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  • UK fighter jets intercept Russian bombers approaching UK airspace

    Date: 2018-09-21 13:26:26 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:31 - ID:7586176

    LONDON, Sept 21 (MENA) - RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft were scrambled to monitor two Russian planes approaching UK airspace, the British Ministry of Defense has said in a statement on its website. "Russian bombers probing UK airspace is another ....

  • S. Korean president heads for NY on Sunday

    Date: 2018-09-21 07:27:01 GMT - south korea - World - SN:10 - ID:7585728

    SEOUL, Sept 21 (MENA) - President Moon Jae-in will head on Sunday for New York to meet with US President Donald Trump. The meeting will take up denuclearization efforts in the Korean Peninsula, according to Yonhap news agency. The president ....

  • Vietnamese president dies after serious illness

    Date: 2018-09-21 06:32:20 GMT - Vietnam - World - SN:3 - ID:7585670

    HANOI, Sept 21 (MENA) - President Tran Dai Quang died on Friday at the age of 61 after a prolonged and serious illness, state media reported. He passed away from a serious illness despite devoted treatment by professors and doctors both in ....

  • UNGA takes up Iranian role undermining stability in region -- US envoy

    Date: 2018-09-21 06:26:54 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:2 - ID:7585665

    NEW YORK, Sept 21 (MENA) - US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley has said that the UN General Assembly meetings that will be held next week will take up the Iranian role undermining stability in the region. In statement to the US al Hurra ....

  • White House announces new strategy for cyber security

    Date: 2018-09-20 22:14:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:85 - ID:7585602

    WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump has signed a new National Cyber Strategy document authorizing offensive cyberattacks against foreign targets, the White House announced Thursday. US National Security Adviser John Bolton told ....

  • White House: Trump to meet Sisi, five world leaders next week

    Date: 2018-09-20 20:42:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:78 - ID:7585577

    WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump will meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and a number of world leaders next week, Al Hurra News Channel reported quoting the White House's statement on Thursday. The statement ....

  • US added 33 Russian officials to sanction list after treasury receives new powers

    Date: 2018-09-20 19:53:31 GMT - USA - World - SN:74 - ID:7585503

    WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (MENA) - The United States has added 33 people and entities to its Russian defense and intelligence sector blacklist, meaning that anyone who does business with them will face mandatory US sanctions under the Countering America's ....

  • Russia in talks with US on evacuating refugees from Syrian camp

    Date: 2018-09-20 17:30:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:65 - ID:7585320

    MOSCOW, Sept 20 (MENA) - Russia’s Foreign Ministry is closely working with the United States on evacuating refugees from the Syrian camp Rukban bordering Jordan to the territory controlled by the Damascus government, the ministry’s representative ....

  • 3 killed in shooting at Maryland, US

    Date: 2018-09-20 16:44:25 GMT - USA - World - SN:63 - ID:7585290

    WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (MENA) - A shooter killed three people and wounded two others Thursday at a drugstore distribution center in Harford County, Maryland, officials said. A law enforcement official who had been briefed on the incident provided ....

  • US says VW to leave Iran in symbolic win for Trump

    Date: 2018-09-20 11:14:08 GMT - Germany - World - SN:32 - ID:7584530

    BERLIN, Sept 20 (MENA) - The Trump administration persuaded Volkswagen AG to comply with sanctions on Iran and end almost all of its business in the country, according to a US official, a symbolically charged step in undercutting European Union ....

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