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Russia investigations could affect midterm congressional elections in US, experts say
Date: 2018-05-20 21:34:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:75 - ID:7409715
WASHINGTON, May 20 (MENA) - The outcome of two major investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election could help determine whether Republicans keep control of US Congress, political analysts said. Both the Senate Intelligence ....
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Trump asks for investigating into whether Obama administration or FBI spied on his presidential campaign
Date: 2018-05-20 21:18:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:73 - ID:7409713
WASHINGTON, May 20 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump demanded that the Justice Department opens an investigation into whether the department or the FBI. “infiltrated or surveilled” his campaign at the behest of the Obama administration, the New ....
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One killed in Su-29 crash landing in Russia's Leningrad
Date: 2018-05-20 20:34:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:71 - ID:7409646
MOSCOW, May 20 (MENA) - One person died in a crash landing of a Su-29 sporting airplane in the Leningrad region, a spokesman for the Northwestern regional center of the Russian emergencies ministry told TASS on Sunday. "A Su-29 plane made a crash ....
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Daesh claims responsibility for church attack in Chechnya
Date: 2018-05-20 20:23:21 GMT - Chechnya - World - SN:70 - ID:7409631
GROZNY, May 20 (MENA) - The Daesh militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on a church in Russia’s Chechnya republic that killed three people, Euronews quoted the group’s Amaq news agency as saying on Sunday. The group offered no ....
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162 illegal migrants rescued off Spanish shore
Date: 2018-05-20 19:25:51 GMT - Spain - World - SN:67 - ID:7409622
MADRID, May 20 (MENA) - Spain's maritime rescue service said it picked up 162 migrants who were attempting to make the perilous trip across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe this weekend, ABC news reported on Sunday. The service said its rescue ....
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Multiple bomb attacks hit Thailand's deep south, injure 3 people
Date: 2018-05-20 19:12:28 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:66 - ID:7409616
BANGKOK, May 20 (MENA) - Multiple bomb attacks by suspected separatist insurgents injured at least three people in Thailand’s far south on Sunday, the military said, according to Euronews. A decades-old separatist insurgency in predominantly ....
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Pope Francis: Holy Land needs 'gestures of dialogue, reconciliation'
Date: 2018-05-20 16:32:18 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:59 - ID:7409416
VATICAN CITY, May 20 (MENA) - Pope Francis says "gestures of dialogue and reconciliation" are needed for the Holy Land and all the Middle East, The New York Times reported. He told faithful in St. Peter's Square Sunday he had "united himself ....
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Europe reassures Iran of commitment to nuclear deal without US
Date: 2018-05-20 15:53:37 GMT - Iran - World - SN:56 - ID:7409396
TEHRAN, May 20 (MENA) - The European Union’s energy chief has tried to reassure Iran that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran despite US President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the accord and reimpose sanctions, ....
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Afghan-US forces respond to Taliban attack in Ghazni with heavy airstrikes
Date: 2018-05-20 14:15:05 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:45 - ID:7409193
KABUL, May 20 (MENA) - Afghan and US forces responded to a Taliban attack on Ghazni province with heavy airstrikes that resulted in the killing of several militants, according to Khaama Press News Agency on Sunday. The 203rd Thunder Corps of the ....
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Ex-secretary urges school boycott to press new gun laws in US
Date: 2018-05-20 08:28:00 GMT - USA - World - SN:12 - ID:7408552
WASHINGTON, May 20 (MENA) - Former US Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called on parents to pull "their children out of schools until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. "Parents should ....
