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Explosion rocks voter registration center in Afghanistan's Baghlan
Date: 2018-06-06 08:40:51 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:7432491
KABUL, June 6 (MENA) - An explosion hit a voter registration center in the capital of northwestern Baghlan province on Wednesday morning, Pajhwok Afghan news reported. An eyewitness said the blast took place in the Dasht-i-Alwan area of ....
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Taliban commander among 4 killed in US airstrikes in Maidan Wardak
Date: 2018-06-06 06:56:05 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:7 - ID:7432359
KABUL, June 6 (MENA) - At least four militants including a local commander of the Taliban group were killed in the US airstrike in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Khaama Press reported. The 203rd Thunder Corps of the ....
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Putin: Sanctions harm all, everybody wants them to go
Date: 2018-06-05 21:19:01 GMT - Russia - World - SN:83 - ID:7432083
VIENNA, June 5 (MENA) - Sanctions are harmful to all and everybody, including Russia, is interested in their cancellation, TASS news agency quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying after talks with Austrian President Alexander Van der ....
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China offers to buy $70 bln of US products to fend off trade tariffs - report
Date: 2018-06-05 21:09:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:7432085
NEW YORK, June 5 (MENA) - China offered to purchase nearly $70 billion of US farm, manufacturing and energy products if the Trump administration abandons threatened tariffs, The Wall Street Journal reported, according to people briefed on the latest ....
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Greek authorities rescue 34 migrants from islet in river
Date: 2018-06-05 16:48:21 GMT - Greece - World - SN:63 - ID:7431914
ATHENS, June 5 (MENA) - Greek authorities say they have rescued 34 migrants, including seven children, who were trapped on an islet on the border river that separates Greece from Turkey, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Police said the ....
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IOM raises concern over boat-sinking off Tunisia
Date: 2018-06-05 14:52:41 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:48 - ID:7431697
GENEVA, June 5 (MENA) - The weekend capsizing off Tunisia of an overloaded smuggling boat is now believed to have killed 112 migrants, making it the deadliest shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the UN migration agency said in a statement ....
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UN urges US to halt separations of migrant families
Date: 2018-06-05 13:09:51 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:36 - ID:7431497
GENEVA, June 5 (MENA) - The U.N. human rights office is calling on the Trump administration to "immediately halt" its policy of separating children from their parents after crossing U.S. border with Mexico, ABC news reported on Tuesday. Rights ....
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Putin reiterates his stance on Russia's alleged involvement in US elections
Date: 2018-06-05 10:53:40 GMT - Austria - World - SN:23 - ID:7431087
VIENNA, June 5 (MENA) - The Russian government was not involved in private activities of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin or in the interference in the US election race in 2016, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired by Austria’s ORF ....
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Guatemala volcano death toll climbs to 69 as new explosion hampers rescue efforts
Date: 2018-06-05 07:25:31 GMT - Guatemala - World - SN:11 - ID:7430841
GUATEMALA CITY, June 5 (MENA) - Rescue workers struggled in perilous conditions to find bodies under rivers of ash and mud that swept down from Guatemala's Fuego volcano, as the number of fatalities from an eruption that partially buried buildings ....
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Abe to urge Trump to snub Pyongyang’s position on abductions of Japanese when he meets Kim: sources
Date: 2018-06-05 06:48:40 GMT - Japan - World - SN:5 - ID:7430845
TOKYO, June 5 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will urge US President Donald Trump to dismiss Pyongyang’s assertion that the issue of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago has been resolved when he meets with North Korean leader Kim ....
