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MENA Agenda for Wednesday, April 3
Date: 2024-04-03 06:31:15 GMT - World Capitals - World - SN:2 - ID:10648491
CAIRO, The Arab League (AL) Council holds an extraordinary session at the level of permanent delegates headed by Mauritania (the Council's current chairman) and at the request of Palestine, with the support of a number of Arab countries, to discuss ....
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More than 50,000 people flee Haiti capital due to rampant gang violence
Date: 2024-04-02 21:39:55 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:99 - ID:10648402
NEW YORK, April 2 (MENA) – More than 50,000 people were displaced from Port-au-Prince within three weeks last month, fleeing an explosion of gang violence in the Haitian capital, France 24 reported. Between March 8 and March 27, 53,125 people ....
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Biden, Xi discuss cooperation, issues of mutual concern over phone
Date: 2024-04-02 20:15:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:90 - ID:10648324
WASHINGTON, April 2 (MENA) - US President Joseph Biden spoke Tuesday with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the phone, their first call since their meeting in Woodside, California, in November 2023. The two leaders ....
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UN reports "unprecedented" violations in Haiti
Date: 2024-04-02 19:13:07 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:87 - ID:10648274
GENEVA, April 2 (MENA) – Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has underlined the necessity to restore public order in Haiti to prevent further harm to the population from violence and to ensure access to lifesaving humanitarian ....
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UK summons Israeli ambassador over Gaza aid worker deaths
Date: 2024-04-02 16:49:43 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:73 - ID:10648162
LONDON, April 2 (MENA) - The UK Foreign Office said it summoned Israel's ambassador after seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed in Gaza, the BBC reported. In a statement, the UK Foreign Office set out the government's ....
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Blinken says US urged Israel to investigate airstrike that killed NGO workers
Date: 2024-04-02 16:09:15 GMT - France - World - SN:71 - ID:10648106
PARIS, April 2 (MENA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said Washington has urged Israel to carry out a swift, thorough and impartial investigation into an Israeli airstrike that killed seven people working for the World Central ....
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Putin vows to punish sponsors of Crocus City Hall attack
Date: 2024-04-02 15:39:03 GMT - Russia - World - SN:69 - ID:10648102
MOSCOW, April 2 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed retribution for those who sponsored the attack on Crocus City Hall, according to TASS News Agency. "It is important for us to expose both the perpetrators and all links in that ....
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Most Poles don't want the euro, poll shows
Date: 2024-04-02 15:20:08 GMT - Poland - World - SN:67 - ID:10648065
WARSAW, April 2 (MENA) - Nearly 70% of Poles do not want their country to join the eurozone, with voters of the conservative PiS the most sceptical according to recent polls. The poll conducted by United Surveys for Wirtualna Polska shows that ....
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Three British aid workers killed in Gaza, World Central Kitchen says
Date: 2024-04-02 15:15:09 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:66 - ID:10648054
LONDON, April 2 (MENA) - Three British aid workers have been killed in Gaza by an Israeli air strike, their charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) told BBC News. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on Israel to "urgently" investigate the ....
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25 killed in fire at Istanbul nightclub during renovation work
Date: 2024-04-02 14:30:21 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:61 - ID:10647985
ISTANBUL, April 2 (MENA) - At least 25 people were killed and several are injured after a fire erupted at a nightclub in Istanbul during renovation work. The blast occurred near a16-story residential building in Istanbul, said Istanbul Governor ....