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  • Afghan airstrike kills Taliban commander

    Date: 2017-11-24 13:46:44 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:60 - ID:7106884

    KABUL, Nov 24 (MENA) - An Afghan official says an Afghan airstrike had killed a Taliban commander and five of his family members in the northeastern Kapisa province, ABC news reported Friday. Spokesman for the province's governor Qais Qaderi ....

  • Suicide bomber kills police officer, his guard in Pakistan

    Date: 2017-11-24 08:22:52 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:11 - ID:7106144

    ISLAMABAD, Nov 24 (MENA) - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a vehicle carrying the deputy provincial police chief in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing him and his guard and wounding six others, Pakistani police said on Friday. The ....

  • 13 people killed, wounded as passenger train derails in northern India

    Date: 2017-11-24 07:41:57 GMT - India - World - SN:9 - ID:7106104

    NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (MENA) - At least three people were killed and 10 others injured when a passenger train derailed in India's Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, local media reported on Friday. The Vasco Da Gama-Patna Express train was on its ....

  • American F-22 jets to join massive air drills on Korean peninsula next month

    Date: 2017-11-24 07:32:07 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:7106092

    SEOUL, Nov 24 (MENA) - Six F-22 fighters from the US Air Force are scheduled to join the largest South Korea-US air exercise on the Korean peninsula next month, South Korean military official said on Friday. "Six F-22 fighters from the US Air ....

  • Deal on Rohingya repatriation inches forward, but hurdles remain - paper

    Date: 2017-11-23 20:41:17 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:7105936

    NEW YORK, Nov 23 (MENA) - Myanmar and Bangladesh said Thursday that they had moved one step closer to the possible repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh over the past three months, The New York Times ....

  • Russia hopes for constructive cooperation with Zimbabwe under new authorities

    Date: 2017-11-23 19:24:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:77 - ID:7105884

    MOSCOW, Nov 23 (MENA) - Russia hopes to continue constructive cooperation with Zimbabwe under the new authorities, both in the bilateral format and on the global arena, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by TASS as ....

  • Top Russian, Italian diplomats to meet on December 1

    Date: 2017-11-23 19:21:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:76 - ID:7105882

    MOSCOW, Nov 23 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with Italian counterpart Angelino Alfano during his working visit to Rome on December 1, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was cites by TASS as saying ....

  • Germany investing 79mln euos for Afghanistan

    Date: 2017-11-23 16:24:31 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:65 - ID:7105658

    KABUL, Nov 23 (MENA) - The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) says the government of Germany is investing 6.4 billion Afghanis (about 79 million euros) for Afghanistan. According to a statement by the organization ....

  • Russia bombs Daesh sites in Deir Ez Zor

    Date: 2017-11-23 16:21:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:64 - ID:7105625

    MOSCOW, Nov 23 (MENA) - Russian defense ministry said in a statement Thursday that its fighter jets bombed terrorist Daesh group's sites in the Syrian city of Deir Ez Zor, destroying Daesh gatherings and armored vehicles. The ministry underlined ....

  • Moscow considers US decision to replace Russian armaments in Afghanistan ‘counterproductive’

    Date: 2017-11-23 14:25:35 GMT - Russia - World - SN:57 - ID:7105216

    MOSCOW, Nov 23 (MENA) - Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second Asian Department Zamir Kabulov said that Moscow considers the decision of the US and NATO leadership to fully replace Russian armaments and equipment in Afghanistan with ....

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