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  • 13 killed in helicopter crash after Mexican quake

    Date: 2018-02-17 17:32:47 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:70 - ID:7250997

    MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 (MENA) - A military helicopter carrying officials assessing damage from a powerful earthquake crashed Friday in southern Mexico, killing 13 people and injuring 15, all of them on the ground, ABC News reported. The Oaxaca state ....

  • Russian envoy denies US possession of info. regarding election interference

    Date: 2018-02-17 17:28:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:69 - ID:7250972

    MOSCOW, Feb 17 (MENA) - Andrei Krutskikh, Russia's presidential envoy, said in the wake of fresh accusations from the US that Moscow so far hasn't seen any evidence of the so-called election interference. He stressed that Moscow gave ....

  • All Afghan refugees should return home in next 2 years: Ghani

    Date: 2018-02-17 17:15:12 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:67 - ID:7250967

    KABUL, Feb 17 (MENA) - Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said all Afghan refugees should return back to Afghanistan particularly from Pakistan in next two years. In a speech during a gathering to mark the 29th anniversary of the withdrawal ....

  • McMaster: Evidence is 'incontrovertible' that Russia interfered in 2016 election

    Date: 2018-02-17 17:10:48 GMT - USA - World - SN:66 - ID:7250936

    WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (MENA) - White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said a new round of indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation show “incontrovertible” evidence that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential ....

  • 'Reasonably-sized' earthquake strikes southwest Britain

    Date: 2018-02-17 16:36:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:61 - ID:7250883

    WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (MENA) - An earthquake has struck southwest Britain, the British Geological Survey has confirmed. It said the tremor was 4.4 magnitude and originated 20km north of Swansea, in Wales, just after 2.30pm today, according to Sky ....

  • Lavrov says US meddling indictments 'blather'

    Date: 2018-02-17 13:52:21 GMT - Germany - World - SN:50 - ID:7250607

    MUNICH, Feb 17 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday declined to comment on US indictments on alleged Russian meddling in US elections, saying that such accusations are nothing but “blather” until Moscow sees the facts in the ....

  • Two killed in Mexican helicopter crash, minister, governor aboard survive

    Date: 2018-02-17 09:34:47 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:14 - ID:7249970

    MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 (MENA) - A helicopter carrying Mexican Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete and Governor of the earthquake-stricken state of Oaxaca Alejandro Murat has crashed. The Mexican Ministry of Interior said in a statement that both ....

  • US drone targets Daesh hideout in Eastern Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-02-17 08:38:57 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:10 - ID:7249879

    KABUL, Feb 17 (MENA) - A US drone targeted a hideout of Daesh terrorist group in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, the Afghan government said on Saturday. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military noted that the hideout of the ....

  • Major 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico's southwest: USGS

    Date: 2018-02-17 08:31:22 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:9 - ID:7249877

    MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 (MENA) - A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has shaken south and central Mexico, causing people to flee buildings and office towers in the country's capital, and setting off quake alert systems, CNBC channel reported on Saturday. No ....

  • Ukraine says soldier killed, one wounded by separatists

    Date: 2018-02-16 21:45:20 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:68 - ID:7249650

    KIEV, Feb 16 (MENA) – Russia-backed separatists have mounted ten attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action and another one as wounded in action, Kiev Post reported on ....

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