World

  • Service : English General
  • Category : World
  • Combating terrorism in Syria almost reached the end- Lavrov

    Date: 2017-11-07 11:09:46 GMT - Russia - World - SN:40 - ID:7078776

    MOSCOW, Nov 7 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday stressed the need to support a political process in Syria as combating terrorism on the Syrian territories has almost reached the end. In a press conference, Lavrov said the ....

  • Kabul TV station Shamshad stormed by gunmen

    Date: 2017-11-07 08:46:02 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:19 - ID:7078503

    KABUL, Nov 7 (MENA) - Gunmen have attacked a local television station in the Afghan capital Kabul, with a number of casualties feared, the BBC reported. The attackers threw grenades and fired guns as they entered the Shamshad TV headquarters, ....

  • Donald Trump arrives in S Korea with focus on Pyongyang

    Date: 2017-11-07 06:51:42 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:7078335

    SEOUL, Nov 7 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump has landed in South Korea, with the North's nuclear ambitions high on his agenda, the BBC reported Tuesday. He flew in from Tokyo, after saying on Monday that Japan could shoot down Pyongyang's ....

  • UN Security Council calls on Myanmar to end excessive military force in Rakhine state

    Date: 2017-11-07 06:34:34 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:6 - ID:7078309

    NEW YORK, Nov 7 (MENA) - Strongly condemning the widespread violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which has led to the displacement of over 600,000 members of the country’s minority Muslim Rohingya community, the UN Security Council called on the ....

  • UN: 1.25 million people in South Sudan are facing starvation in South Sudan

    Date: 2017-11-06 11:41:42 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:7077118

    NEW YORK, Nov 6 (MENA) - The United Nations (UN) said 1.25 million people are facing starvation, double the number from the same time last year, USA Today reported Monday. The current food crisis is a result of the country’s “man-made conflict,” ....

  • Russia: Bomb with blast equivalent to 7-8 kg of TNT detonated at Ingush traffic police checkpoint

    Date: 2017-11-06 09:45:48 GMT - Russia - World - SN:25 - ID:7076742

    NAZRAN, Nov 6 (MENA) - The explosive device detonated at a traffic police checkpoint in the Nazran district of the Russian North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, a source with the Ingush law enforcement agencies was quoted by TASS news agency on ....

  • More hawkish Trump approach to China is coming soon: US writer

    Date: 2017-11-06 08:54:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:7076692

    WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (MENA) - The Trump administration is slowly but surely coming around to a more hawkish, traditional Republican stance on China, Josh Rogin wrote in The Washington Post of Monday. In his article, he said several signs of the ....

  • Global(2):Takata Encourages Creditors to Visit TKRestructuring.com/PPIC Website for Information on Chapter 11 Cases

    Date: 2017-11-06 07:10:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:7076576

    WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 25, 2017 (the "Petition Date"), TK Holdings Inc. and certain of its affiliates (collectively, the "Debtors") filed chapter 11 cases (the "Chapter 11 Cases") in the United States ....

  • Texas church attacker identified

    Date: 2017-11-06 06:27:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:7076515

    WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (MENA) - An Air Force official said the gunman responsible for the mass shooting at a Texas church was court-martialed in 2012 and discharged two years later, CNN reported. Spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Devin P. Kelley was ....

  • Trump orders US flags to be flown at half-staff after Texas attack

    Date: 2017-11-06 06:00:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:7076488

    WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (MENA) - President Donald Trump has ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff to honor those killed in the mass shooting at a Texas church, Fox News reported. Trump, who is in the midst of a lengthy tour of Asia, issued a ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD