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Finnish president accepts PM's resignation
Date: 2019-03-08 12:45:18 GMT - Finland - World - SN:30 - ID:7838642
HELSINKI, March 8 (MENA) - Finland's President Sauli Niinisto accepted Prime Minister Juha Sipila's resignation, ABC News reported. The Finnish premier's center-right government resigned Friday after the governing coalition failed to agree on ....
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Finnish government resigns for failure to achieve reform
Date: 2019-03-08 09:09:12 GMT - Finland - World - SN:21 - ID:7838354
HELSINKI, March 8 (MENA) - Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila resigned after the government’s project, the health and social care reform, collapsed in parliament just weeks before general elections. Sipila met President Sauli Niinisto in ....
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Death toll rises to 11 in attack on Afghan politicians gathering
Date: 2019-03-08 09:03:41 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:20 - ID:7838344
KABUL, March 8 (MENA) - The death toll rose to 11 in the attack on a gathering of Afghan politicians and hundreds of their supporters in the west of Kabul on Thursday, the Ministry of Interior confirmed on Friday. The ceremony, which was held to ....
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Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan military operations
Date: 2019-03-08 07:58:32 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:12 - ID:7838241
KABUL, March 8 (MENA) - Scores of Taliban militants including one of their commanders were killed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and airstrikes which were conducted in the past 24 hours, reported Khaama press news agency on ....
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Iranian-Briton to get diplomatic protection
Date: 2019-03-08 07:53:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:11 - ID:7838233
LONDON, March 8 (MENA) - Jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will be given diplomatic protection by Britain, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. It means the case will now be treated as a formal, legal dispute between the ....
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Venezuela rejects EU plea to reconsider expulsion of German ambassador
Date: 2019-03-08 07:44:02 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:10 - ID:7838221
CARACAS, March 8 (MENA) - President Nicolas Maduro’s government ruled out a change of heart on its expulsion of the German ambassador Thursday after the European Union urged it to reconsider. Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza wrote on Twitter that ....
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US urges UN to impose new sanctions on Iran
Date: 2019-03-08 06:25:44 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:8 - ID:7838156
NEW YORK, March 8 (MENA) - The United States urged the UN Security Council on Thursday to impose new sanctions on Iran, saying its recent missile-related launches could be capable of delivering nuclear weapons and risk a regional arms race, reported ....
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Ex-Trump campaign chief jailed for fraud
Date: 2019-03-08 06:19:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:7838150
WASHINGTON, March 8 (MENA) - President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud. He was convicted last year of hiding millions of dollars of income earned by his ....
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Frenchman found guilty of killing four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels
Date: 2019-03-07 21:36:13 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:86 - ID:7838028
BRUSSELS, March 7 (MENA) - A French citizen has been found guilty of murdering four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum in May 2014, Euronews reported. Mehdi Nemmouche shot two Israeli tourists dead, a volunteer worker and a receptionist. He ....
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Daesh claims attack on Shiite memorial service in Kabul
Date: 2019-03-07 15:45:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:67 - ID:7837382
KABUL, March 7 (MENA) - An outdoor memorial service attended by numerous Afghan politicians and officials, including former president Hamid Karzai, was attacked by mortar fire in the Afghan capital, killing three people, police said. The attack ....
