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  • British police chasing down suspects involved in London terror attack

    Date: 2017-09-16 07:02:35 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:8 - ID:6993061

    LONDON, Sept 16 (MENA) - British police are chasing down suspects after the explosion that took place on the train in west London, leaving 29 people injured, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said on Saturday. There are many ....

  • N. Korea seeks to establish ‘equilibrium of force’ with US – Kim Jong-un

    Date: 2017-09-16 05:45:04 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:2 - ID:6993037

    PYONGYANG, Sept 16 (MENA) - Pyongyang must strive for parity of “real force” with Washington on the Korean peninsula so that US leaders “dare not talk about military options,” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told defense officials during the latest ....

  • US urges Iraq's Kurdistan to call off independence referendum

    Date: 2017-09-15 22:47:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:96 - ID:6993017

    WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (MENA) - The White House said on Friday the plan for an independence referendum in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region this month distracts from efforts to defeat Daesh and urged Kurdish leaders to call off the vote. “We ....

  • UN Security council condemns North Korea’s missile test

    Date: 2017-09-15 22:24:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:6993011

    NEW YORK, Sept 15 (MENA) - The UN Security Council condemned on Friday North Korea’s “highly provocative” ballistic missile test that flew over Japan and urging Pyongyang to take immediate action to demonstrate its commitment to denuclearizing the ....

  • UK terror threat level raised to critical

    Date: 2017-09-15 20:50:53 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:91 - ID:6992962

    LONDON, Sept 15 (MENA) - Prime Minister announced the country's terror threat level has been raised from 
severe to critical, the highest possible level, meaning an attack 
is "expected imminently", The Telegraph reported Friday. The threat ....

  • Israeli consulate in NY closes after threat against PM

    Date: 2017-09-15 20:22:30 GMT - USA - World - SN:90 - ID:6992966

    GAZA CITY, Sept 15 (MENA) - Israel's mission to New York was reportedly sealed shut on Friday night after a package containing white powder and a letter threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was received, The Jerusalem Post reported. The ....

  • We'll defy the world for a 'thousand years' says N. Korean official

    Date: 2017-09-15 20:21:27 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:89 - ID:6992958

    LONDON, Sept 15 (MENA) – A senior Pyongyang official said Friday that North Korea will defy sanctions “for a 1,000 years”, The Daily Telegraph reported. In a rare media briefing to a handful of reporters in Beijing only hours after Pyongyang ....

  • China urges UK to stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs

    Date: 2017-09-15 20:20:02 GMT - China - World - SN:88 - ID:6992886

    BEIJING, Sept 15 (MENA) - China on Friday urged the United Kingdom to stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs after the UK government released its latest six-monthly report on Hong Kong, Xinhua reported. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying ....

  • 29 injured in London tube explosion

    Date: 2017-09-15 20:19:33 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:87 - ID:6992878

    London, Sept 15 (MENA) - Twenty-nine people were injured in a home-made bomb explosion on Parsons Green Tube train in London on Friday, police said. Most of them had "flash burns", the police were quoted by the BBC News as saying. Eight people ....

  • Three NATO servicemen injured in Afghanistan

    Date: 2017-09-15 19:10:58 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:85 - ID:6992880

    KABUL, Sept 15 (MENA) - Three Romanian soldiers were injured in Afghanistan on Friday during a NATO mission in Kandahar region, the Romanian News Agency reported. "The servicemen were granted first aid in the field, then they were evacuated to ....

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