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  • Carter taken to hospital in Canada

    Date: 2017-07-14 08:49:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:15 - ID:6897068

    WASHINGTON, July 14 (MENA) - Former US president Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized after suffering from dehydration during a charity event in the city of Winnipeg, Canada. NGO Habitat for Humanity organisation said on Friday that the former US ....

  • US demands nations provide more traveler data or face sanctions

    Date: 2017-07-13 19:34:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:70 - ID:6896784

    WASHINGTON, July 13 (MENA) - The US State Department will require all nations to provide extensive data to help it vet visa applicants and determine whether a traveler poses a terrorist threat, CNBC reported on Thursday. Countries that fail to ....

  • Russian politician Nemtsov’s murderers handed 11 to 20 years in penal colony

    Date: 2017-07-13 11:18:04 GMT - Russia - World - SN:26 - ID:6895706

    MOSCOW, July 13 (MENA) - Moscow’s District Military Court has found guilty all the five defendants in the case of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov’s murder and gave them 11 to 20-year sentences in a high-security penal colony, TASS news agency ....

  • Dozens dead as floods swirl in India's northeast

    Date: 2017-07-13 11:12:14 GMT - India - World - SN:24 - ID:6895716

    NEW DELHI, July 13 (MENA) - Intense flooding in India's remote northeast has entered a third week, leaving about 60 people dead and nearly 2 million others seeking shelter on higher ground, ABC News reported Thursday. The disaster management ....

  • Trump arrives in Paris on two-day visit

    Date: 2017-07-13 07:57:16 GMT - France - World - SN:12 - ID:6895258

    PARIS, July 13 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump arrived on Thursday morning at the Orly airport south of Paris on a two-day visit. During his stay in Paris, Trump will take part in Bastille Day celebrations and celebrations to mark the 100th ....

  • Germany convicts Syrian refugee of preparing Denmark attack

    Date: 2017-07-12 22:21:36 GMT - Germany - World - SN:76 - ID:6894903

    BERLIN, July 12 (MENA) - A Syrian refugee has been convicted by a German court of collecting components to make bombs with the intent of carrying out attacks in Denmark, ABC News reported on Wednesday. The 21-year-old, whose name wasn't released, ....

  • US troops inside Raqqa, Daesh Syria stronghold: Official

    Date: 2017-07-12 21:19:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:71 - ID:6894966

    WASHINGTON, July 12 (MENA) - US military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqqa, Daesh’s last major bastion in Syria, Al-Arabiya reported. The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an “advise, assist and ....

  • French foreign minister to embark on Gulf tour

    Date: 2017-07-12 14:38:55 GMT - France - World - SN:44 - ID:6894311

    PARIS, July 12 (MENA) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will embark on a Gulf tour on Saturday that lasts for two days in order to call for calm in Qatar's crisis with its neighbors, a statement by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs ....

  • S. Korea, US, Japan vow 'maximum pressure' on N. Korea for dialogue

    Date: 2017-07-12 07:53:26 GMT - south korea - World - SN:7 - ID:6893528

    SEOUL, July 12 (MENA) - South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Wednesday to continue joint efforts to put "maximum pressure" on North Korea in order to bring it to the negotiating table, the Korean news agency Yonhap reported. The three ....

  • Police: 8 hostages killed, 3 wounded in Thailand

    Date: 2017-07-11 11:39:38 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:34 - ID:6892199

    BANGKOK, July 11, (MENA) - Eight persons were killed, including at least one child, and three more were wounded after being held hostage by gunmen in a house in the southern tourist province of Krabi, Thailand police announced on Tuesday. Police ....

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