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  • Daesh claims attack on Indonesia police site: SITE

    Date: 2018-05-14 20:32:13 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:114 - ID:7401091

    JAKARTA, May 14 (MENA) - Daesh has claimed a suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Indonesia's second largest city Surabaya Monday, according to the SITE monitoring group. A family of five, including a child, carried out the suicide bombing ....

  • Germany eyes goal of 1.5 percent defense spending by 2025

    Date: 2018-05-14 19:41:21 GMT - Germany - World - SN:109 - ID:7401056

    BERLIN, May 14 (MENA) - Germany's defense minister said Berlin will raise its military spending to 1.5 percent of GDP by 2025 — far short of the 2 percent goal demanded of NATO members by US President Donald Trump, ABC News reported. Defense ....

  • 12 terror plots thwarted in the UK since March 2017, says spy chief

    Date: 2018-05-14 19:11:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:106 - ID:7401037

    BERLIN, May 14 (MENA) - Authorities have thwarted 12 terror plots in the United Kingdom since the Westminster attack in March 2017, bringing the total number of foiled attacks in the country since 2013 to 25, the head of the UK’s domestic ....

  • EU foreign ministers blast US decision to move embassy to Jerusalem

    Date: 2018-05-14 18:37:12 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:101 - ID:7400929

    BRUSSELS, May 14 (MENA) - European foreign ministers said the US decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem is unwise and likely to exacerbate tensions, ABC News reported. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said Monday that the move "is ....

  • Police headquarters attacked in Surabaya

    Date: 2018-05-14 06:19:49 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:5 - ID:7399198

    JAKARTA, May 14 (MENA) - Police have confirmed that a family of four suicide bombers have died in an attack on a Surabaya police station this morning, Sky news reported. The four militants, on motorcycles, blew themselves up outside the police ....

  • Afghanistan denounces terror attacks in France, Indonesia

    Date: 2018-05-13 22:42:19 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:112 - ID:7399014

    KABUL, May 13 (MENA) - Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Indonesia and France and stressed over multinational efforts to eradicated terrorism and extremism, a statement from Presidential Palace was quoted ....

  • Pompeo: Mideast peace process not dead

    Date: 2018-05-13 22:28:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:111 - ID:7398911

    WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Mideast peace process "is most decidedly not dead" even as the Trump administration plans to open the new American Embassy in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), ABC news reported on ....

  • Iran’s top diplomat hopeful of forging ‘clear future’ for nuclear deal after talks in China

    Date: 2018-05-13 21:07:50 GMT - China - World - SN:106 - ID:7399083

    BEIJING, May 13 (MENA) – Iran’s foreign minister on Sunday said he was hopeful of forging a “clear future design” for the nuclear deal facing collapse after Washington’s withdrawal, at the start of a diplomatic tour aimed at rescuing the agreement, ....

  • Daesh claims responsibility for attack in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-05-13 20:54:21 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:105 - ID:7399017

    KABUL, May 13 (MENA) - The terrorist Daesh group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a government building in Afghanistan on Sunday, the group’s Amaq news agency said without providing any evidence, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel ....

  • Another bomb explosion reported in Indonesia's Sidoarjo; one killed

    Date: 2018-05-13 18:42:20 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:96 - ID:7398906

    JAKARTA, May 13 (MENA) - Only hours after the deadly suicide bombings at three churches in Surabaya, East Java, which killed at least 13 people and wounded over 40 others, city residents were shocked by another bomb blast later in the day, The ....

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