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Montenegro presidential election set for April 15
Date: 2018-01-19 15:06:12 GMT - Montenegro - World - SN:44 - ID:7199621
PODGORICA, Jan 19 (MENA) - Montenegro's parliament speaker has set April 15 as the date for the new presidential election, ABC News reported. Ivan Brajovic said Friday he believes that the election — the third such vote since the tiny Balkan ....
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Flu reaches epidemic levels in parts of UK as Japanese strain dominates
Date: 2018-01-19 13:45:08 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:39 - ID:7199299
LONDON, Jan 19 (MENA) - Flu has reached epidemic levels in some parts of the UK with the “Japanese” strain now dominant after the NHS failed to vaccinate against it, official figures show, the Telegraph reported on Friday. Latest data from Public ....
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Russia will not join Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - Lavrov
Date: 2018-01-19 13:00:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:34 - ID:7199403
MOSCOW, Jan 19 (MENA) - Russia does not plan to join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. He stressed that Moscow shared a common interest in building a nuclear-weapon-free world ....
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Russia to shell out $2 mln to budget of UN counter-terrorism office
Date: 2018-01-19 12:46:01 GMT - Russia - World - SN:31 - ID:7199411
MOSCOW, Jan 19 (MENA) - Russia will make a voluntary contribution to the budget of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism in the amount of $2 million, the Russian government said in a statement published on Friday. From 2019 it will be annually ....
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Package found near London’s Kings Cross station 'non-suspicious'
Date: 2018-01-19 11:54:37 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:30 - ID:7199294
LONDON, Jan 19 (MENA) - The British police cordoned off roads around Kings Cross railway station due to a report of a suspicious package, Al Arabiya channel reported Friday. Roads near the station had been shut and officers were in attendance. ....
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Lavrov, UN chief discuss Iran, Syria, N. Korea
Date: 2018-01-19 11:12:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:25 - ID:7198991
MOSCOW, Jan 19 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have noted the lack of alternatives in the peaceful settlement of crises in Syria and North Korea during a meeting in New York, TASS news agency ....
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16 people killed, wounded in car accident in Brazil
Date: 2018-01-19 08:43:59 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:11 - ID:7198917
BRAZILIA, Jan 19 (MENA) - A child was killed and 15 others were injured when a car hit crowds on a promenade near Rio de Janeiro's famous Copacabana beach in Brazil. Live television pictures showed victims lying on the sand and pavement, receiving ....
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Seoul to push for regular high-level talks with Pyongyang
Date: 2018-01-19 08:31:56 GMT - south korea - World - SN:10 - ID:7198916
SEOUL, Jan 19 (MENA) - South Korea's unification ministry said on Friday that it will push to regularize high-level talks with North Korea and provide humanitarian aid to vulnerable people there, as it makes inter-Korean reconciliation a policy ....
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67 militants killed, wounded in Afghanistan- Defense ministry
Date: 2018-01-19 08:24:14 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:9 - ID:7198915
KABUL, Jan 19 (MENA) - At least 34 insurgents were killed and 33 others wounded in clearing operations led by Afghan security personnel within the last 24 hours in different parts of the country, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Friday. In a ....
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Global-PRNewswire(6):Single Blood Test Screens For Eight Cancer Types
Date: 2018-01-18 20:08:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:78 - ID:7198663
Single Blood Test Screens For Eight Cancer Types Provides unique new framework for early detection of the most common cancers BALTIMORE, Jan. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers developed a single blood test ....
