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  • UEFA: Salah competes with Ronaldo, Modric for best player in Europe award

    Date: 2018-08-20 14:33:11 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:42 - ID:7541770

    NYON, Aug 20 (MENA) - Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) announced the list of candidates to win the best player in Europe award for 2018. The list included Egyptian international and Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, Portuguese ....

  • Kadyrov: Situation in Chechnya is stable

    Date: 2018-08-20 14:32:09 GMT - Russia - World - SN:41 - ID:7541719

    MOSCOW, Aug 20 (MENA) - Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said that police had disrupted all attempts by militants to commit high-profile crimes in Chechnya. The situation in Chechnya is stable, Sputnik News Agency quoted Kadyrov as saying on ....

  • WHO appeals for $11 million to provide health care to people in northeast Syria

    Date: 2018-08-20 11:02:32 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:24 - ID:7541368

    GENEVA, Aug 20 (MENA) - As the conflict in northwest Syria escalates, WHO is appealing for US$ 11 million to provide life-saving health care to people in parts of Aleppo, Hama, Idleb and Lattakia governorates. Hundreds of thousands of people, ....

  • China mourns passing of former UN chief Kofi Annan

    Date: 2018-08-20 09:22:56 GMT - China - World - SN:17 - ID:7541233

    BEIJING, Aug 20 (MENA) - China expressed its condolences over the passing of former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Monday. Kofi Annan, former UN chief and Nobel Peace Laureate died ....

  • Suicide bomber killed, 4 accomplices arrested in Jalalabad city

    Date: 2018-08-20 08:54:37 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:7541124

    KABUL, Aug 20 (MENA) - A suicide bomber was killed and four of his accomplices were arrested during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence and the National Directorate of Security (NDS), forces in Jalalabad city, Khaama Press reported on ....

  • Taliban militants kidnap 170 passengers from Kunduz

    Date: 2018-08-20 07:08:35 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:8 - ID:7541054

    KABUL, Aug 20 (MENA) - The Taliban militants have kidnapped at least 170 passengers from the highway connecting Kunduz with the northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan, Khaama news agency reported. The Security Director of Kunduz Security ....

  • Unknown gunman attacks US embassy in Turkey

    Date: 2018-08-20 05:35:10 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:2 - ID:7540976

    ANKARA, Aug 20 (MENA) - An unidentified person fired shots at US Embassy in Ankara at around 5:00 am (local time), CNN Turk reported Monday. The fires were reportedly shot from a white vehicle, however, the license plate could not be ....

  • Taliban overrun Faryab’s Balchargh district

    Date: 2018-08-19 14:49:44 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:59 - ID:7540484

    KABUL, Aug 19 (MENA) - The Taliban have captured the Balchargh district of northwestern Faryab province without any resistance from security forces, local official said on Sunday. District Chief Abdul Jameel Sediqui told Pajhwok Afghan News the ....

  • Policeman wounded in magnetic bomb explosion in west Kabul

    Date: 2018-08-19 10:21:56 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:22 - ID:7539972

    KABUL, Aug 19 (MENA) - A policeman sustained injuries in an explosion triggered by a magnetic bomb in west Kabul city, Khaama Press reported. Security sources confirmed that the incident took place in the vicinity of the 18th police district in ....

  • In past 25 years, Russian emergencies ministry helped 140 states hit by various disasters

    Date: 2018-08-19 09:24:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:16 - ID:7539918

    MOSCOW, Aug 19 (MENA) - In the past 25 years, the Russian emergencies ministry has rendered assistance to 140 countries hit by various types of disasters, the ministry said on the occasion of the World Humanitarian Day, celebrated on August 19, TASS ....

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