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Stocks, US dollar rise as Trump says US-North Korea summit "really very positive"
Date: 2018-06-12 10:47:57 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:28 - ID:7440860
SINGAPORE, June 12 (MENA) -The dollar jumped to a 3-week top on Tuesday and Asian shares rose as US President Donald Trump said a summit meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un had made "a lot of progress," boosting hopes of a landmark deal to end a ....
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Pompeo due in Seoul this week with outcome of U.S.-N. Korea summit: official
Date: 2018-06-12 09:14:53 GMT - south korea - World - SN:22 - ID:7440772
SEOUL, June 12 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit South Korea this week to personally explain the outcome of the US-North Korea summit to his South Korean counterparts, an official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae ....
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Taliban launch coordinated attack on Moqor district
Date: 2018-06-12 09:12:45 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:21 - ID:7440738
KABUL, June 12 (MENA) - The Taliban militants have launched a coordinated attack on Moqor district in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan on the first day of the ceasefire announced by the Afghan government, Khaama Press reported ....
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Japan launches H-2A rocket carrying intelligence-gathering satellite
Date: 2018-06-12 09:05:03 GMT - Japan - World - SN:20 - ID:7440752
TOKYO, June 12 (MENA) - Japan on Tuesday launched an H-2A rocket carrying a government radar-type intelligence-gathering satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, Kyodo news agency reported. The reconnaissance satellites ....
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Eight soldiers killed, injured in clashes with Taliban in northern Afghanistan
Date: 2018-06-12 07:39:54 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:7440708
KABUL, June 12 (MENA) - At least three Afghan soldiers were killed and five injured in clashes with Taliban elements in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pul, ToloNews reported. Taliban elements opened fire at security check posts in ....
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Paris commuter train overturns leaving seven injured
Date: 2018-06-12 07:27:25 GMT - France - World - SN:15 - ID:7440693
PARIS, June 12 (MENA) - A landslip caused by heavy rains Tuesday led three carriages of a Paris suburban RER train to overturn, slightly injuring seven people, France's transport minister said. "There has been... a landslip on the RER B" between ....
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Moon expresses hope for successful US-N. Korea summit
Date: 2018-06-12 07:24:16 GMT - south korea - World - SN:14 - ID:7440638
SEOUL, June 12 (MENA) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed hope for the success of the historic US-North Korea summit Tuesday, which he said would open a new era of a peaceful, nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, Yonhap reported. "The North ....
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Kim says path to meeting with Trump was not easy
Date: 2018-06-12 07:09:34 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:11 - ID:7440636
SINGAPORE, June 12 (MENA) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has acknowledged that it wasn't an easy path to the meeting with US President Donald Trump in Singapore, Yonhap reported Tuesday. "We have a past that is holding us down and wrong ....
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Russian FM: US completely ruins Minsk agreements
Date: 2018-06-12 07:00:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:10 - ID:7440659
MOSCOW, June 12 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that the ministerial meeting of the Normandy Four [Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France] was very useful, although not all problems were managed to be resolved, TASS news ....
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Trump hails 'excellent relationship' with Kim, turning historic corner 3 last Singapore
Date: 2018-06-12 07:00:06 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:9 - ID:7440628
Trump was asked if he and Kim had talked about denuclearisation and he replied: "We’re starting that process very quickly, very very quickly." "We’re very proud of what took place today," said Trump. "I think our whole relationship with North ....
