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  • Istanbul airport attack mastermind killed in Georgia

    Date: 2017-12-01 14:00:22 GMT - Georgia - World - SN:46 - ID:7118503

    TBILISI, Dec 1 (MENA) - The Georgian security agency said Friday that the mastermind behind the 2016 terror attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has been killed in a police operation, Sky News channel reported. The State Security Service ....

  • Argentina's missing submarine: 'No one will be rescued'

    Date: 2017-12-01 12:20:11 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:36 - ID:7118418

    LONDON, Dec 1 (MENA) - Argentina has called off the rescue operation for its missing submarine 15 days after a reported explosion apparently sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Patagonia, The Guardian reported. "No one ....

  • Nine Afghan cities liberated from Daesh terrorist group

    Date: 2017-12-01 11:24:42 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:30 - ID:7118230

    KABUL, Dec 1 (MENA) - Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani announced Friday that the Afghan army has liberated nine cities from Daesh terrorist group. He said in statements that his country is implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism ....

  • Moon, Trump agree to bring N. Korea to dialogue table via sanctions, pressure

    Date: 2017-12-01 11:13:45 GMT - south korea - World - SN:28 - ID:7118148

    SEOUL, Dec 1 (MENA) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed to continue strong pressure and sanctions against North Korea to bring the regime back to negotiations as they held their second phone talks in two ....

  • 11 people wounded in Taliban attack on Pakistani university

    Date: 2017-12-01 10:59:17 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:26 - ID:7118096

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (MENA) - Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in all-enveloping burkas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least 11 people, police said. The Peshawar police chief said that Pakistani ....

  • Trump’s visit to UK delayed -- Daily Telegraph

    Date: 2017-12-01 09:24:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:23 - ID:7118091

    LONDON, Dec 1 (MENA) - US diplomats have dropped plans for Donald Trump to conduct a visit to Britain in January, the Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. Senior US officials said that delaying the visit has nothing to do with UK Prime Minister ....

  • Gunmen storm Peshawar training college

    Date: 2017-12-01 09:15:36 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:22 - ID:7118080

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (MENA) - Gunmen have stormed a college in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least nine people and injuring 25, the BBC reported. At least three men disguised in burkas arrived in a rickshaw and entered the Peshawar ....

  • Eight foreign militants killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan

    Date: 2017-12-01 08:30:08 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:7118001

    KABUL, Dec 1 (MENA) - At least eight foreign militants were killed in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, Afghan military officials said Friday. The airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of the restive Achin ....

  • UN envoy says Syria talks to go until Dec. 15

    Date: 2017-11-30 21:29:46 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:72 - ID:7117776

    GENEVA, Nov 30 (MENA) - The UN envoy for Syria says the current round of peace talks is to run through Dec. 15, as he downplayed the need for face-to-face meetings while playing up how the two sides were physically closer, ABC News ....

  • Turkey: Merkel to work for release of EU funds for refugees

    Date: 2017-11-30 21:08:30 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:71 - ID:7117814

    ANKARA, Nov 30 (MENA) - Turkish officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the two countries try to repair frayed ties, Fox News reported Thursday. Officials from Erdogan's ....

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