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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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, ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

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