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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), ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

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