World

  • Service : English General
  • Category : World
  • UN Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2018-03-28 22:57:13 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:124 - ID:7321668

    NEW YORK, March 28 (MENA) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned a barrage of missile attacks against Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi group and expressed grave concern at reports of violations of an UN arms embargo on Houthi ....

  • Russia uses new tactic to limit its casualties in Syria -- report

    Date: 2018-03-28 22:32:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:122 - ID:7321667

    WASHINGTON, March 28 (MENA) - Russia has so successfully avoided war casualties that the world was shocked by the news of several hundred Russian mercenaries killed, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The Kremlin is scrambling to deny the ....

  • US: We won't pay over 25 percent of UN peacekeeping anymore

    Date: 2018-03-28 22:03:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:121 - ID:7321485

    NEW YORK, March 28 (MENA) - The United States is saying it will no longer shoulder more than a quarter of the multibillion-dollar costs of the United Nations' peacekeeping operations, Fox News reported. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said so Wednesday ....

  • Satellite image shows new North Korean reactor -- report

    Date: 2018-03-28 21:59:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:120 - ID:7321517

    NEW YORK, March 28 (MENA) - New satellite evidence has suggested that North Korea is expanding its nuclear power production, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. A satellite image shows a new North Korean reactor that appears to be coming ....

  • Ecuador says cut Assange's internet at embassy

    Date: 2018-03-28 21:41:41 GMT - Ecuador - World - SN:119 - ID:7321484

    QUITO, March 28 (MENA) - Ecuador's government said Wednesday it has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet connection at the nation's London embassy after his recent activity on social media decrying the arrest of a Catalonian ....

  • Pakistan landslide, roof collapse kill 13 people

    Date: 2018-03-28 21:01:15 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:117 - ID:7321203

    ISLAMABAD, March 28 (MENA) - Thirteen people have died in two incidents, a landslide in a northern region and a roof collapse at a warehouse in the south, according to Pakistani officials. Mohammad Tariq, a deputy administrator in the northern ....

  • 4 Afghan commandos killed, 10 wounded in Afghanistan clash

    Date: 2018-03-28 19:49:15 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:112 - ID:7321192

    KABUL, March 28 (MENA) - Four Afghan Special Forces personnel and 10 Taliban insurgents have been killed during a clash in western Farah province in Afghanistan, Pajhwok news agency quoted an official as saying Wednesday. Another 10 security ....

  • Impudent bank robbery reported in Moscow

    Date: 2018-03-28 19:22:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:110 - ID:7321422

    MOSCOW, March 28 (MENA) - Five armed persons in camouflage uniforms attacked a bank in Moscow's Sokolnicheskaya Square and disappeared in a car, which was later found by the police, Sputnik International reported. According to preliminary ....

  • Blast in Italian port kills two men

    Date: 2018-03-28 17:14:46 GMT - Italy - World - SN:102 - ID:7321199

    ROME, March 28 (MENA) - An explosion at an industrial cistern in the Tuscan port of Livorno, one of Italy's biggest passenger and commercial harbors, has killed two people, an official said. The two men had been doing maintenance work on the ....

  • French Embassy in Cairo flies flag at half-mast over Trèbes attack

    Date: 2018-03-28 13:24:03 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:74 - ID:7320759

    CAIRO, March 28 (MENA) - The French Embassy in Cairo flew its flag at half-mast over Trèbes terror attack, which occurred on Friday in Trèbes city in southern France. The embassy's staff stood a moment of silence, honoring Arnaud Beltrame, the ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD