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  • Iran warns US against designating Guards a terrorist group

    Date: 2017-10-08 11:57:29 GMT - Iran - World - SN:24 - ID:7028892

    TEHRAN, Oct 8 (MENA) - Iran will consider the US army equivalent to the Islamic State militant group if Washington designates its Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group, the Guards’ commander Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted Euronews as saying ....

  • WHO to vaccinate Rohingya refugees against cholera

    Date: 2017-10-07 20:27:14 GMT - Bangladesh - World - SN:68 - ID:7028339

    DHAKA, Oct 7 (MENA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) reports 900,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine are expected to arrive in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Saturday. A mass vaccination campaign for Rohingya refugees is set to begin Tuesday, October ....

  • London crash 'not terror-related', police say

    Date: 2017-10-07 19:23:16 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:64 - ID:7028235

    LONDON, Oct 7 (MENA) - A crash outside a London museum that injured 11 people was not terror-related, the BBC reported Saturday. A car mounted the pavement outside the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, at 14:20 ....

  • Three US fighter jets make emergency landings

    Date: 2017-10-07 19:00:24 GMT - Japan - World - SN:60 - ID:7028233

    TOKYO, Oct 7 (MENA) – Three US Air Force F-16 fighter jets made emergency landings at an airport in central Japan on Saturday, NHK News reported. The three jet fighters are stationed at the US Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan. ....

  • Trump approves emergency declaration for a large area of Louisiana

    Date: 2017-10-07 16:11:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:46 - ID:7028044

    WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (MENA) - President Donald Trump has approved an emergency declaration for a large area of Louisiana and ordered federal assistance for the state as Hurricane Nate approaches the central Gulf of Mexico. A White House statement ....

  • 'Multiple' people injured after car 'ploughs into pedestrians outside London's Natural History Museum'

    Date: 2017-10-07 15:31:59 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:43 - ID:7028025

    LONDON, Oct 7 (MENA) - Multiple people have been injured after a car allegedly ploughed into pedestrians outside London's famous Natural History Museum. Shocked eyewitnesses described how the vehicle "drove into people" near the museum, with ....

  • Death toll of Pakistan shrine attack rises to 24

    Date: 2017-10-07 09:32:02 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:18 - ID:7027307

    ISLAMABAD, Oct 7 (MENA) - The death toll of a suicide attack that hit a shrine in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Thursday has risen to 24 after four others have succumbed to their injuries. District police chief Mohammad ....

  • Hurricane Nate to strengthen as it threatens US Gulf Coast

    Date: 2017-10-07 08:49:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:7027197

    WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (MENA) - Tropical storm Nate has strengthened into a category one hurricane and is speeding towards the United States after killing at least 22 people in Central America, the US National Hurricane Center said on Saturday. The ....

  • Deputy PM of Kyrgyzstan dies in car crash

    Date: 2017-10-07 08:07:09 GMT - Kyrgyzstan - World - SN:10 - ID:7027179

    BISHKEK, Oct 7 (MENA) - Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Temir Jumakadyrov has died on Saturday in a car crash near Bishkek. His driver and his assistant were killed in the collision as well, Russia Today channel reported, quoting a statement by the ....

  • 7 dead, 1 injured in military helicopter crash in Mexico

    Date: 2017-10-07 06:51:35 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:6 - ID:7027109

    MEXICO CITY, Oct 7 (MENA) - Seven army personnel are presumed dead after a helicopter crashed in the north of the town of el Salto in the mountainous state of Durango during a training flight, Mexico’s Defense Department said. In a statement, the ....

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