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  • Spanish government holds crisis meeting on Catalan independence

    Date: 2017-10-11 08:59:02 GMT - Spain - World - SN:23 - ID:7033765

    MADRID, Oct 11 (MENA) - Spain’s government is holding crisis talks after the Catalan leader signed a suspended declaration of independence and called for dialogue with Madrid. The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, is chairing an emergency ....

  • Toll from Northern California firestorms sharply rise: 2,000 structures destroyed, at least 17 dead

    Date: 2017-10-11 07:39:02 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:7033574

    WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (MENA) - The toll from Northern California’s ranging wildfires continued to grow Tuesday evening as officials said the fires destroyed up to 2,000 structures and killed at least 17 people, Los Angeles Times reported. The ....

  • Trump discusses 'range of options' to respond to North Korean aggression

    Date: 2017-10-11 05:44:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:1 - ID:7033487

    WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump had a meeting with members of his national security team to discuss "a range of options to respond to any form of North Korean aggression or, if necessary, to prevent North Korea from threatening ....

  • ECHR orders Russia to pay 300,000 euros to relatives of those killed in Chechnya

    Date: 2017-10-10 22:46:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:84 - ID:7033409

    MOSCOW, Oct 10 (MENA) - The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia’s authorities should pay 300,000 euros ($354,000) in compensation upon lawsuits of 20 Russian citizens, whose relatives were killed in Chechnya ....

  • Catalonia: Spanish government rejects 'tacit' independence declaration

    Date: 2017-10-10 22:01:55 GMT - Spain - World - SN:81 - ID:7033385

    MADRID, Oct 10 (MENA) - The Spanish government has described Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont’s parliamentary statement in which he suspended a declaration of independence from Spain, as “blackmail broadcast live to the state” and said it rejects ....

  • 51 Taliban militants killed, injured in Afghanistan

    Date: 2017-10-10 20:04:11 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:72 - ID:7033180

    KABUL, Oct 10 (MENA) - At least 23 Taliban militants were killed and 28 others were wounded during operations in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan. A statement by the Ministry of Defense said the deputy shadow district chief of the group for ....

  • US-Turkey relations take another turn for worse

    Date: 2017-10-10 19:11:42 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:69 - ID:7033181

    LONDON, Oct 10 (MENA) - The US ambassador in Ankara has suggested that some Turkish officials might be trying to “disrupt” co-operation between the two countries after the arrest of a US embassy employee prompted a tit-for-tat diplomatic dispute, ....

  • Catalan leader says region has earned independence

    Date: 2017-10-10 18:39:45 GMT - Spain - World - SN:67 - ID:7033296

    MADRID, Oct 10 (MENA) - The leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, said on Tuesday evening that his region had earned the right to independence from Spain, but he immediately suspended the process to allow for talks with the central government in ....

  • Sadiq Khan set to visit India, Pakistan to encourage trade with London

    Date: 2017-10-10 18:25:40 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:66 - ID:7033202

    LONDON, Oct 10 (MENA) - London mayor Sadiq Khan will visit India and Pakistan later this year to promote business and cultural ties between the two countries and the UK capital, The Independent reported Tuesday. Khan has announced a six-day tour, ....

  • Humanitarians in Yemen face unacceptable obstacles in carrying out relief efforts: UN

    Date: 2017-10-10 18:18:45 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:65 - ID:7033153

    NEW YORK, Oct 10 (MENA) - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Director of Operations John Ging assured that the devastation in Yemen left some 15 million people lacking adequate access to clean water, sanitation ....

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