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  • Migration 'dangerous' for EU's Christian culture: Orban

    Date: 2018-02-19 21:46:21 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:90 - ID:7254998

    SOFIA, Feb 19 (MENA) - Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has lashed out at Europe's migration policies during visit to Bulgaria. His words come in the run-up to his country's April elections. "We think migration is dangerous to public security, to our ....

  • Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence' - report

    Date: 2018-02-19 21:26:31 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:88 - ID:7254950

    LONDON, Feb 19 (MENA) - A rights monitoring group said Monday the government of Myanmar is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed last year by the military, The Guardian reported. ....

  • Gambia president announces moratorium on death penalty

    Date: 2018-02-19 20:29:22 GMT - The Gambia - World - SN:85 - ID:7254933

    BANJUL, Feb 19 (MENA) – Gambia's president has declared a moratorium on the death penalty, calling it a "first step toward abolition," Voice of America reported on Monday. President Adama Barrow announced the moratorium while addressing a large ....

  • Saudi Arabia condemns terrorist attack on church in Russia

    Date: 2018-02-19 19:14:26 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - World - SN:77 - ID:7254888

    RIYADH, Feb 19 (MENA) - Saudi Arabia expressed on Monday strong condemnation of a shooting at a church in Russia's southern province of Dagestan, the official news agency reported. An official source at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs The ....

  • Putin, Erdogan tackle situation in Syria

    Date: 2018-02-19 18:44:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:76 - ID:7254815

    MOSCOW, Feb 19 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the situation in Syria. Special emphasis was placed on ways of enhancing Astana format ....

  • Iran crashed plane found in mountains, local reports say

    Date: 2018-02-19 12:07:21 GMT - Iran - World - SN:36 - ID:7253859

    TEHRAN, Feb 19 (MENA) - The wreckage of a plane that crashed in Iran on Sunday has been found, the BBC quoted local media as reporting Monday. The Aseman Airlines passenger plane came down in the Zagros mountains on Sunday, and all 66 people on ....

  • Shock figures reveal state of UK’s brutal prisons - report

    Date: 2018-02-18 22:56:19 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:117 - ID:7252973

    LONDON, Feb 18 (MENA) - The scale of the crisis engulfing Britain’s prisons can be revealed, after an Observer investigation found that two-thirds are providing inmates with inadequate conditions or unacceptable treatment. An analysis of hundreds ....

  • May's Brexit transition demand ‘would penalize EU citizens’

    Date: 2018-02-18 22:47:35 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:116 - ID:7252725

    LONDON, Feb 18 (MENA) - UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s demand that EU nationals coming to the UK during a Brexit transition deal should enjoy fewer rights than those already in the country would amount to “penalizing citizens”, Guy Verhofstadt, the ....

  • Trump's anger boils over with Russia probe - report

    Date: 2018-02-18 22:42:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:115 - ID:7252730

    WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump vented his anger with the Russia investigation, declaring that “they are laughing their asses off in Moscow” over the ongoing probe into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election, The Hill ....

  • Avalanche in French Alps kills two skiers

    Date: 2018-02-18 22:40:17 GMT - France - World - SN:114 - ID:7252764

    PARIS, Feb 18 (MENA) - An avalanche swept away two skiers, a man and his 11-year old daughter, who took a closed path in the French Alps on Sunday, Euronews reported. The avalanche happened in Val d’Isere area at an altitude of 3,000 meters, ....

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