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  • 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 ....

  • Catalan leader calls for talks with Spain's new PM

    Date: 2018-06-02 19:15:16 GMT - Spain - World - SN:61 - ID:7427496

    MADRID, June 2 (MENA) - Catalonia's separatist president Quim Torra called for talks with Spain's new prime minister as the Catalan regional executive was sworn in at an emotional ceremony full of pro-independence symbolism, local media reported on ....

  • 6.2-magnitude quake hits off Tonga: USGS

    Date: 2018-06-02 18:43:08 GMT - Hong Kong - World - SN:58 - ID:7427472

    HONG KONG, June 2 (MENA) - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted 128km north-northeast of Hihifo, Tonga at 1153 GMT on Saturday, Xinhua reported, citing a statement by the US Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was ....

  • Global(1): GAC Motor Delivers 150 GA3Ss to Police Force of Nigeria

    Date: 2018-06-02 16:51:55 GMT - Nigeria - World - SN:55 - ID:7427428

    Dear subscribers, following is a global bulletin published for PR ‎Newswire:‎ Breakthrough in Nigeria paves the way for accelerated growth in African market ABUJA, Nigeria, June 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GAC Motor has officially delivered ....

  • Talks underway to help Soviet pilot downed in Afghanistan in 1987 return to Russia - MP

    Date: 2018-06-02 16:51:32 GMT - Russia - World - SN:54 - ID:7427373

    MOSCOW, June 2 (MENA) - Russia is in talks with US representatives to confirm media reports that a Soviet pilot, who went missing in Afghanistan in 1987 after his plane was shot down, has been found and that he wants to come back home, Russian MP ....

  • 16 hurt as Mali opposition, security forces clash in march

    Date: 2018-06-02 16:05:03 GMT - Mali - World - SN:49 - ID:7427357

    BAMAKU, June 2 (MENA) - An organizer says 16 people have been injured in clashes between Mali's security forces and opposition supporters during a prohibited march ahead of elections, Fox News reported Saturday. Cheick Diallo says the injured ....

  • America's poor becoming more destitute under Trump - UN official

    Date: 2018-06-02 15:53:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:46 - ID:7427346

    NEW YORK, June 2 (MENA) - UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said Saturday poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from ....

  • 16 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan clashes

    Date: 2018-06-02 15:53:40 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:45 - ID:7427315

    KABUL, June 2 (MENA) - Up to 16 Taliban militants were killed in clashes with a convoy of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), in western Farah province, the local Khaama Press reported Saturday. According to a ....

  • Indian PM meets US secretary of defense

    Date: 2018-06-02 15:07:26 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:42 - ID:7427297

    SINGAPORE, June 2 (MENA) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Saturday US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Singapore and discussed security-related issues, days after the Pentagon renamed its Pacific Command as Indo-Pacific Command in a largely ....

  • Hundreds killed, injured in Afghanistan in May

    Date: 2018-06-02 14:44:34 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:41 - ID:7427247

    KABUL, June 2 (MENA) - More than 500 civilians were killed and injured last month in 23 provinces of Afghanistan, demonstrating that parties to the conflict had paid no attention to the control civilian casualties, a statement from the Civilian ....

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