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  • More than 100 seats that backed Brexit now want to remain in EU - report

    Date: 2018-08-12 21:15:37 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:100 - ID:7530738

    LONDON, Aug 12 (MENA) - More than 100 Westminster constituencies that voted to leave the EU have now switched their support to Remain, according to a stark new analysis seen by the Observer on Sunday. In findings that could have a significant ....

  • One killed, 10 injured in blast in Pakistan

    Date: 2018-08-12 20:35:34 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:97 - ID:7530675

    ISLAMABAD, Aug 12 (MENA) - At least one person was killed and 10 others wounded in a blast on Chaman's Mall road, police said on Sunday. According to police, the blast took place near the under-construction District Police Official's office on ....

  • S. Korea to ban entry of of ships transporting N. Korean coal

    Date: 2018-08-12 18:23:27 GMT - south korea - World - SN:89 - ID:7530618

    SEOUL, Aug 12 (MENA) - The South Korean government will take punitive measures as early as this week against four South Korean ships confirmed to have imported North Korean coal to the country, the Korean Foreign Ministry was quoted by Yonhap news ....

  • 11 soldiers killed, 20 wounded in militant attack in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-08-12 18:09:09 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:87 - ID:7530578

    KABUL, Aug 12 (MENA) - Taliban militants killed at least 11 Afghan security forces, wounded 20 and captured six alive after attacking their posts in northwestern Faryab province in Afghanistan, sources said Sunday. Speaking to Pajhwok, a besieged ....

  • US ambassador urges Britain to ditch support for Iran nuclear deal

    Date: 2018-08-12 15:56:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:75 - ID:7530379

    LONDON, Aug 12 (MENA) - The United States urged Britain on Sunday to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it says Tehran poses, Euro News reported. Despite ....

  • On 'mission to touch the sun,' Parker Solar Probe has launched

    Date: 2018-08-12 11:11:01 GMT - USA - World - SN:33 - ID:7529621

    WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (MENA) - Humanity's first visit to a star began this weekend. NASA's Parker Solar Probe will explore the sun's atmosphere in a mission that launched early Sunday. This is the agency's first mission to the sun and its outermost ....

  • Ten people injured in Manchester shooting

    Date: 2018-08-12 06:52:19 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:8 - ID:7529380

    LONDON, Aug 12 (MENA) - Ten people are in hospital with minor to major injuries after shots were fired in Manchester, England, in the early hours of Sunday morning, ABC news reported. Greater Manchester Police received a report of gunshots at ....

  • India's Kerala state on high alert after floods kill 34

    Date: 2018-08-11 19:18:47 GMT - India - World - SN:51 - ID:7529117

    NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (MENA) - More than half of the 14 districts in India's Kerala state have been put on high alert, officials said on Saturday, as the death toll from one of the worst floods in the southern state reached 34, Euro News reported. A ....

  • Trump condemns 'all types of racism, violence'

    Date: 2018-08-11 16:56:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:43 - ID:7528915

    WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump acknowledged the grim anniversary of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly last year, US media reported. "The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted ....

  • Iran: 10 militants killed in Kurdish area near Iraq

    Date: 2018-08-11 14:35:37 GMT - Iran - World - SN:32 - ID:7528788

    TEHRAN, Aug 11 (MENA) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said it has killed 10 militants in a Kurdish region near the border with Iraq, Voice of America reported. The Guard's website said Saturday that the 10 belonged to a “terrorist group ....

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