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UN passes draft resolution on withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria
Date: 2018-06-22 20:33:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:68 - ID:7455139
MOSCOW, June 22 (MENA) - The United Nations General Assembly has passed a draft resolution urging immediate and complete withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria, TASS news agency reported on Friday. The draft was passed by a simple ....
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UN refugee agency chief urges Europe to unite on asylum, migration
Date: 2018-06-22 19:28:01 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:62 - ID:7455052
GENEVA, June 22 (MENA) - United Nations refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi called on the European Union (EU) on Friday to "find a new and united approach" to migration and asylum, saying it was achievable, Euronews reported. Grandi, in a ....
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12 hurt when van with migrants flips in Croatia
Date: 2018-06-22 18:17:13 GMT - Croatia - World - SN:59 - ID:7454991
ZAGREB, June 22 (MENA) - Croatian police said a van carrying migrants has overturned in northwestern Croatia injuring twelve people, ABC News reported. The police said the accident happened early Friday when the Hungarian driver of the van lost ....
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Kushner, Greenblatt meet with Netanyahu on peace plan, Gaza
Date: 2018-06-22 18:11:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:58 - ID:7454908
WASHINGTON, June 22 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump's main Middle East adviser - his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt - met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in ....
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French police dismantle major Marseille drugs network
Date: 2018-06-22 17:14:33 GMT - France - World - SN:55 - ID:7454960
MARSEILLE, France, June 22 (MENA) - The French police said that they had smashed a major drug trafficking ring in the southern city of Marseille, a key hub in the trans-Mediterranean cannabis and cocaine trade where several people are killed each ....
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New East Timor government marred by corruption allegations
Date: 2018-06-22 17:08:54 GMT - East Timor - World - SN:51 - ID:7454862
DILI, June 22 (MENA) - East Timor's president has refused to swear in 11 cabinet ministers because of corruption investigations in a rocky beginning for a new government formed after a protracted political stalemate in the young nation, ABC News ....
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Russia may raise duties on cars as tit-for-tat measure following US restrictions
Date: 2018-06-22 17:08:38 GMT - Russia - World - SN:50 - ID:7454927
MOSCOW, June 22 (MENA) - Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin said on Friday that Russia may increase import duties on cars as a retaliatory measure to the US, TASS news agency reported. "It is being considered," he said, in ....
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Trump calls on OPEC to increase oil production
Date: 2018-06-22 17:08:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:49 - ID:7454904
WASHINGTON, June 22 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump called Friday on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase oil production. Trump wrote on his twitter account, "Hope OPEC will increase output substantially. ....
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Russia, Iran mull keeping Iranian nuclear deal in place
Date: 2018-06-22 17:08:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:48 - ID:7454906
MOSCOW, June 22 (MENA) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov had a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araghchi, according to a statement published by the Russian Foreign Ministry on ....
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US reiterates commitment to political solution in Yemen
Date: 2018-06-22 17:08:07 GMT - Yemen - World - SN:47 - ID:7454851
WASHINGTON, June 22 (MENA) - US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan has reiterated Washington’s commitment to reach a political solution to the Yemeni crisis, The US State Department posted on its website. Sullivan’s remarks came as he and ....
