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  • Trump: Cuba 'is responsible' for attacks on US personnel

    Date: 2017-10-17 16:45:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:76 - ID:7044773

    NEW YORK, Oct 17 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said Monday that he believes Cuba is responsible for unexplained, invisible attacks in Cuba that have harmed American government workers, ABC news reported on Tuesday. Though Trump's comments ....

  • Afghanistan: Taliban kill 71 people in attacks

    Date: 2017-10-17 16:14:16 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:72 - ID:7044643

    KABUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - Afghanistan's deputy interior minister said the Taliban have killed 71 people in attacks in Ghazni and Paktia province, ABC news reported on Tuesday. The official, Murad Ali Murad, told a press conference in Kabul that the ....

  • US official says not ruling out direct talks with N.Korea

    Date: 2017-10-17 14:36:02 GMT - USA - World - SN:65 - ID:7044459

    WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (MENA) - The United States is not ruling out the eventual possibility of direct talks with North Korea, France 24 quoted Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan a saying on Tuesday. Talks between the adversaries have long ....

  • Trump to visit S. Korea on November 7-8

    Date: 2017-10-17 11:40:48 GMT - south korea - World - SN:34 - ID:7043629

    SEOUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump will arrive in South Korea on November 7 for a two-day visit to hold a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Yonhap quoted the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae as saying Tuesday. "We ....

  • S. Korea condemns Somalia bombings

    Date: 2017-10-17 11:40:18 GMT - south korea - World - SN:33 - ID:7043731

    SEOUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned the latest bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia, that killed hundreds of innocent people, calling it a "terror" act that can never be tolerated. In a statement issued ....

  • 36 killed, wounded in eastern Afghanistan attack

    Date: 2017-10-17 10:41:57 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:27 - ID:7043784

    KABUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - Six people were killed and 30 others wounded in a Taliban attack on a police training center in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province in the east of Afghanistan, an Afghan health official said. The Taliban have claimed ....

  • New battle in Iraq gives Iran the upper hand

    Date: 2017-10-17 09:42:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:20 - ID:7043601

    WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (MENA) - For months, there have been warnings that the Islamic State's eventual defeat in Iraq and Syria would only spark a number of far more complicated and arguably more dangerous conflicts. We may now be seeing the first of ....

  • Parsons Green station's stabbing not terror-related

    Date: 2017-10-17 08:53:28 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:17 - ID:7043538

    LONDON, Oct 17 (MENA) - The stabbing that took place in Parsons Green station in London is not terror-related and no arrests have been made, The Independent quoted Scotland Yard as saying. One man died at the scene and two others were taken to ....

  • Afghan officials: Taliban attacks kill 10 policemen

    Date: 2017-10-17 08:34:35 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:14 - ID:7043485

    KABUL, Oct 17 (MENA) - Afghan officials say Taliban attacks in the country's south, west and east have killed at least 10 policemen, VOA reported Tuesday. In southern Ghazni province, the insurgents stormed a security compound, using a suicide ....

  • Spanish judge jails two Catalonia independence leaders

    Date: 2017-10-16 22:46:39 GMT - Spain - World - SN:86 - ID:7043214

    MADRID, Oct 16 (MENA) - A Spanish judge has ruled that the leaders of the two biggest grassroots pro-independence associations in Catalonia should remain in prison without bail on possible charges of sedition - for which, if convicted, they could ....

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