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  • US Congress renews push to designate Muslim Brotherhood as terror group

    Date: 2018-07-15 11:39:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:36 - ID:7489160

    WASHINGTON, July 15 (MENA) - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have renewed a years-long push to designate the international Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist organization due to its support for terror organizations that threaten US security ....

  • UN: Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit record high in 2018

    Date: 2018-07-15 09:56:22 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:23 - ID:7488930

    NEW YORK, July 15 (MENA) - The United Nations said the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan has reached a record high in the first half of the year, despite last month's cease-fire. Deaths rose 1 percent to 1,692, although injuries dropped 5 ....

  • Twitter suspends Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks accounts after indictments

    Date: 2018-07-15 09:39:12 GMT - USA - World - SN:22 - ID:7489063

    WASHINGTON, July 15 (MENA) - Twitter has suspended two accounts allegedly used by Russian intelligence officers to share information obtained in hacks, The Hill reported on Sunday. The Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks accounts were both suspended on ....

  • 11 Taliban elements killed, injured in clashes with police

    Date: 2018-07-15 08:23:25 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:13 - ID:7488952

    KABUL, July 15 (MENA) - At least eleven Taliban militants were killed and wounded during clashes with police forces in Hesarak district, local officials in Nangarhar province said. The incident took place Friday night in the vicinity of Hesarak ....

  • Trump intends to run for 2020 presidential elections

    Date: 2018-07-15 06:49:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:7488825

    WASHINGTON, July 16 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said in an interview that he intends to run for re-election in the 2020 election, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. When asked by Piers Morgan in an interview given on Friday (July 13) ....

  • 60 killed, injured in Myanmar mine landslide -- media

    Date: 2018-07-14 19:12:57 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:63 - ID:7488620

    NAYPYIDAW, July 14 (MENA) - A landslide killed at least 15 people in northern Myanmar on Saturday, with 45 others injured after the latest disaster in the Hpakant jade mining region, a local official was quoted by Daily Mail as saying. Miners ....

  • Italy rejects boat with 450 migrants on board

    Date: 2018-07-14 15:12:29 GMT - Italy - World - SN:44 - ID:7488317

    ROME, July 14 (MENA) - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said that a boat carrying 450 migrants, now in Maltese-competence waters, can't come to his country as he wrestled with another migrant case that pitted him against President Sergio ....

  • Trump on Russia indictment: Why didn’t Obama do something?

    Date: 2018-07-14 15:00:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:40 - ID:7488194

    WASHINGTON, July 14 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump commented about the indictment of 12 Russian military officers "for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election" by blaming former US president Obama, The Hill reported on ....

  • Britain demands Russia immediately free Ukrainian political prisoners

    Date: 2018-07-14 14:45:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:41 - ID:7488070

    LONDON, July 14 (MENA) - Britain has called on Russia on Saturday to immediately release three Ukrainian political prisoners who declared a hunger strike in Russia jails. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a press release that London ....

  • Two explosions hit heavily fortified zone in Mogadishu

    Date: 2018-07-14 14:32:42 GMT - Somalia - World - SN:39 - ID:7488310

    MOGADISHU, July 14 (MENA) - At least two people were killed and others wounded in a deadly attack in Mogadishu Saturday morning amidst tight security measures imposed by the Federal government of Somalia, Radio Shabelle reported. Today’s assault ....

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