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UK police arrest 2nd man in London subway attack case
Date: 2017-09-17 08:02:09 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:7 - ID:6994677
LONDON, Sept 17 (MENA) - London police said a second man has been arrested in connection with the London subway attack, the Daily Mail reported. Police said Sunday that a 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in west ....
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UN head: Myanmar leader has 'Last chance' to contain Rohingya crisis
Date: 2017-09-17 08:00:15 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:6 - ID:6994723
NEW YORK, Sept 17 (MENA) - Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has "a last chance" to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingya to flee abroad, the UN head has said. Interviewed by the BBC, ....
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Muslim World League holds US conference on cross-cultural communication
Date: 2017-09-16 22:44:29 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:71 - ID:6994503
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (MENA) - The Muslim World League is holding a conference on "Civilizational Communication between the United States of America and the Islamic World" on Saturday in New York City, Al Arabiya reported Saturday. Representatives of ....
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2 die in Denmark after car hits race officials
Date: 2017-09-16 21:39:46 GMT - Denmark - World - SN:70 - ID:6994467
COPENHAGEN, Sept 16 (MENA) - Two race officials died Saturday after being hit by a rally car which came off the road in western Denmark, Fox News reported. Danish police said the car was driven by a 73-year-old male and 22-year-old female ....
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Russian trainer aircraft crashes; pilots rescued
Date: 2017-09-16 17:20:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:61 - ID:6994276
MOSCOW, Sept 16 (MENA) - A trainer aircraft on Saturday crashed near the town of Borisoglebsk, western Russia, the Defense Ministry said. "The search and rescue team has evacuated the pilots of the Yak-130 that crashed near Borisoglebsk to the ....
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British police arrest 18-year-old in connection with London Tube attack
Date: 2017-09-16 15:14:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:53 - ID:6994079
LONDON, Sept 16 (MENA) - British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover on Saturday in a “significant” development in the hunt for the people behind a London commuter train bombing that injured 30 people a day earlier, ....
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UK Cobra meeting keeps terrorist threat level at “critical”
Date: 2017-09-16 14:02:25 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:45 - ID:6993906
LONDON, Sept 16 (MENA) – UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd chaired a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee and it concluded the UK terrorist threat level should remain at "critical", the BBC News reported. It had been raised to that ....
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British amb. to Libya survives London terrorist attack
Date: 2017-09-16 13:09:42 GMT - Libya - World - SN:41 - ID:6993705
TRIPOLI, Sept 16 (MENA) - British Ambassador to Libya Peter Millett said that he was among the passengers of London Tube which was targeted by an explosive charge on Friday. Millett wrote on his Twitter account: "I was on the train at Parsons ....
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First US airstrike in Pakistan after announcing new strategy
Date: 2017-09-16 13:08:14 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:40 - ID:6993614
KABUL, Sept 16 (MENA) - At least three Taliban militants were killed and two others injured in an airstrike conducted by the US in the vicinity of Kurram province in Pakistan, Pakistani officials said on Saturday. This is the first strike ....
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CIA wants authority to conduct drone strikes in Afghanistan for first time: Paper
Date: 2017-09-16 12:07:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:35 - ID:6993616
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (MENA) - The C.I.A. is pushing for expanded powers to carry out covert drone strikes in Afghanistan and other active war zones, a proposal that the White House appears to favor despite the misgivings of some at the Pentagon, the ....
