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  • Powerful earthquake hits Japanese Hokkaido island

    Date: 2018-09-06 06:22:06 GMT - Japan - World - SN:2 - ID:7564350

    TOKYO, Sept 6 (MENA) - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 left residents trapped inside their homes as a landslide blocked roads, engulfed buildings and led to widespread power cuts on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido in the early hours of ....

  • Man arrested after intentionally ramming his truck into Fox building: Police

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:43:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:85 - ID:7564250

    WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (MENA) - A man has been arrested after he intentionally rammed a truck into Dallas FOX 4 news station's building multiple times Wednesday morning, according to the TV station. The man's motive remains unclear and no one inside ....

  • May's statement on Skripal case unacceptable - Russian Foreign Ministry

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:34:38 GMT - Russia - World - SN:84 - ID:7564165

    MOSCOW, Sept 5 (MENA) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement, commenting on UK Prime Minister Theresa May's speech concerning new data on the Skripal case that she delivered to Parliament earlier in the day, Sputnik news agency ....

  • Obama to return to politics in midterm election campaigns

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:30:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:7564181

    NEW YORK, Sept 5 (MENA) - Former US President Barack Obama plans to plunge into the fray of the midterm election campaign in two states. The step is a return to electoral politics with a frontal attack on Republican power in two states that are ....

  • S.Korea PM calls for further expanding relations with China - agency

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:26:12 GMT - south korea - World - SN:82 - ID:7564093

    SEOUL, Sept 5 (MENA) - South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak yon on Wednesday called for further expanding cooperative relations with China, including joint efforts to denuclearize and bring permanent peace to the Korean Peninsula, Yonhap news agency ....

  • District police chief killed in bomb attack in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:19:24 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:81 - ID:7564094

    KABUL, Sept 5 (MENA) - A district police chief has been killed following a Taliban bomb attack in Afghanistan's western province of Badghis, the latest in a string of attacks against officials, Xinhua quoted local police as saying ....

  • Drones downed near Hmeymim base launched from Idlib zone - Russian military

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:13:57 GMT - Russia - World - SN:80 - ID:7564243

    MOSCOW, Sept 5 (MENA) - Two drones destroyed overnight to Tuesday near Russia's Hmeymim airbase in Syria were launched from the Idlib de-escalation zone, Sputnik news agency cited head of Russia's center for Syrian reconciliation Lt. Gen. Vladimir ....

  • Powerful magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits southeast of Japan's Sapporo

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:09:33 GMT - Japan - World - SN:79 - ID:7564249

    TOKYO, Sept 5 (MENA) - A powerful earthquake has rocked the city of Sapporo in northern Japan just hours after large parts of the south of the country were battered by the biggest typhoon to hit in 25 years, according to Express. The Magnitude ....

  • Trust-building is first step in UN Yemen talks, says envoy

    Date: 2018-09-05 22:01:39 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:78 - ID:7563992

    GENEVA, Sept 5 (MENA) - Peace talks between Yemen's warring parties will start by trying to build trust between the two sides, who are both keen to agree prisoner releases, and substance will come later, US News quoted UN Special Envoy Martin ....

  • 22 people missing after boat capsizes in India's northeast

    Date: 2018-09-05 21:33:46 GMT - India - World - SN:75 - ID:7564023

    NEW DELHI, Sept 5 (MENA) - Police were searching Wednesday for 22 people who were missing after a motorized boat capsized in the flooded Brahmaputra River in India's remote northeast. Three bodies were recovered and 11 people were rescued, ABC News ....

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