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  • 4 killed in hotel blaze in Czech

    Date: 2018-01-21 18:40:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:102 - ID:7203549

    PRAGUE, Jan 21 (MENA) - The blaze, which broke out at Eurostars David Hotel in the Czech capital of Prague on Saturday evening, has left four people dead, euronews reported Sunday. Two people were confirmed dead Saturday: a man from Germany and a ....

  • Macron shares African outrage on Trump’s vulgar language

    Date: 2018-01-21 14:56:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:84 - ID:7203172

    LONDON, Jan 21 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he shared the outrage of many African countries in response to President Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about the continent, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Trump referred to ....

  • Agriculture min. probes with French, Macedonian counterparts joint coop.

    Date: 2018-01-21 14:09:12 GMT - Germany - World - SN:71 - ID:7202993

    BERLIN, Jan 21 (MENA) - Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister Abdel Mon'em el Bana held meetings with a number of high-level officials at the end of his visit to the German capital Berlin. El Bana met with the agriculture ministers of ....

  • Taliban claims responsibility for Intercontinental hotel attack

    Date: 2018-01-21 10:14:15 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:26 - ID:7202341

    KABUL, Jan 21 (MENA) - The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel attack that left at least five people, including a foreign national, dead, ABC news reported. The Afghan government said the 12-hour siege had ....

  • US says Turkey's aim behind Afrin military operation unknown

    Date: 2018-01-21 08:58:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:7202119

    WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (MENA) - A senior US military commander has said that Washington does not know Turkey's intentions behind a military operation Ankara had started in Syria's border city of Afrin. The commander of the US Central Command, General ....

  • US says monitoring situation in Kabul following hotel attack

    Date: 2018-01-21 08:04:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:7202053

    WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (MENA) - An official at the US Department of State has said that Washington is following up the developments of an attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul. The official told ABC News they "are monitoring the situation and are in ....

  • 2 gunmen killed in attack on hotel in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-01-20 22:11:24 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:75 - ID:7201849

    KABUL, Jan 20 (MENA) - At least four gunmen have launched an attack on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, an Afghani official was quoted by the BBC Saturday. Special forces killed two of the attackers, an interior ministry spokesman said, and were ....

  • Lavrov, Tillerson discuss stability in Syria

    Date: 2018-01-20 19:47:24 GMT - Russia - World - SN:65 - ID:7201712

    MOSCOW, Jan 20 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US State Secretary Rex Tillerson discussed during Saturday’s phone talk the stability in north Syria and a peaceful settlement due to be brokered by the Syrian National Dialogue ....

  • Brazilian state decrees emergency over yellow fever outbreak

    Date: 2018-01-20 19:15:21 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:62 - ID:7201676

    BRASILIA, Jan 20 (MENA) - The government of Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais has decreed a state of emergency for its public health system due to an outbreak of yellow fever in 94 of its 853 cities, ABC news reported Saturday. Since ....

  • Trump, aides seek to resolve shutdown with congressional leaders

    Date: 2018-01-20 18:01:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:57 - ID:7201632

    WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump spoke with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Saturday to discuss measures to end the government shutdown. They spoke in the morning, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley was ....

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