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  • 2 killed, 6 injured in suicide bombing in Afghanistan

    Date: 2018-01-12 14:26:30 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:43 - ID:7187448

    KABUL, Jan 12 (MENA) – Two people were killed and six others injured in a suicide bombing in Ghor province of Afghanistan, the provincial governor announced on Friday. The blast occurred by mistake inside a house of a suicide bomber, who was ....

  • Botswana slams Trump's remarks about immigrant countries

    Date: 2018-01-12 13:47:26 GMT - Botswana - World - SN:40 - ID:7187341

    GABORONE, Jan 12 (MENA) - Botswana summoned the US ambassador there in an official response to US President Donald Trump's remarks and description of immigrant countries as "shitholes," The Washington Post reported on Friday. The US President ....

  • Trump denies 'language used' in remarks about immigrant countries

    Date: 2018-01-12 13:45:17 GMT - USA - World - SN:39 - ID:7187470

    WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump issued a denial Friday about the language he used in an oval office meeting where he reportedly described Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as "sh*thole countries," CBS News reported. ....

  • UN human rights office calls Trump's vulgar immigration slur 'racist'

    Date: 2018-01-12 13:07:47 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:36 - ID:7187339

    GENEVA, Jan 12 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump's description of immigrant countries as "shitholes" is racist, Sky News quoted a UN human rights official as having said. The US President asked why America should allow more people from "shithole ....

  • Afghan official: Taliban kill 3 policemen in country's west

    Date: 2018-01-12 11:51:06 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:31 - ID:7187183

    KABUL, Jan 12 (MENA) - An Afghan official says a Taliban attack has killed three policemen in western Farah province, ABC News reported Friday. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the attack took place early in the ....

  • Huge fire breaks out at Nottingham train station

    Date: 2018-01-12 09:16:27 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:19 - ID:7186888

    LONDON, Jan 12 (MENA) - Commuters are facing widespread disruption after a huge fire broke out at Nottingham railway station, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. Fire and smoke have been spotted in the station's foyer. The building has been ....

  • Trump cancels visit to London

    Date: 2018-01-12 08:11:01 GMT - USA - World - SN:8 - ID:7186774

    WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump has cancelled his planned visit to London next month to open the new US embassy in London. Al Hurra news channel released the news on Friday with no further details. British sources ....

  • Three militants killed in military operation in Bangladesh

    Date: 2018-01-12 07:54:20 GMT - Bangladesh - World - SN:7 - ID:7186772

    DHAKA, Jan 12 (MENA) - Three suspected Islamist militants were killed inside a building after security forces cordoned it off and opened fire in the Bengali capital, Dhaka, Bengal officials said on Friday. The operation was carried out in Dhaka's ....

  • Berlin urges US to separate Iran nuclear deal from Tehran’s weapons program, Syria

    Date: 2018-01-11 22:33:01 GMT - Germany - World - SN:113 - ID:7186640

    BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (MENA) - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called on the US to consider the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran as a separate issue from Tehran’s ballistic weapons program and its role in Syria’s civil war, Russia Today ....

  • Putin: Russia knows knows who staged attacks on Syrian base; it’s not Turkey

    Date: 2018-01-11 22:15:38 GMT - Russia - World - SN:111 - ID:7186634

    MOSCOW, Jan 11 (MENA) - Recent attacks on Russia’s Khmeimim Airbase in Syria were a provocation aimed at undermining the country’s relations with its partners Turkey and Iran and the peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis, Vladimir Putin ....

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