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  • US Air Force plan to deploy Ospreys in Japan

    Date: 2018-04-05 16:23:04 GMT - Japan - World - SN:72 - ID:7335667

    TOKYO, April 5 (MENA) - The US Air Force is to officially deploy CV-22 Osprey aircraft at its Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo in a few months, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday. The deployment would be the first of ....

  • French, Malian troops kill dozens of insurgents in Mali gun battle

    Date: 2018-04-05 16:17:56 GMT - France - World - SN:69 - ID:7335659

    PARIS, April 5 (MENA) - French and Malian troops killed about 30 extremist insurgents during a gunbattle in a region near the border with Niger, where Daesh is known to be active, the French army said Thursday. West Africa's arid Sahel region has ....

  • Expelled US diplomats leave Russia

    Date: 2018-04-05 06:52:54 GMT - Russia - World - SN:3 - ID:7334424

    MOSCOW, April 5 (MENA) - The US diplomats expelled from Russia left the building of the US diplomatic mission in Moscow in the small hours on Thursday, according to TASS. Earlier reports said they were ordered to leave the country by April ....

  • Trump to deploy National Guard to southern border

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:57:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:103 - ID:7334275

    WASHINGTON, April 4 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump will sign an order to deploy National Guard troops to the US southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Wednesday, the Hill reported. Speaking at the White ....

  • Facebook chief to testify before house panel on April 11

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:53:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:102 - ID:7334043

    WASHINGTON, April 4 (MENA) - Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, the chairman and top Democrat on that committee announced Wednesday, Bloomberg ....

  • Russia interested in meeting between Putin, Trump — senior diplomat

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:49:04 GMT - Russia - World - SN:101 - ID:7334029

    MOSCOW, April 4 (MENA) - Moscow is interested in a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump and will seek to persuade Washington of the need to arrange it, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov ....

  • Normal relations with Turkey do not affect ties with Cyprus, Russian ambassador says

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:46:30 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:100 - ID:7334036

    NICOSIA, April 4 (MENA) - At this moment, Russia is entering the state of smooth relations with Turkey, but this does not affect Moscow’s relations with Cyprus and its positions on the Cyprus problem, Russian Ambassador in Nicosia Stanislav Osadchiy ....

  • Greek minister says country to send 7,000 service members to borders with Turkey

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:43:58 GMT - Greece - World - SN:99 - ID:7334039

    ATHENS, April 4 (MENA) - Greece's defense minister announced that he has ordered additional military personnel to move to islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. Minister Panos Kammenos said 7,000 service members from the armed forces were being moved ....

  • Sweden: Man held after fire breaks out at Portuguese Embassy

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:42:08 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:98 - ID:7334035

    STOCKHOLM, April 4 (MENA) - Police in Sweden say they have detained a man in his 50s who is suspected of arson at the Portuguese Embassy in Stockholm, ABC News reported. A large fire broke out shortly before noon Wednesday in a downtown ....

  • Belgium's FM regrets Russia’s decision to expel Belgian diplomat

    Date: 2018-04-04 22:26:23 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:96 - ID:7334032

    BRUSSELS, April 4 (MENA) - Foreign Minister of Belgium Didier Reynders has expressed his regret over the Russian authorities’ decision to expel one of the Belgium diplomats as a response to an earlier expulsion of a Russian diplomat from Belgium, ....

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