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  • 11 people wounded in Taliban attack on Pakistani university

    Date: 2017-12-01 10:59:17 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:26 - ID:7118096

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (MENA) - Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in all-enveloping burkas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least 11 people, police said. The Peshawar police chief said that Pakistani ....

  • Trump’s visit to UK delayed -- Daily Telegraph

    Date: 2017-12-01 09:24:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:23 - ID:7118091

    LONDON, Dec 1 (MENA) - US diplomats have dropped plans for Donald Trump to conduct a visit to Britain in January, the Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. Senior US officials said that delaying the visit has nothing to do with UK Prime Minister ....

  • Gunmen storm Peshawar training college

    Date: 2017-12-01 09:15:36 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:22 - ID:7118080

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (MENA) - Gunmen have stormed a college in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least nine people and injuring 25, the BBC reported. At least three men disguised in burkas arrived in a rickshaw and entered the Peshawar ....

  • Eight foreign militants killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan

    Date: 2017-12-01 08:30:08 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:7118001

    KABUL, Dec 1 (MENA) - At least eight foreign militants were killed in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, Afghan military officials said Friday. The airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of the restive Achin ....

  • UN envoy says Syria talks to go until Dec. 15

    Date: 2017-11-30 21:29:46 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:72 - ID:7117776

    GENEVA, Nov 30 (MENA) - The UN envoy for Syria says the current round of peace talks is to run through Dec. 15, as he downplayed the need for face-to-face meetings while playing up how the two sides were physically closer, ABC News ....

  • Turkey: Merkel to work for release of EU funds for refugees

    Date: 2017-11-30 21:08:30 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:71 - ID:7117814

    ANKARA, Nov 30 (MENA) - Turkish officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the two countries try to repair frayed ties, Fox News reported Thursday. Officials from Erdogan's ....

  • 5 killed in bomb blast in Pakistan

    Date: 2017-11-30 20:55:03 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:70 - ID:7117823

    ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (MENA) – Five people, including a peace committee member, were killed in an explosion in South Waziristan, GEO News reported on Thursday. According to the political administration of the agency, the explosive device was installed ....

  • OPEC, allies extend production cut through 2018

    Date: 2017-11-30 20:10:26 GMT - Austria - World - SN:68 - ID:7117795

    VIENNA, Nov 30 (MENA) - The OPEC cartel and a group of allied oil-producing nations agreed Thursday to prolong crude output cuts until the end of next year, extending a policy that has led to a significant rise in the price of oil over the past ....

  • New anti-Russia sanctions package designed to restrict gas supplies to EU — Medvedev

    Date: 2017-11-30 19:50:47 GMT - Russia - World - SN:66 - ID:7117645

    MOSCOW, Nov 30 (MENA) - The new package of sanctions against Moscow is aimed at restricting supplies of Russian gas to Europe, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in his annual live interview with Russian TV channels on Thursday, TASS ....

  • EU concerned over future of Iranian nuclear deal, Russian envoy says

    Date: 2017-11-30 19:00:49 GMT - Russia - World - SN:63 - ID:7117652

    MOSCOW, Nov 30 (MENA) - Like Moscow, Brussels is concerned over the fate of the Iranian nuclear deal, Russia’s envoy to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told a roundtable in the Federation Council (upper house of parliament) devoted to Russian-EU ....

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