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  • Man with knife, officer wounded in Berlin cathedral shooting

    Date: 2018-06-03 21:06:29 GMT - Germany - World - SN:52 - ID:7429040

    BERLIN, June 3 (MENA) - Berlin police shot and wounded a 53-year-old Austrian man who yelled and waved a knife inside the cathedral in the center of the German capital Sunday, ABC News reported on Sunday. There was no immediate indication the ....

  • Lavrov: Russia, African Union drafting document on cooperation

    Date: 2018-06-03 19:49:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:48 - ID:7428971

    MOSCOW, June 3 (MENA) - Russia and the African Union are drafting a framework document on cooperation in coming years and an experts' meeting on this issue is planned, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after negotiations with his Rwandan ....

  • Two dead, 2 missing in small plane crash in New York

    Date: 2018-06-03 10:18:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:7428021

    WASHINGTON, June 3 (MENA) - Two people were killed after a small plane carrying four people crashed off the coast of East Hampton, the U.S. Coast Guard was quoted by NBC News as saying. The Piper PA31 aircraft crashed about a mile off the coast ....

  • Two climbers die in fall in California

    Date: 2018-06-03 08:35:30 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:10 - ID:7427882

    LONDON, June 3 (MENA) - Two climbers have died after falling from the El Capitan monolith in Yosemite national park in northern California, The Guardian reported. Jason Wells, 46, and Tim Klien, 42, fell at about 8.15am on Saturday while scaling ....

  • Japan, US, S.Korea defense ministers meet ahead of Trump-Kim summit

    Date: 2018-06-03 08:27:19 GMT - Japan - World - SN:8 - ID:7427860

    TOKYO, June 3 (MENA) - Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera held a meeting with his US and South Korean counterparts in Singapore on Sunday, less than 10 days before the planned June 12 summit between the United States and North Korea in the ....

  • Conservatives protest in Macedonia, demand early election

    Date: 2018-06-02 21:35:51 GMT - Macedonia - World - SN:74 - ID:7427593

    SKOPJE, June 2 (MENA) - Tens of thousands of conservative opposition supporters are protesting outside Macedonia's main government building in the capital of Skopje to demand an early election, ABC News reported Saturday. The VMRO-DPMNE party, ....

  • 7 people killed in storm Alberto flooding in Cuba

    Date: 2018-06-02 21:03:14 GMT - Cuba - World - SN:69 - ID:7427583

    HAVANA, June 2 (MENA) - Heavy flooding caused by Subtropical Storm Alberto killed seven people when it struck Cuba, Civil Defense officials were quoted as saying by France 24 as saying on Saturday. Two people are also missing after the storm ....

  • US citizen killed in Nicaragua amid unrest

    Date: 2018-06-02 20:53:16 GMT - Nicaragua - World - SN:68 - ID:7427584

    MANAGUA, June 2 (MENA) - Nicaraguan authorities said a US citizen has been killed in the streets of Managua as violence and social unrest continue to grip the country's capital, ABC News reported on Saturday. The Legal Medical Institute said that ....

  • 1 killed, 2 injured in Pakistan suicide attack

    Date: 2018-06-02 20:20:08 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:66 - ID:7427547

    ISLAMABAD, June 2 (MENA) - At least two paramilitary personnel were injured in an encounter near a Rangers checkpoint in Pakistan's Hub, the local GEO News quoted a spokesperson for the paramilitary force as saying Saturday. A suspect also blew ....

  • Around 1,000 people battling wildfires in China

    Date: 2018-06-02 19:30:43 GMT - China - World - SN:64 - ID:7427502

    BEIJING, June 2 (MENA) – Nearly 1,000 policemen and fire fighters have been mobilized to battle forest fires in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinhua quoted local fire authorities as saying on Saturday. A fire broke out at around ....

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