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  • White House denies Trump asked James Comey to end Michael Flynn investigation

    Date: 2017-05-17 06:19:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:6814504

    WASHINGTON, May 17 (MENA) - The White House is denying a New York Times report that President Donald Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey — who he fired last week — to shut down the investigation into the administration's former National ....

  • Iran changes course of road to Mediterranean coast to avoid US forces

    Date: 2017-05-16 22:45:37 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:87 - ID:6814297

    LONDON, May 16 (MENA) - Iran has changed the course of a land corridor that it aims to carve to the Mediterranean coast after officials in Iraq and Tehran feared a growing US military presence in north-eastern Syria had made its original path ....

  • Trump stresses US support for Turkey in fight against terror

    Date: 2017-05-16 22:40:40 GMT - USA - World - SN:86 - ID:6814333

    WASHINGTON, May 16 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington supports Ankara in fighting terrorist organizations, especially Daesh and the Kurdistan Workers' Party. The United States supports any efforts to reduce the ....

  • McMaster: Trump’s sharing of sensitive intelligence with Russia was ‘wholly appropriate’

    Date: 2017-05-16 22:11:40 GMT - USA - World - SN:83 - ID:6814272

    WASHINGTON, May 16 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Tuesday that the president's decision to reveal highly classified information during a meeting with Russian officials last week was "wholly appropriate" — the ....

  • Trump to sign security, economic cooperation agreements with Saudi Arabia: White House

    Date: 2017-05-16 20:38:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:78 - ID:6814225

    WASHINGTON, May 16 (MENA) – US National Security Adviser Gen. H.R.. McMaster on Tuesday hailed the role of Saudi Arabia in fighting terror. McMaster made the remarks in a brief to the White House press corps on the US President Donald Trump’s ....

  • France's Macron to meet UN Secretary General

    Date: 2017-05-16 18:45:09 GMT - France - World - SN:71 - ID:6814224

    PARIS, May 16 (MENA) – French President Emmanuel Macron will meet United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, the CNBC TV reported. The Twitter account of the French mission to the UN said Macron wanted to meet Guterres to ....

  • Plane with 2 adults, 2 children from US missing in Bahamas

    Date: 2017-05-16 18:34:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:70 - ID:6814276

    WASHINGTON, May 16 (MENA) - Authorities were searching Tuesday in the Bahamas for a small overdue plane with four people from the US on board, including two children. The US Coast Guard says the twin-engine MU-2B was east of the island of ....

  • UN special envoy for Afghanistan meets Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

    Date: 2017-05-16 16:23:41 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:65 - ID:6814049

    KABUL, May 16 (MENA) - The United Nations special envoy for Afghanistan met on Tuesday with leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Kabul, Khaama Press reported. The meeting took place as part of the United Nations support to the Afghan ....

  • Turkish PM vows ‘cross-border operations’ if US assurance not given

    Date: 2017-05-16 15:48:03 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:62 - ID:6813981

    ANKARA, May 16 (MENA) - Turkey will not hesitate to launch cross-border military operations against “terror organization” if necessary assurances are not given by the U.S., Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said ahead of a meeting between President ....

  • Germany needs to choose between coup plotters and Turkey: Turkish PM

    Date: 2017-05-16 13:49:50 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:46 - ID:6813553

    ANKARA, May 16 (MENA) - Germany needs to needs to choose Turkey over Gulenist Terror Group supporters (FETÖ) who perpetrated the deadly coup attempt, if it wants to improve relations with Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım was quoted by Daily ....

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