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  • NATO reaffirms support to Afghanistan after Kabul mosque attack

    Date: 2017-08-26 22:42:57 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:88 - ID:6963509

    KABUL, Aug 26 (MENA) - The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan reaffirmed the alliance's continued support to Afghanistan and the Afghan security forces as the alliance condemned the deadly attack on a mosque in Kabul city by Daesh ....

  • Daesh claims Brussels knife attack on soldiers

    Date: 2017-08-26 22:36:36 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:87 - ID:6963506

    BRUSSELS, Aug 26 (MENA) - Daesh terrorist group claimed on Saturday responsibility for a knife attack in Brussels that injured one policeman on Friday, Russia Today reported. Belgium’s federal prosecutors said that a 30-year-old man shot on ....

  • Somalis protest US military raid that killed 10 civilians

    Date: 2017-08-26 22:18:15 GMT - Somalia - World - SN:85 - ID:6963503

    MOGADISHU, Aug 26 (MENA) - More than 300 Somali community leaders and relatives of the dead accused Somali troops, accompanied by US military advisors, of having killed the 10 civilians during a raid on a farm early Friday in Bariire, 55 kilometers ....

  • Pakistan ready to work with US: Pakistani Defense Minister

    Date: 2017-08-26 21:27:09 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:83 - ID:6963456

    ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (MENA) - Pakistani Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir assured that Pakistan is ready to work with the United States, a statement which comes after US President Donald Trump revised the policy for the region, Geo news channel reported ....

  • Moscow summons Moldova's envoy over Chisinau’s initiative to withdraw Russian peacekeepers

    Date: 2017-08-26 20:41:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:76 - ID:6963455

    MOSCOW, Aug 26 (MENA) - Russia considers Moldova’s initiative in the United Nations concerning the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers as another hostile action aimed at hampering the improvement of relations between the two countries, Russian Deputy ....

  • King of Spain joins Barcelona march of defiance against terrorism

    Date: 2017-08-26 20:23:08 GMT - Spain - World - SN:75 - ID:6963449

    BARCELONA, Aug 26 (MENA) - Hundreds of thousands of people in Barcelona have marched against terrorism that left 15 people dead in and around the city last week, the BBC reported Saturday. King Felipe VI led the demonstrators, alongside Prime ....

  • American is 'caught in fighting' and killed in South Sudan

    Date: 2017-08-26 20:10:04 GMT - South Sudan - World - SN:74 - ID:6963440

    JUBA, Aug 26 (MENA) – The US Embassy in South Sudan confirms that an American man has been killed in the conflict-torn nation, Fox News reported on Saturday. South Sudan army spokesman Col. Domic Chol Santo said the man was killed Saturday ....

  • Myanmar army shoots hundreds of Rohingya

    Date: 2017-08-26 19:33:55 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:68 - ID:6963303

    NAYPYIDAW, Aug 26 (MENA) - Thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar were trying to cross the border with Bangladesh as fresh fighting erupted in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine state, India Today reported on Saturday. Hundreds of ....

  • UK must pay Brexit bill, says Angela Merkel

    Date: 2017-08-26 18:03:27 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:63 - ID:6963263

    BRUSSELS, Aug 26 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the UK on Saturday that it would have to pay a settlement to leave the EU, denying that the obligation amounted to a "fine". "This is about obligations that Great Britain has entered ....

  • Former Thai PM fled to Dubai: Senior officials

    Date: 2017-08-26 12:48:29 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:33 - ID:6962480

    LONDON, Aug 26 (MENA)- Former prime minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said on Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in ....

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