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  • Merkel, Trump call for tougher sanctions on North Korea after nuke launch

    Date: 2017-09-04 21:46:47 GMT - Germany - World - SN:85 - ID:6975118

    BERLIN, Sept 4 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump condemned Pyongyang's latest nuclear test in telephone talks on Monday and agreed that the United Nations Security Council would have to adopt stricter sanctions ....

  • Belgian military pilot falls from helicopter during air show

    Date: 2017-09-04 19:16:33 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:79 - ID:6975011

    BRUSSELS, Sept 4 (MENA) - A body has been found in the search for a pilot who fell out of a military helicopter during an air show in eastern Belgium, Belgian media report. Police discovered the body close to a valley at Amay near Liège. Three ....

  • Gunmen kill 3 in attack on paramilitary patrol in Pakistan

    Date: 2017-09-04 18:39:15 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:77 - ID:6975031

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 4 (MENA) - Gunmen have ambushed a Pakistani paramilitary patrol, killing three troops, including a lieutenant colonel, and wounding three others, ABC News quoted Ali Ahmed Gishkori, a tribal police official as saying. The attack ....

  • N. Korean delegation heads to Russia for regional forum

    Date: 2017-09-04 17:55:58 GMT - south korea - World - SN:75 - ID:6974957

    SEOUL, Sept 4 (MENA) – A North Korean delegation left for Russia Monday, the North's state media reported, for a regional economic forum that will also involve a South Korean government delegation headed by President Moon Jae-in. The North Korean ....

  • Tens of thousands in Russia's Chechnya rally for Rohingya

    Date: 2017-09-04 14:57:52 GMT - Chechnya - World - SN:68 - ID:6974765

    GROZNY, Sept 4 (MENA) - Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Russia's predominantly Muslim Chechnya to protest what the Chechen leader called "genocide of Muslims" in Myanmar. Myanmar's security officials and Muslim Rohingya ....

  • Turkey releases German arrested over links to failed coup: Berlin

    Date: 2017-09-04 14:41:10 GMT - Germany - World - SN:66 - ID:6974564

    BERLIN, Sept 4 (MENA) - ِِA German national who had been detained in Turkey over alleged links to last year's failed coup has been released, the German Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. In a press conference, the German Foreign Ministry ....

  • N. Korea's missiles capable of reaching UK, US : says Daily Telegraph

    Date: 2017-09-04 13:21:51 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:62 - ID:6974583

    LONDON, Sept 4 (MENA) - The range of North Korean missiles is sufficient to reach the United Kingdom and all of the continental United States in addition to Moscow, Delhi Sydney and other areas, the Daily Telegraph said in a report on ....

  • UN urges probe of possible Burundi crimes against humanity

    Date: 2017-09-04 13:17:03 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:60 - ID:6974582

    GENEVA, Sept 4 (MENA) - The United Nations asked the International Criminal Court to investigate whether human-rights violations committed in Burundi constitute crimes against humanity. A probe by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi found ....

  • BRICS leaders support cooperation to combat corruption

    Date: 2017-09-04 12:44:08 GMT - China - World - SN:55 - ID:6974519

    XIAMEN, China, Sept 4 (MENA) - Leaders of the 9th BRICS summit agreed to boost cooperation for facing corruption which affects sustainable development. In the Xiamen Declaration, leaders underlined supporting ....

  • BRICS leaders urge reaching permanent settlement to Syrian crisis

    Date: 2017-09-04 12:36:33 GMT - China - World - SN:54 - ID:6974525

    XIAMEN, China, Sept 4 (MENA) - The BRICS leaders called for reaching a permanent settlement to the Syrian crisis, stressing that a comprehensive political process is the only solution for this crisis in order to allow the Syrians to preserve the ....

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