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  • Italy requests Malta to receive migrant-rescue ship Lifeline

    Date: 2018-06-22 15:22:08 GMT - Italy - World - SN:40 - ID:7454810

    ROME, June 22 (MENA) - The Italian port authority made a formal request for Malta to allow the NGO-run migrant-rescue ship Lifeline to dock at a port on the Mediterranean island, government sources said, ANSA news agency reported on ....

  • Polish local police chief fired over colleague's death

    Date: 2018-06-22 14:44:51 GMT - Poland - World - SN:37 - ID:7454685

    WARSAW, June 22 (MENA) - Poland's Interior Ministry said a regional police chief and one of his deputies have been fired after they attended a party during which a senior anti-terrorist investigator fell from a window and died, ABC News reported on ....

  • Putin vows to continue contributing to Korean Peninsula settlement

    Date: 2018-06-22 14:39:45 GMT - Russia - World - SN:36 - ID:7454718

    MOSCOW, June 22 (MENA) - Moscow has been contributing to efforts to resolve the Korean Peninsula issue and will continue doing that, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in, TASS news agency ....

  • US arrests Chinese citizen accused of smuggling anti-submarine devices to China

    Date: 2018-06-22 13:22:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:29 - ID:7454653

    WASHINGTON, June 22 (MENA) - US Authorities said a Chinese national has been charged with conspiring with a Chinese military research institute to illegally export US goods used in anti-submarine warfare to China, ABC news reported on ....

  • Daesh chief among four terrorists killed in India's Anantnag

    Date: 2018-06-22 12:42:05 GMT - India - World - SN:25 - ID:7454638

    NEW DELHI, June 22 (MENA) - Four terrorists, including the head of the Daesh group in Jammu and Kashmir were killed during a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district today, the Times of India quoted the police as ....

  • US imposes visa bans on several unnamed Congo officials

    Date: 2018-06-22 12:39:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:7454605

    WASHINGTON, June 22 (MENA) - The United States has announced visa bans on several senior Congolese officials and family members for their involvement in "significant corruption" related to Congo's electoral process, ABC News reported. The US ....

  • North, South Korea agree on reunions of war-split families

    Date: 2018-06-22 12:34:57 GMT - south korea - World - SN:23 - ID:7454615

    SEOUL, June 22 (MENA) - North and South Korea agreed to hold temporary reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War as they boost reconciliation efforts amid a diplomatic push to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, ABC news reported ....

  • 9 militants killed in US airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-06-22 09:54:58 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:7454359

    KABUL, June 22 (MENA) - At least nine militants, including a Pakistani national, have been killed in two drone strikes in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, Khaama Press news agency reported Friday. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military ....

  • US VP, Afghan president discuss Trump’s South Asia strategy

    Date: 2018-06-22 09:35:27 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:7454311

    KABUL, June 22 (MENA) - US Vice President Mike Pence and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani have discussed the security situation in Afghanistan, including the Eid ceasefire with Taliban movement, Pajhwok news agency reported Friday. Pence spoke with ....

  • US ready to support direct negotiations between Afghan gov't, Taliban

    Date: 2018-06-21 22:45:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:105 - ID:7453813

    WASHINGTON, June 21 (MENA) - Ambassador Alice Wells, the US senior bureau official for South and Central Asian Affairs, has said the United States government is prepared to support, facilitate, and participate in direct negotiations between the ....

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