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  • 22 injured in two-train collision in Austria

    Date: 2018-02-12 18:51:07 GMT - Austria - World - SN:88 - ID:7242401

    VIENNA, Feb 12 (MENA) - A fatal train crash has brought transport to a standstill in Austria, leaving one woman killed and 22 others injured, Euronews reported Monday Two passenger trains collided in the southeastern state of Styria. Three ....

  • Oxfam's deputy chief resigns over sex scandal

    Date: 2018-02-12 17:51:57 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:86 - ID:7242380

    LONDON, Feb 12 (MENA) - Oxfam's deputy chief executive has resigned amid a growing sex crimes scandal involving the organization's aid workers in Haiti and Chad, CNN reported Monday. Penny Lawrence is the first executive at the organization to ....

  • Black box recovered from Russia's An-148 crash site near Moscow

    Date: 2018-02-12 08:58:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:17 - ID:7240880

    MOSCOW, Feb 12 (MENA) - Russian emergency service workers have found a black box at the crash site of the An-148 plane, Sputnik reported on Monday. “The second ‘black box’ has been found,” the spokesperson of the operation headquarters told ....

  • London City Airport shut as WW2 bomb found in Thames

    Date: 2018-02-12 06:56:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:4 - ID:7240778

    LONDON, Feb 12 (MENA) - London City Airport has been closed after a World War Two bomb was found nearby in the River Thames, the BBC reported on Monday. The airport will be shut all day and all flights cancelled, affecting up to 16,000 ....

  • Taliban local leaders among 11 killed, wounded in military operations northeast of Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-02-11 22:55:58 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:109 - ID:7240311

    KABUL, Feb 11 (MENA) - At least eleven Taliban local commanders and leaders were killed and wounded during ongoing operations in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan, Afghan Khaama Press reported on Sunday. The 209th Shaheen Corps of the ....

  • Russian military police unit returns to Chechnya after mission in Syria's Aleppo - Kadyrov

    Date: 2018-02-11 22:51:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:108 - ID:7240365

    MOSCOW, Feb 11 (MENA) - Some 400 military police officers from Chechnya have returned home following an 18-month mission in Syria, Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov said, Russian Interfax news agency reported on Sunday. "Personnel of the Russian ....

  • Putin postpones working trip to Sochi over An-148 crash near Moscow

    Date: 2018-02-11 22:39:35 GMT - Russia - World - SN:107 - ID:7240398

    MOSCOW, Feb 11 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed his working trip to Sochi over possible necessity to coordinate the work of a government commission after an An-148 passenger plane crash near Moscow, TASS quoted Putin’s press ....

  • Two bodies of Russian crashed plane found

    Date: 2018-02-11 21:03:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:100 - ID:7240411

    MOSCOW, Feb 11 (MENA) - Two bodies and one flight recorder have been recovered from the crash site of the Russian crashed plane, TASS news agency reported Sunday. A Russian passenger plane operated by Saratov Airlines crashed near Moscow, as all ....

  • Russia's Saratov Airlines denies any technical problems from crashed plane

    Date: 2018-02-11 17:33:52 GMT - Russia - World - SN:82 - ID:7240366

    MOSCOW, Feb 11 (MENA) - Spokeswoman for Russia's Saratov Airlines Elena Voronova said there had been no concerns about the technical condition of the plane that crashed in Moscow earlier on Sunday. According to the Independent, the plane had went ....

  • Cyprus is taking all necessary diplomatic steps against Turkish provocations, Cypriot President says

    Date: 2018-02-11 17:15:50 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:81 - ID:7240363

    NICOSIA, Feb 11 (MENA) - Cyprus is taking all necessary diplomatic steps in a calm manner in order to avoid an escalation, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said. He was referring to Turkey’s provocative actions in Cyprus’ EEZ during the ....

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