa Dae convenes emergency meeting on N. Korea's rocket launch
Date: 2019-08-06 06:50:10 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:8053862
SEOUL, Aug 6 (MENA) - Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday it's holding an emergency meeting of security-related ministers to discuss North Korea's latest launch of unidentified projectiles, Yonhap news agency reported. Chung Eui-yong, head of the national ....
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N. Korea fires unidentified projectiles into East Sea: JCS
Date: 2019-08-06 06:48:59 GMT - south korea - World - SN:7 - ID:8053870
SEOUL, Aug 6 (MENA) - North Korea fired unidentified projectiles into the East Sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, in an apparent show of force against the ongoing joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington, Yonhap news agency ....
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Texas shooting death toll rises to 22 -- media
Date: 2019-08-05 18:37:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:86 - ID:8053478
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (MENA)- Twenty two people were killed and more than two dozen were injured in a mass shooting at an El Paso shopping center on Saturday in Taxes, CNN reported on Monday. It was one of three major mass shootings across the US in ....
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NATO chief urges int'l community to stop resurgence of white nationalism
Date: 2019-08-05 13:12:22 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:58 - ID:8052884
WELLINGTON, Aug 5 (MENA) - Nations must work together to stop lone wolf attackers, who take inspiration from each other, NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday, Euronews reported. Stoltenberg, making a two-day trip to New ....
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State of emergency over flooding declared in Russia’s Khabarovsk Region
Date: 2019-08-05 12:27:31 GMT - Russia - World - SN:48 - ID:8052754
MOSCOW, Aug 5 (MENA) - A state of emergency has been declared in the entire Khabarovsk Region of Russia, Tass News Agency reported, quoting Governor Sergei Furgal as saying at a regional government meeting on Monday. A state of emergency was ....
