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10 people injured, 1 hospitalized as car jumps curb in Manhattan
Date: 2017-06-15 19:27:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:6856783
NEW YORK, June 15 (MENA) - The New York Fire Department said 10 people were injured, including one who was hospitalized after an SUV jumped the curb in midtown, New York, Russia Today reported. The crash happened on West 37th Street and Ninth ....
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US charging at least 10 Turkish security officers in embassy protest
Date: 2017-06-15 19:01:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:81 - ID:6856759
WASHINGTON, June 15 (MENA) – US law enforcement officials plan to announce charges Thursday against a dozen members of the Turkish president’s security detail for their involvement in a brutal attack on protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s ....
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Suicide bomber strikes near Shiite mosque in Kabul, 1 dead
Date: 2017-06-15 18:59:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:80 - ID:6856776
KABUL, June 15 (MENA) - Afghan officials say a suicide bomber struck outside a Shiite mosque in Kabul, killing at least one person and wounding five others. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish says casualties are expected after Thursday's ....
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US may attack Syrian troops with multiple rocket launchers — Russian Defense Ministry
Date: 2017-06-15 18:44:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:79 - ID:6856715
MOSCOW, June 15 (MENA) - The United States may attack Syrian government troops with the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers moved to the al-Tanf military base in Syria from Jordan, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. "The ....
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US sanctions Daesh coordinator of Paris, Brussels attacks
Date: 2017-06-15 18:41:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:78 - ID:6856573
WASHINGTON, June 15 (MENA) - The US State Department sanctioned three Daesh terrorist group members, including whom it said was a leading coordinator of the Nov. 2015 Paris attacks and the March 2016 attacks in Brussels. Mohammed al Binali, who ....
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US-deployed HIMARS artillery in Syria
Date: 2017-06-15 18:36:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:76 - ID:6856574
MOSCOW, June 15 (MENA) - The United States has redeployed HIMARS rocket artillery from Jordan to Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. "The US has redeployed two High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems from Jordan to a US special ....
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Egypt wins seat in Intergovernmental Committee for Protection, Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Date: 2017-06-15 18:34:29 GMT - France - World - SN:75 - ID:6856712
PARIS, June 15 (MENA) – Egypt has won the membership of the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. In the vote, held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Egypt got 83 votes ....
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43 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
Date: 2017-06-15 18:27:29 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:73 - ID:6856473
KABUL, June 15 (MENA) - The Afghan military killed up to 43 Taliban militants in air raids conducted in the restive Helmand province's Marja district, a statement by the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The Taliban movement has not ....
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Kabul attack: 'Blast and gunfire' at Shia mosque
Date: 2017-06-15 18:22:37 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:71 - ID:6856732
KABUL, June 15 (MENA) - There has been an explosion at a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul in an area dominated by minority Shia Muslims, officials say. The interior ministry has described the incident at the al Zahra mosque, located on the ....
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Senate passes sweeping sanctions bill targeting Iran, Russia
Date: 2017-06-15 18:05:31 GMT - USA - World - SN:70 - ID:6856707
WASHINGTON, June 15 (MENA) - A frequently polarized Senate found common ground Thursday as Republicans and Democrats joined forces to approve a sweeping sanctions bill that punishes longtime adversaries Iran and Russia with an array of financial ....
