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4 killed after truck rear-end cars in Germany
Date: 2018-02-12 20:58:04 GMT - Germany - World - SN:99 - ID:7242517
BERLIN, Feb 12 (MENA) - Four people were killed after a truck struck two cars on a German highway, pushing the smaller vehicles under another tractor-trailer, ABC news reported. Mannheim police said the incident happened Monday afternoon on the ....
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Ukraine deports ex-Georgia president to Poland
Date: 2018-02-12 19:51:43 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:97 - ID:7242496
KIEV, Feb 12 (MENA) - Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been deported to Poland, Ukraine's border service said. An official in the Ukrainian ministry of interior said Saakashvili was detained in Kiev, the BBC News ....
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Drone shot down by Israel was Iranian copy of US craft -- paper
Date: 2018-02-12 19:45:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:7242482
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (MENA) - The drone that Israel said it shot down this weekend appeared to have been developed by Iran from technology obtained when it captured a US stealth aircraft in 2011, according to aviation experts and Israeli ....
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Abbas asserts US no more sole mediator in Mideast talks
Date: 2018-02-12 19:42:52 GMT - Russia - World - SN:94 - ID:7242466
MOSCOW, Feb 12 (MENA) - Palestine does not want the United States to be the sole mediator in the Middle East negotiations, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Monday. "In this current atmosphere created by the actions of the United States, we ....
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Britain accuses Barclays bank over Qatar loan
Date: 2018-02-12 19:00:05 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:91 - ID:7242406
LONDON, Feb 12 (MENA) - Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Barclays Bank over the lender’s emergency fundraising from Qatar during the financial crisis a decade ago, The Guardian reported Monday. Barclays Bank’s parent company, ....
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India: Pakistan-based group behind attack in Kashmir
Date: 2018-02-12 18:55:12 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:89 - ID:7242373
NEW DELHI, Feb 12 (MENA) - India's defense minister said Monday that gunmen belonging to the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed were behind a weekend attack on an army camp in Indian-controlled Kashmir, and warned Islamabad that it ....
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22 injured in two-train collision in Austria
Date: 2018-02-12 18:51:07 GMT - Austria - World - SN:88 - ID:7242401
VIENNA, Feb 12 (MENA) - A fatal train crash has brought transport to a standstill in Austria, leaving one woman killed and 22 others injured, Euronews reported Monday Two passenger trains collided in the southeastern state of Styria. Three ....
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Oxfam's deputy chief resigns over sex scandal
Date: 2018-02-12 17:51:57 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:86 - ID:7242380
LONDON, Feb 12 (MENA) - Oxfam's deputy chief executive has resigned amid a growing sex crimes scandal involving the organization's aid workers in Haiti and Chad, CNN reported Monday. Penny Lawrence is the first executive at the organization to ....
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Black box recovered from Russia's An-148 crash site near Moscow
Date: 2018-02-12 08:58:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:17 - ID:7240880
MOSCOW, Feb 12 (MENA) - Russian emergency service workers have found a black box at the crash site of the An-148 plane, Sputnik reported on Monday. “The second ‘black box’ has been found,” the spokesperson of the operation headquarters told ....
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London City Airport shut as WW2 bomb found in Thames
Date: 2018-02-12 06:56:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:4 - ID:7240778
LONDON, Feb 12 (MENA) - London City Airport has been closed after a World War Two bomb was found nearby in the River Thames, the BBC reported on Monday. The airport will be shut all day and all flights cancelled, affecting up to 16,000 ....