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North Korea fires three missiles, US says they all failed
Date: 2017-08-26 07:29:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:6962201
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (MENA) - North Korea has fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast, as the United States and South Korea conducted annual joint military drills that the North denounces as preparation for war. The US ....
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Trump declares disaster for Texas as Category 4 Hurricane Harvey looms
Date: 2017-08-26 07:28:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:6962199
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (MENA) - US President Trump declared disaster for Texas as Category 4 Hurricane Harvey looms. The storm posed the first major emergency management test of President Donald Trump's administration. The White House said Trump ....
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Brussels knife attacker shot by soldiers in Brussels has died: prosecutors
Date: 2017-08-25 21:33:40 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:75 - ID:6962098
BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (MENA) - Belgium’s federal prosecutors said that a 30-year-old man shot on Friday after attacking two soldiers with a knife in Brussels has died, The Guardian newspaper reported. The prosecutors added they were treating the ....
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Man holding knife arrested outside Buckingham Palace, two officers injured
Date: 2017-08-25 21:18:29 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:74 - ID:6962099
LONDON, Aug 25 (MENA) – A man has been arrested on suspicion of "grievous bodily harm" after an assault on police officers outside Buckingham Palace, the Independent reported on Friday. Two officers received minor injuries. The man was in ....
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Knife man 'shot' neutralized after attacking soldiers in Brussels, says police
Date: 2017-08-25 20:36:18 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:70 - ID:6962072
BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (MENA) – The Belgian federal police said a man was shot in downtown Brussels on Friday evening after he attacked the troops with a knife, Sky News reported. The suspect is in a critical condition after he was shot by soldiers ....
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Man shot after attacking Brussels troops
Date: 2017-08-25 19:43:35 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:67 - ID:6962058
BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (MENA) - A man has been shot in the center of Brussels after attacking two soldiers with a knife, the BBC News reported. Pictures from the scene show the area cordoned off with police and emergency services in the street. One ....
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US envoy to UN: Iran smuggles arms to Hezbollah for more than 10 years
Date: 2017-08-25 17:51:26 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:60 - ID:6961915
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (MENA) - US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that Iran has been smuggling arms to Hezbollah for more than 10 years, Sky news reported Friday. She also criticized Irish Major General Michael Beary, ....
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11 killed in China's Hato typhoon
Date: 2017-08-25 17:06:07 GMT - China - World - SN:58 - ID:6961860
BEIJING, Aug 25 (MENA) - Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a statement on Friday that Typhoon Hato left 11 people dead, one missing, and affected some 741,000 residents in the provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Yunnan and Guangxi ....
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Afghan President condemns attack on Shia mosque in Kabul
Date: 2017-08-25 16:16:59 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:52 - ID:6961803
KABUL, Aug 25 (MENA) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Friday the terrorist attack on a Shitte mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul. Ghani called on all Islamic clerics around the world to condemn terrorism, ABC News reported. He ....
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At least 20 dead in Shiite mosque attack in Kabul
Date: 2017-08-25 15:48:47 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:50 - ID:6961733
KABUL, Aug 25 (MENA) - A senior hospital official said at least 20 people were killed in the hours-long siege of a Shiite Muslim mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul, ABC News reported. Mohammad Salim Rasouli, chief of Kabul’s hospitals, said at ....
