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UN Syria envoy to step down in November
Date: 2018-10-17 17:42:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:7626669
NEW YORK, Oct 17 (MENA) - UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura announced on Wednesday that he will step down in November. After serving in the key post for over four years, Mistura said told the UN Security Council that he'll be leaving at the end ....
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Germany probes Islamist motive in Cologne attack
Date: 2018-10-17 17:31:41 GMT - Germany - World - SN:94 - ID:7626662
BERLIN, Oct 17 (MENA) - German prosecutors have suggested that a Syrian man may have acted on extremist sympathies when he staged the hostage taking at the city of Cologne's central train stations earlier this week, DW News reported on Wednesday. ....
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Greek FM resigns after disagreement on changing Macedonia's name
Date: 2018-10-17 15:19:38 GMT - Greece - World - SN:84 - ID:7626401
ATHENS, Oct 17 (MENA) - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias resigned Wednesday following a disagreement with the defense minister over the handling of a recent deal which would change Macedonia's name in exchange for Greece dropping its objections ....
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At least 18 dead, 40 injured in bomb, shooting attack by student at college in Crimea: Officials
Date: 2018-10-17 15:18:11 GMT - Russia - World - SN:83 - ID:7626404
MOSCOW, Oct 17 (MENA) - At least 18 people, most of them young, were killed and over 40 injured in a bomb and shooting attack at a college in Crimea that local officials said was carried out by a student. The attack occurred at a state ....
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UN: One person in nine does not have enough to eat
Date: 2018-10-17 13:29:49 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:61 - ID:7626110
CAIRO, Oct 17 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres uncovered on Wednesday that one person in nine does not have enough to eat. About 820 million people still suffer from hunger with most of them are women, according to the UN chief's ....
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Trump threatens to cut US aid to three central countries over immigration
Date: 2018-10-17 10:52:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:35 - ID:7625639
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to cut aid to three Central American nations if they let people travel to the U.S. illegally, reacting to a caravan of some 2,000 migrants advancing through Guatemala with ....
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Election candidate killed in Helmand blast
Date: 2018-10-17 08:10:28 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:15 - ID:7625405
KABUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - Election candidate Jabar Qahraman from southern Helmand province was killed in an explosion at his office on Wednesday morning, TOLO News channel quoted local officials as saying. In addition, seven other people were ....
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Afghanistan candidate killed in blast in campaign office
Date: 2018-10-17 07:05:16 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:7 - ID:7625360
KABUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - Jabar Qahraman, an election candidate in the southern province in Afghanistan, was killed in his campaign office on Wednesday after explosives kept under his sofa blew up, Khaama Press reported. The Taliban claimed ....
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IMF chief delays trip to Middle East
Date: 2018-10-17 06:12:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:7625292
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (MENA) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde postponed her trip to the Middle East region including Saudi Arabia, The Hill reported. “The Managing Director’s previously scheduled trip to the Middle East ....
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Taliban capture Ghazni's Andar district, Afghan MoD denies
Date: 2018-10-16 07:31:51 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:13 - ID:7623591
KABUL, Oct 16 (MENA) - The Taliban have captured Andar district of Ghazni province in the south of Afghanistan. Their spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Pajhwok that the fighters had captured the district police headquarters and the military ....
