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7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Caribbean Sea
Date: 2018-01-10 07:35:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:7183171
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (MENA) - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea. As of 10:48 p.m. CST, all tsunami advisories were canceled throughout the Caribbean and Central America. According to the National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC), ....
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Alps snow strands thousands of tourists in Switzerland
Date: 2018-01-09 22:48:20 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:95 - ID:7182843
GENEVA, Jan 9 (MENA) - Thousands of tourists have been left stranded after heavy snow in the Alps cut off towns and villages across Switzerland, France and Italy, the BBC reported on Tuesday. In the Swiss resort of Zermatt, more than 13,000 ....
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3 Taliban key militants arrested in Afghanistan
Date: 2018-01-09 22:15:47 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:92 - ID:7182798
KABUL, Jan 9 (MENA) - The Afghan Interior Ministry said Tuesday three Taliban key militants were arrested in a security operation in Southeastern Paktika province, the local Khaama Press reported. "Yesterday, three senior members of armed Taliban ....
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Germany indicts Syrian on charges of promoting Daesh
Date: 2018-01-09 22:06:42 GMT - Germany - World - SN:91 - ID:7182793
BERLIN, Jan 9 (MENA) - Prosecutors in Germany have formally charged a 37-year-old Syrian man on allegations of promoting Daesh, obtaining bomb-making instructions and other crimes, Fox News reported Tuesday. The man, who wasn't identified, is ....
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Seven, including five policemen, killed in Quetta suicide bombing
Date: 2018-01-09 15:56:44 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:74 - ID:7182606
ISLAMABAD, Jan 9 (MENA) - At least seven persons, including five policemen, were killed and 17 others injured on Tuesday in a suicide bombing near the Balochistan Assembly building in Quetta, Geo News quoted police as saying. The attacker blew ....
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France says 3 of its nationals back home after being stabbed in Israel's Eilat
Date: 2018-01-09 14:03:25 GMT - France - World - SN:65 - ID:7182126
PARIS, Jan 9 (MENA) - The French Foreign Ministry asserted on Tuesday that the three French tourists who had been stabbed in the Israeli port of Eilat returned to France after receiving appropriate consular support. According to the Yedioth ....
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Expectations from Pakistan about Taliban, HQN are straightforward: Pentagon
Date: 2018-01-09 13:49:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:63 - ID:7182194
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (MENA) - The United States Department of Defense officials have said the United States has straight forward expectations regarding the Taliban, Haqqani network, and other terror groups from Pakistan, Khaama Press ....
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Russia welcomes direct talks between South, North Korea
Date: 2018-01-09 10:35:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:24 - ID:7181721
MOSCOW, Jan 9 (MENA) - Russia welcomes dialogue between North and South Korea, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. "Of course, we welcome the direct contact between representatives of the two Koreas. We believe that only through such ....
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Washington apologizes for emergency helicopter landings in Japanese Okinawa
Date: 2018-01-09 08:06:37 GMT - Japan - World - SN:15 - ID:7181440
TOKYO, Jan 9 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis apologized on Tuesday for two emergency landings made by US military helicopters in a period of less than a week in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, Kyodo News reported. Japanese ....
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Pentagon: Mission in Syria confined to combating Daesh terrorists
Date: 2018-01-09 07:45:35 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:7181414
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (MENA) - Pentagon Spokesman Robert Manning said on Tuesday that the mission of the United States (US) in Syria is only confined to fighting Daesh terrorist group. Current operations taking place in Syria and Iraq aim to ....
