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  • Don't scrap Iran deal, MPs from UK, Franceو Germany urge US

    Date: 2018-04-19 19:47:11 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:86 - ID:7359696

    LONDON, April 19 (MENA) - More than 500 parliamentarians from France, Germany and the UK have written to their US counterparts urging them to persuade US President Donald Trump not to abandon the Iran nuclear deal. In a joint statement published ....

  • 2 die in light airplane crash in Northern Ireland

    Date: 2018-04-19 19:28:16 GMT - Ireland - World - SN:84 - ID:7359723

    BELFAST, April 19 (MENA) - Police of North Ireland said two people have died in the crash of a light airplane in Northern Ireland, Fox News reported on Friday. Police said Thursday the airplane crashed near Belfast International Airport. The Air ....

  • Koreas to open hotline between leaders Friday

    Date: 2018-04-19 18:00:55 GMT - south korea - World - SN:77 - ID:7359533

    SEOUL, April 19 (MENA) – The two Koreas will open a direct telephone line between the countries' leaders on Friday ahead of their summit set for April 27, Yonhap News quoted Seoul's presidential office as saying on Thursday. "The hotline between ....

  • 3 former US Army soldiers convicted in contract killing ordered by international crime boss

    Date: 2018-04-19 17:27:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:75 - ID:7359482

    WASHINGTON, April 19 (MENA) - Three former American soldiers were found guilty Wednesday for the murder-for-hire of a female real estate agent in the Philippines whom an international crime boss accused of cheating him in a land deal, Fox News ....

  • Russia recommends UK holding off from destroying evidence on Skripal case

    Date: 2018-04-19 16:23:53 GMT - Russia - World - SN:72 - ID:7359390

    MOSCOW, April 19 (MENA) - Russia expects to receive comprehensive answers from both the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UK on the poisoning case of former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, Russian Foreign Ministry ....

  • UK intelligence could be used for unlawful drone strikes, warns Amnesty

    Date: 2018-04-19 16:22:58 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:70 - ID:7359386

    LONDON, April 19 (MENA) - The UK risks violating international law through its support of lethal US drone strikes around the world, including sharing intelligence to help identify targets and the use of RAF bases, according to a report by Amnesty ....

  • Man believed to be the world's oldest dies in Chile

    Date: 2018-04-19 16:18:05 GMT - Chile - World - SN:68 - ID:7359383

    SANTIAGO, April 19 (MENA) - A Chilean man believed to be the world’s oldest person has died in hospital at the age of 121. Celino Villanueva Jaramillo, whom the Guardian met and interviewed last year, died on Wednesday in the southern Chilean ....

  • Western coalition aimed to give terrorists break by striking Syria Moscow

    Date: 2018-04-19 16:16:24 GMT - Russia - World - SN:67 - ID:7359179

    MOSCOW, April 19 (MENA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the real aim of the recent missile launches by the US, the UK and France was to give terrorists a break, Sputnik News reported. "We've found confirmations that the real aim ....

  • India interested in building water dams in Kabul and Kapisa

    Date: 2018-04-19 16:15:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:66 - ID:7359381

    KABUL, April 19 (MENA) - Officials in the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) said that the government of India is interested in helping Afghanistan in building two new water dams in Kapisa and Kabul provinces. The Director of the Public ....

  • Shallow Indonesia quake kills 3, damages hundreds of homes

    Date: 2018-04-19 16:14:14 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:65 - ID:7359377

    JAKARTA, April 19 (MENA) - A shallow earthquake in central Indonesia has killed three people and damaged more than 300 homes, disaster officials said Thursday as they declared a two-week emergency for the affected areas. Indonesia’s Meteorology ....

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