ar
en
fr
World
- Service : English General
- Category : World
-
Cyprus asks US to lift embargo on military sales
Date: 2018-04-11 21:20:41 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:82 - ID:7345392
NICOSIA, April 11 (MENA) - Cypriot Defense Minister Savvas Angelides has asked US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Thomas Goffus to lift the US embargo on the sale of military material during a meeting they had, on ....
-
Mattis: Evidence of suspected attack near Damascus still being studied
Date: 2018-04-11 19:42:52 GMT - USA - World - SN:77 - ID:7345319
WASHINGTON, April 11 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated that evidence of what happened in Saturday’s suspected attack near Damascus is still being studied, Fox News reported. At a photo-taking session during a meeting with his ....
-
Philippine air, ground assault kills 12 militants
Date: 2018-04-11 19:03:39 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:75 - ID:7345256
MANILA, April 11 (MENA) - Philippine troops killed about a dozen members of a pro-Daesh group in air and ground assaults this week on the southern island of Mindanao, Euronews quoted the army as saying on Wednesday, in what it called preemptive ....
-
OPCW to hold meeting on Syria on Monday -- Moscow
Date: 2018-04-11 18:27:45 GMT - Russia - World - SN:72 - ID:7345282
MOSCOW, April 11 (MENA) - The Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will hold a special meeting on April 16 to discuss the Syria situation, Russia’s OPCW Permanent Mission announced on Wednesday. "A ....
-
UN condemns killing of peacekeeper in Central African Republic
Date: 2018-04-11 18:07:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:71 - ID:7345255
NEW YORK, April 11 (MENA) - The United Nations has condemned the killing of a Rwandan peacekeeper in Central African Republic, Voice of America reported on Wednesday. A statement by the spokesman for the secretary-general said the killing ....
-
Strike on Assad for chemical attack unlikely to advance wider US goals in Syria -- report
Date: 2018-04-11 17:32:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:68 - ID:7345225
WASHINGTON, April 11 (MENA) - Deliberations over how and when to impose punishment for the latest apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria have overshadowed a deeper internal debate over the Trump administration’s overall goals there, and whether a ....
-
Interior ministry advises foreigners willing to enter Egypt to apply via official website
Date: 2018-04-11 16:58:10 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:66 - ID:7345146
CAIRO, April 11 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry has advised foreigners willing to get visas to enter Egypt to apply via the state's official website (https://www.visa2egypt.gov.eg). The ministry made the announcement Wednesday after the US Gcl ....
-
Russian MP denies media reports that Assad left Syria
Date: 2018-04-11 12:21:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:7344515
MOSCOW, April 11 (MENA) - Russian MP Dmitry Sablin, who is coordinator of the State Duma group for ties with Syria’s parliament, denied media reports that Syrian President Bashar al Assad and his family have allegedly left the republic, TASS news ....
-
Syria: 500 Douma patients had chemical attack symptoms, says WHO
Date: 2018-04-11 11:33:19 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:36 - ID:7344291
GENEVA, April 11 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has said an estimated 500 people went to health facilities with “signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals” after the attack on the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria ....
-
Retired Indonesian general says he’ll run for president
Date: 2018-04-11 10:56:06 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:35 - ID:7344290
JAKARTA, April 11 (MENA) - Retired Indonesian Gen. Prabowo Subianto says he’ll run for president in an election due next year, confirming an establishment challenger to current president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, according to media reports. The ....
