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600 homes evacuated due to Los Angeles wildfire
Date: 2017-09-02 19:09:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:48 - ID:6972774
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (MENA) – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said a wildfire burning through mountains just north of downtown is the largest in city history, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. Only one home has burned and no one has been ....
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Pope Francis urges Korean religious leaders to counter hate rhetoric
Date: 2017-09-02 19:01:49 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:47 - ID:6972761
VATICAN CITY, Sep 2 (MENA) - Pope Francis told Korean religious leaders to counter what he called the "narrative of fear" and "rhetoric of hatred", ABC News network reported Saturday. Greeting the leaders who are making an interreligious ....
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China launches emergency response for Typhoon Mawar
Date: 2017-09-02 18:14:07 GMT - China - World - SN:45 - ID:6972722
BEIJING, Sep 2 (MENA) - Chinese authorities activated a level III emergency response on Saturday for the approaching Typhoon Mawar, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said in a statement, Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. ....
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Russia’s new ambassador to US seeks promoting relations
Date: 2017-09-02 17:38:33 GMT - Russia - World - SN:42 - ID:6972686
MOSCOW, Sept 2 (MENA) – Russia’s new Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in an interview with the Russian television he is focused on development of the Russian-US relations and considers it necessary to stabilize them, Tass reported on ....
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Satellite images show massive fire destruction in Myanmar -- rights group
Date: 2017-09-02 16:52:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:41 - ID:6972676
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (MENA) - New satellite imagery shows several hundred buildings burned in Myanmar's Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said Saturday. Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township shows 700 ....
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UNICEF: 16 million children affected by South Asia floods
Date: 2017-09-02 16:03:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:38 - ID:6972650
NEW YORK, Sept 2 (MENA) - Nearly 16 million children are "in urgent need of life-saving support" as a result of the catastrophic flooding that has ravaged South Asia, according to the United Nations Children's Fund. "Children have lost their ....
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Putin not to participate in 72nd session of UNGA: Kremlin
Date: 2017-09-02 10:16:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:18 - ID:6972171
MOSCOW, Sept 2 (MENA) - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin does not plan this year participating in the session of the UN General Assembly due in September, the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov was quoted by TASS news agency as saying on ....
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Venezuela secret service holding ex-minister: family
Date: 2017-09-02 07:36:04 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:7 - ID:6971985
CARACAS, Sept 2 (MENA) - Venezuelan former defense minister Raul Isaias Baduel, a government critic whose whereabouts have been unknown for three weeks, is being held by the intelligence service, his family was quoted by France 24 as ....
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Erdogan slams US court indictment of Turkish security detail
Date: 2017-09-01 20:50:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:64 - ID:6971875
ANKARA, Sept 1 (MENA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking to reporters after attending Friday prayers, faulted the US justice system for indicting 19 people, including 15 members of his security detail, who allegedly attacked ....
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US security services to search Russian consulate in San Francisco on Saturday -- Moscow
Date: 2017-09-01 19:58:31 GMT - Russia - World - SN:63 - ID:6971858
MOSCOW, Sept 1 (MENA) - Russia's Foreign Ministry has said US security services intend to conduct searches in the building of the Russian consulate in San Francisco on September 2. "Alongside the yet another raid on expensive objects of Russian ....
