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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • Faster help needed for displaced refugees in Sri Lanka - UNHCR

    Date: 2019-05-10 15:01:36 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:36 - ID:7936277

    GENEVA, May 10 (MENA) - Almost three weeks on from the devastating Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency remains extremely concerned both at the impact this has had on Sri Lankans themselves and by the continuing situation ....

  • Three hurt after plane collides with fuel truck at Toronto airport

    Date: 2019-05-10 14:27:08 GMT - Canada - World - SN:32 - ID:7936260

    OTTAWA, May 10 (MENA) - An aircraft with 50 passengers on board collided with a fuel truck at Canada's busiest airport early Friday, Euronews reported Friday. The incident occurred as an Air Canada Jazz plane was taxiing on the apron at Toronto ....

  • N. Korea says it conducted long-range strike drills under oversight of leader Kim

    Date: 2019-05-10 08:22:41 GMT - south korea - World - SN:11 - ID:7935733

    SEOUL/PYONGYANG, May 10 (MENA) - North Korea has conducted long-range strike drills, Yonhap news agency quoted state media as reporting on Friday, a day after the communist state launched what were presumed to be two short-range missiles into the ....

  • Trump to nominate Shanahan as defense secretary - White House

    Date: 2019-05-09 21:49:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:80 - ID:7935600

    WASHINGTON, May 9 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump plans to nominate Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing Co executive, as his defense secretary, the White House said on Thursday, breaking with tradition by choosing someone who made a career at a top ....

  • US joins Japan, India in show of force in South China Sea

    Date: 2019-05-09 20:37:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:77 - ID:7935545

    WASHINGTON, May 9 (MENA) - The US Navy said Thursday that it joined warships from India, Japan and the Philippines in a show of force in the South China Sea. While the US frequently conducts exercises in the contested region, this multilateral ....

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