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  • Merkel receives G20 summit leaders amid tight security

    Date: 2017-07-07 11:08:17 GMT - Germany - World - SN:29 - ID:6885630

    BERLIN, July 7 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel received on Friday the heads of state and government of the G20 summit held in the city of Hamburg, amid tight security and violent clashes between police and protesters. Hamburg police said ....

  • N. Korea slams UN sanctions at FAO meeting

    Date: 2017-07-07 09:12:16 GMT - south korea - World - SN:18 - ID:6885493

    SEOUL, July 7 (MENA) - North Korea's chief delegate to a recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) meeting has condemned the UN sanctions as an act threatening its sovereignty and economic development, Yonhap news agency quoted the country's ....

  • Putin arrives in Hamburg to attend G20 summit meetings

    Date: 2017-07-07 09:10:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:17 - ID:6885456

    HAMBURG, Germany, July 7 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Friday in the German city of Hamburg to attend the G20 summit meetings of the world's major industrial countries, which will last for two days. Putin will meet with ....

  • French authorities evacuate thousands of migrants northern Paris

    Date: 2017-07-07 08:20:26 GMT - France - World - SN:8 - ID:6885402

    PARIS, July 7 (MENA) - French authorities evacuated Friday 2,000 immigrants from a camp in northern Paris, amid heavy police presence. The evacuation operation, which is the 34th of its kind comes days before the French government unveils a new ....

  • US renews offer to cooperate with Russia on Syria

    Date: 2017-07-06 19:39:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:65 - ID:6885114

    WASHINGTON, July 6 (MENA) - The US administration renewed an offer to cooperate with Russia in the Syrian conflict, including on military matters, ahead of US President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin later this week, Fox ....

  • Trump, Merkel meet ahead of G-20 summit in Hamburg

    Date: 2017-07-06 18:59:54 GMT - Germany - World - SN:64 - ID:6885082

    BERLIN, July 6 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump met late Thursday in Hamburg with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his frequent critics on the world stage, just ahead of Friday's start of the G-20 summit of the leaders of the world's ....

  • Tensions cloud Trump meeting with China’s Xi

    Date: 2017-07-06 18:23:10 GMT - USA - World - SN:62 - ID:6884986

    WASHINGTON, July 6 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump is set for a tense meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, following North Korea’s successful launch Tuesday of an intercontinental ballistic ....

  • Amnesty International: Libya no place to trust with migrants

    Date: 2017-07-06 17:54:23 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:60 - ID:6884906

    LONDON, July 6 (MENA) - Europe has made a dangerous turn on the Mediterranean Sea as it looks to Libya for help in slowing the number of migrants attempting to reach the continent in flimsy boats, Amnesty International said in a report released ....

  • France set to ban sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040

    Date: 2017-07-06 17:29:19 GMT - France - World - SN:59 - ID:6884987

    PARIS, July 6 (MENA) - France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a "revolution", BBC News reported. Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as ....

  • Russia warns of chemical provocations by terrorists in Syria

    Date: 2017-07-06 16:37:04 GMT - Russia - World - SN:56 - ID:6884908

    MOSCOW, July 6 (MENA) - Syrian terrorists are preparing provocations with the use of chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta to ground the US airstrikes on the positions of Syria’s pro-government forces, TASS news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry ....

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