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  • Japan moves to host summit with South Korea, China

    Date: 2017-12-30 17:26:06 GMT - Japan - World - SN:52 - ID:7166915

    TOKYO, Dec 30 (MENA) - Japan has proposed to China and South Korea that their long-delayed trilateral summit be held in Tokyo in early April, but Beijing is withholding its response, diplomatic sources said. Since China is reluctant to hold such ....

  • Putin: Mutual respect should be basic in relations with US

    Date: 2017-12-30 17:04:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:51 - ID:7166863

    MOSCOW, Dec 30 (MENA) - Equality and mutual respect should be basic in development of relations between Russia and the US, and a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington is necessary for strengthening of the world’s strategic stability, ....

  • Russian security services say organizer of St Petersburg supermarket blast detained

    Date: 2017-12-30 16:23:51 GMT - Russia - World - SN:49 - ID:7166859

    MOSCOW, Dec 30 (MENA) - The organizer and perpetrator of the St. Petersburg supermarket bombing, which injured 18 people, has been detained, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday. The suspect has been transferred to Russia’s ....

  • Seven militants killed by Afghan Air Force in Faryab

    Date: 2017-12-30 10:54:04 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:23 - ID:7166091

    KABUL, Dec 30 (MENA) - At least seven militants were killed and three others injured in airstrikes launched by the Afghan Air Force in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan army said on Saturday. In a statement, the Afghan army noted ....

  • US considers withholding millions in aid from Pakistan -- report

    Date: 2017-12-29 21:26:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:94 - ID:7165780

    WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (MENA) - The US administration is strongly considering whether to withhold $255 million in aid from Pakistan, according to American officials, as a show of dissatisfaction with Pakistan’s broader intransigence toward confronting ....

  • France to mobilize 140,000 security personnel on New Year's Eve

    Date: 2017-12-29 21:03:38 GMT - France - World - SN:93 - ID:7165752

    PARIS, Dec 29 (MENA) - French Interior minister Gerard Collomb announced Friday that nearly 140,000 security personnel will be mobilized on New Year's Eve. The minister said 56,000 police officers, 36,000 gendarmes, 7,000 soldiers from Operation ....

  • Gunman kills mayor of town in southern Mexico

    Date: 2017-12-29 19:34:54 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:85 - ID:7165713

    MEXICO CITY, Dec 29 (MENA) - A masked gunman has assassinated the mayor of a town in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero, ABC News reported on Friday. The state police office identified the victim as Arturo Gomez Perez, the mayor of ....

  • Grenade attack at Colombian nightclub leaves 31 injured

    Date: 2017-12-29 18:31:46 GMT - Colombia - World - SN:77 - ID:7165575

    BOGOTA, Dec 29 (MENA) - At least 31 people were injured, half of them in serious condition, after the explosion of a grenade in a nightclub in the Colombian department of Antioquia, Prensa Latina reported Friday. The attack took place in the ....

  • Uganda charges 45 Rwandan nationals with terrorism: Report

    Date: 2017-12-29 12:41:09 GMT - Uganda - World - SN:35 - ID:7164769

    KAMPALA, Dec 29 (MENA) - A government-controlled newspaper in Uganda said 45 Rwandan nationals have been charged with terrorism and establishing a terror organization, ABC News reported. The New Vision reported Friday that the suspects were ....

  • Three injured as bus plows into stop in Moscow

    Date: 2017-12-29 12:12:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:30 - ID:7164738

    MOSCOW, Dec 29 (MENA) - No one was killed in an accident earlier on Friday in northwestern Moscow involving a bus, Sputnik quoted the Russian Emergencies Ministry's Moscow department as saying on Twitter Friday. "No one was killed. Information on ....

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