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UNHCR warns of dangers of illegal Mediterranean crossings
Date: 2019-05-11 13:31:32 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:28 - ID:7937175
GENEVA, May 11 (MENA) - UNHCR Special Envoy for the Mediterranean Vincent Cochetel stressed that the drowning of 65 people off the coast of Tunisia recently is “a tragic and terrible reminder of the risks still faced by those who attempt to cross ....
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Death threats see London Mayor Sadiq Khan given 24-hour police protection
Date: 2019-05-11 13:25:57 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:27 - ID:7937128
LONDON, May 11 (MENA) - London mayor Sadiq Khan has round-the-clock police protection after receiving a deluge of death threats, The Independent reported. The measure was taken after City Hall referred 17 cases to the police in a three-month ....
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Wildfires scorch over 44,000 hectares across Russia
Date: 2019-05-11 12:14:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:23 - ID:7936914
MOSCOW, May 11 (MENA) – Wildfires have scorched over 44,000 hectares in 18 Russian regions, the Federal Aerial Forest Protection Service (Avialesokhrana) said in a statement on Saturday, TASS reported. It added that 155 forest fires had been ....
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Afghan Special Forces conduct operations in 8 provinces leaving 20 Taliban militants dead
Date: 2019-05-11 10:03:11 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:13 - ID:7936911
KABUL, May 11 (MENA) - Afghan Special Forces conducted counter-terrorism operations in eight provinces of the country in the past 24 hours leaving at least 20 Taliban militants dead, Khaama Press reported. Informed military sources said that the ....
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S. Korea to send rice aid to Mideast, Africa
Date: 2019-05-11 07:40:59 GMT - south korea - World - SN:7 - ID:7936733
SEOUL, May 11 (MENA) - South Korea will provide 50,000 tons of rice to four nations in the Middle East and Africa as part of its overseas food aid program, Yonhap quoted the farm ministry as saying. Seoul plans to deliver 19,000 tons of rice to ....
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Pompeo to discuss arms control, Syria, Iran in Russia talks
Date: 2019-05-10 19:34:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:49 - ID:7936473
WASHINGTON, May 10 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head to Russia next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin amid heightened US-Russia tensions over the crisis in Venezuela and the Trump administration’s hardline policy on ....
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Biegun says door remains open for N.K.'s return to nuclear talks
Date: 2019-05-10 18:29:44 GMT - south korea - World - SN:47 - ID:7936396
SEOUL, May 10 (MENA) - US special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun was quoted as saying Friday that the door remains open for North Korea to return to nuclear negotiations, despite Pyongyang's firing of two missiles the previous day. Biegun ....
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Taliban overrun two outposts, 15 soldiers killed
Date: 2019-05-10 16:20:38 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:43 - ID:7936385
KABUL, May 10 (MENA) - An Afghan official says the Taliban have launched an assault on two security outposts in western Badghis province, killing 15 security personnel in the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting the country’s beleaguered ....
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Pompeo to meet with Putin in Russia next week
Date: 2019-05-10 16:04:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:42 - ID:7936275
WASHINGTON, May 10 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Russia early next week to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the US State Department announced Friday. Secretary Pompeo will travel to Sochi, Russia on May 14 ....
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Five taken to hospital after fuel truck hits plane at Toronto Pearson airport
Date: 2019-05-10 16:02:33 GMT - Canada - World - SN:40 - ID:7936363
TORONTO, May 10 (MENA) - Five people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a fuel truck collided with an Air Canada plane on the tarmac at Toronto’s Pearson airport, CTV News reported. The incident happened at around 1:36 a.m. Friday ....
