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UK to leave EU leave on March 29 - May
Date: 2018-09-30 20:10:08 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:76 - ID:7600329
LONDON, Sept 30 (MENA) - UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday his country will leave the European Union on March 29, 2019. "We had the people's vote in June 2016," May told The Sun. Speaking ahead of the Conservative Party conference in ....
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Israel frees French-Palestinian lawyer held without charge for 13 months
Date: 2018-09-30 19:50:09 GMT - palestine - World - SN:75 - ID:7600294
GAZA CITY, Sept 30 (MENA) - Israel on Sunday released a French-Palestinian lawyer held without charge for the past 13 months over unspecified allegations, France 24 quoted his lawyer as saying. Salah Hamouri, 33, was freed at Jerusalem police ....
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Greece urges Turkey to refrain from aggression in Aegean Sea
Date: 2018-09-30 19:48:17 GMT - Greece - World - SN:74 - ID:7600293
ATHENS, Sept 30 (MENA) - A Greek top military official has urged Turkey to abstain from actions that violate the country’s sovereign rights in the Aegean Sea, the Greek Ekathimerini newspaper reported Sunday. During a meeting held on the ....
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Spain rescues 466 people crossing Mediterranean
Date: 2018-09-30 13:53:40 GMT - Spain - World - SN:50 - ID:7599755
MADRID, Sept 30 (MENA) – Spain's maritime rescue service said it has saved 466 migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to European shores, ABC News reported on Sunday. The service said its rescue ....
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The answer in Afghanistan is reconciliation: Miller
Date: 2018-09-30 09:21:49 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:20 - ID:7599127
KABUL, Sept 30 (MENA) - The US and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission Commander in Afghanistan Gen. Austin S. Miller said that the simple question that “why are we here?” evinces a lot of different answers as he defined the presence of the coalition ....
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Indonesia quake, tsunami death toll rises to 832
Date: 2018-09-30 09:15:27 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:19 - ID:7599142
JAKARTA, Sept 30 (MENA) - The death toll in Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami has climbed to 832, NBC News reported, quoting the country's disaster agency as saying on Sunday. Many people were reported trapped in rubble of buildings brought down ....
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Two police officers killed in shootout in Mississippi
Date: 2018-09-30 09:03:22 GMT - USA - World - SN:17 - ID:7599129
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (MENA) - Two police officers were killed in a shootout early Saturday in Brookhaven, Mississippi, CNN reported quoting a state official as saying. The officers, identified as Cpl. Zach Moak, 31, and Patrolman James White, 35, ....
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Iran airs video of close encounter with US aircraft carrier
Date: 2018-09-29 21:57:12 GMT - Iran - World - SN:64 - ID:7598885
TEHRAN, Sept. 29 (MENA) - Iran's state TV has broadcast footage purporting to show a close encounter between the Revolutionary Guard's navy and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The incident purportedly happened in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the ....
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Trump orders FBI investigation into Kavanaugh's sex assault claim
Date: 2018-09-29 21:56:34 GMT - USA - World - SN:63 - ID:7598869
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (MENA) - The FBI has requested an interview with Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to come forward with an allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, her attorney said on Saturday. The ....
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Canada delays UN speech to focus on NAFTA
Date: 2018-09-29 20:26:57 GMT - Canada - World - SN:60 - ID:7598851
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (MENA) - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland postponed her country's 2018 address to the United Nations General Assembly so she could focus on ongoing trade talks with the United States, the government was quoted by ....