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  • US general assumes NATO command in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-09-02 09:10:46 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:7557747

    KABUL, Spet 2 (MENA) - US Army Gen. Austin Miller has assumed command of the 41-nation NATO mission in Afghanistan following a handover ceremony, abc news reported on Sunday. Miller took over Sunday from Gen. John Nicholson, who held the post for ....

  • One killed, 18 injured in Russian plane crash

    Date: 2018-09-01 19:24:35 GMT - Russia - World - SN:54 - ID:7557397

    MOSCOW, Sept 1 (MENA) - Russian transportation minister said a supervisor at Sochi airport has died during an emergency response after a landing plane careered off the end of the runway into a riverbed and caught fire, CBS reported on Saturday. ....

  • 3 arrested for firing bullets at US Embassy in Turkey

    Date: 2018-09-01 18:52:14 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:52 - ID:7557374

    ANKARA, Sept 1 (MENA) – Three people have been arrested for alleged involvement in a drive-by shooting at the US Embassy last month, ABC News reported on Saturday. A court ordered them to be jailed pending trial. Three others who had been ....

  • Bosnian police intercept 50 migrants on cargo train

    Date: 2018-09-01 18:27:29 GMT - Bosnia and Herzegovina - World - SN:50 - ID:7557359

    SARAJEVO, Sept 1 (MENA) - Bosnian police stopped about 50 migrants from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan trying to cross from Serbia in a cargo train overnight on Friday as authorities step up patrols of the border, Euro News reported ....

  • Four Taliban insurgents killed in foreign forces airstrike

    Date: 2018-09-01 10:16:18 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:18 - ID:7556602

    KABUL, Sept 1 (MENA) - At least four Taliban insurgents were killed on Friday night during a foreign forces airstrike in Parwan province, The Afghan Tolo News channel reported on Saturday. According to local officials, the Taliban had planned to ....

  • Ethiopian, Lesotho PMs to attend FOCAC

    Date: 2018-09-01 07:30:14 GMT - China - World - SN:7 - ID:7556333

    BEIJING, Sept 1 (MENA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and Prime Minister of Lesotho Thomas Motsoahae Thabane will start official visits to China from September 1 to 7 to participate in the 2018 Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa ....

  • Ukrainian security service denies involvement in Donetsk leader assassination

    Date: 2018-08-31 20:54:48 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:74 - ID:7556131

    KIEV, Aug 31 (MENA) - Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) denied it was not involved in the explosion in Donetsk, that took away the life of separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko, Tass reported on Friday. "Ukrainian security services don’t ....

  • Children among most vulnerable as extreme weather hits world -- UNICEF

    Date: 2018-08-31 20:51:11 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:73 - ID:7556128

    NEW YORK, Aug 31 (MENA) - The UN children agency has warned that the large number of extreme weather events around the world, including floods in southern India, wildfires in the western United States and heatwaves across much of the northern ....

  • Poland counts WWII damages it wants to seek from Germany

    Date: 2018-08-31 19:29:08 GMT - Poland - World - SN:67 - ID:7556082

    WARSAW, Aug 31 (MENA) - A parliamentary commission in Poland reported Friday that the country lost more than 5 million citizens and over $54 billion dollars (46.6 billion euros) worth of assets under Nazi German occupation during World War II, ABC ....

  • Nicaragua to expel UN team after critical report

    Date: 2018-08-31 17:27:40 GMT - Nicaragua - World - SN:60 - ID:7555970

    MANAGUA, Aug 31 (MENA) - The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is expelling a United Nations human rights team two days after the body published a critical report blaming it for the violent repression of opposition protests, ABC news ....

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