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11 Taliban militants killed, wounded southern Afghanistan
Date: 2018-07-03 21:37:55 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:104 - ID:7472066
KABUL, July 3 (MENA) - At least seven Taliban militants were killed and four others were wounded in airstrikes conducted by the US forces in southern Helmand province, Khaama Press agency reported on Tuesday. The governor’s office in Helmand in a ....
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Kuwaiti diplomat: Belgian, European companies should boost trade, investment in GCC
Date: 2018-07-03 20:26:35 GMT - Kuwait - World - SN:99 - ID:7472064
KUWAIT CITY-BRUSSELS, July 3 (MENA) - Kuwait's Ambassador to Belgium, EU, NATO, and Luxembourg, Jassem Al-Budaiwi, Tuesday called upon mega European and Belgian companies to look into the opportunities and initiatives available in the Arab Gulf ....
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FMs of Iran, remaining JCPOA parties to meet in Vienna on Friday: IRNA
Date: 2018-07-03 10:54:12 GMT - Iran - World - SN:33 - ID:7471083
TEHRAN, July 3 (MENA) - Foreign ministers of Iran and the five remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal are scheduled to meet in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Friday to discuss ways of maintaining the international accord after the US’s ....
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Malaysia gov't confirms arrest of ex-PM Najib
Date: 2018-07-03 09:44:45 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:20 - ID:7470921
KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (MENA) - Malaysian government investigators have confirmed the arrest of former Prime Minister Najib Razak and said he will be charged in court on Wednesday, ABC news reported. Investigators on a government task force probing ....
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US does not recognize Russia's Crimea annexation, Sanders says
Date: 2018-07-03 07:45:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:7470674
WASHINGTON, July 3 (MENA) - The US doesn’t recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea and won’t lift sanctions related to Moscow’s military incursion into Ukraine until the peninsula is returned, Bloomberg quoted White House Press Secretary Sarah ....
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Afghan official: Bomb targeting NATO tanks kills 2 civilians
Date: 2018-07-03 07:06:40 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:9 - ID:7470684
KABUL, July 3 (MENA) - An Afghan official said a suicide car bombing that targeted a NATO convoy has killed two civilians in eastern Logar province, ABC News reported Tuesday. Shah Poor Ahmadzai, spokesman for the province's police chief, said ....
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Man scouted Cleveland locations for July 4 bomb attack -- FBI
Date: 2018-07-02 22:13:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:119 - ID:7470541
WASHINGTON, July 2 (MENA) - An American-born citizen who federal authorities said recently scouted locations in Cleveland to attack people watching Fourth of July fireworks and talked of carrying out additional bombings has been charged with trying ....
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Attacks in Pakistan kill 6 troops, 2 policemen -- officials
Date: 2018-07-02 21:10:23 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:115 - ID:7470475
ISLAMABAD, July 2 (MENA) - Attacks in Pakistan on Monday killed six members of the country's paramilitary force and two policemen, ABC News reported. In southwestern Baluchistan province, gunmen ambushed a convoy of paramilitary troops and ....
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Over 200 migrants drown in 3 days in Mediterranean, death toll for 2018 passes 1,000
Date: 2018-07-02 16:40:48 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:94 - ID:7469842
Bern, July 2 (MENA) - “There is an alarming increase in deaths at sea off Libya Coast,” said International Organization for Migration (IOM) Libya Chief of Mission Othman Belbeisi. “Smugglers are exploiting the desperation of migrants to leave ....
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4 sites added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Date: 2018-07-02 12:59:40 GMT - France - World - SN:60 - ID:7469552
PARIS- MANAMA, July 2 (MENA) - The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Manama since 24 June under the chair of Shaikha Haya Bint Rashed al Khalifa of Bahrain, today inscribed one mixed, i.e. cultural and natural, site in Mexico, and three natural ....