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Pakistani army chief meets Afghan amb. in Islamabad on security issues
Date: 2017-08-04 16:48:22 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:49 - ID:6930458
KABUL, Aug 4 (MENA) - Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa met with the Afghan Ambassador in Islamabad Omar Zakhilwal, where they discussed issues of bilateral interests during their meeting in the Pakistani army headquarters, ....
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Lavrov to take part in Russian-ASEAN meeting
Date: 2017-08-04 15:56:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:6930423
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) - the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit the Philippines on August 6-8 to take part in a Russia-ASEAN ministerial meeting, a meeting of the foreign ministers of the East ....
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Vatican urges Venezuela to suspend constitutional revision
Date: 2017-08-04 15:53:05 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:43 - ID:6930418
ROME/VATICAN, Aug 4 (MENA) - As tensions and deaths continue to rise in Venezuela over the government's push to re-write their constitution, the Holy See has urged the country's leaders to hold off on the constitutional assembly, focusing instead on ....
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EU extends sanctions against Russia over Siemens
Date: 2017-08-04 15:45:51 GMT - Russia - World - SN:42 - ID:6930407
BRUSSELS, Aug 4 (MENA) - The EU Council said on Friday that the European Union extended the sanction list against Russia related to Siemens turbines supply to Crimea by adding three individuals and three companies, TASS news agency reported. "The ....
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At least six Buddhists killed in Myanmar in rising Rakhine violence
Date: 2017-08-04 13:38:48 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:32 - ID:6930213
NAYPYIDAW, Aug 4 (MENA) - Suspected insurgents killed at least six members of a Buddhist ethnic minority in western Myanmar on Thursday, the government and regional sources said, amid spiraling violence in troubled Rakhine state, The Jerusalem Post ....
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Libya remains top priority for UN migration agency: Swing
Date: 2017-08-04 13:36:42 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:31 - ID:6930177
GENEVA, Aug 4 (MENA) - The UN Migration Agency’s Director General William Lacy Swing returned to Tripoli earlier this week where he reiterated that Libya remains IOM’s top priority. In what was his second visit to Libya this year, Director General ....
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China's navy will seal off part of Yellow Sea for 'large-scale' military drill
Date: 2017-08-04 12:32:10 GMT - China - World - SN:26 - ID:6930104
BEIJING, Aug 4 (MENA) - China's navy will temporarily seal off part of the Yellow Sea to maritime traffic for "large-scale" military purposes, authorities announced, ahead of the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation ....
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Pakistan: New cabinet takes oath
Date: 2017-08-04 09:49:54 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:18 - ID:6929725
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4 (MENA) - Members of the new federal cabinet took oath at a ceremony organized at the Presidency in Islamabad on Friday morning, Dawn newspaper reported. Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to 46 members of ....
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Daesh behind foiled Australia plane bomb plot: Police
Date: 2017-08-04 09:45:43 GMT - Australia - World - SN:17 - ID:6929728
CANBERRA, Aug 4 (MENA) - A senior Daesh commander directed a group of Australian men to build a bomb destined for an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney, with a second poisonous gas plot also in the works, police alleged Friday. The improvised ....
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US will not recognize Venezuela's constituent assembly -State Dept
Date: 2017-08-04 09:13:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:15 - ID:6929724
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - The United States will not recognize Venezuela's new national constituent assembly, the State Department said on Thursday, calling it "the illegitimate product of a flawed process." Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ....
