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Egyptian, Russian defense, foreign ministers to probe uniting against terrorism - parliamentarian
Date: 2017-05-29 13:44:40 GMT - Russia - World - SN:47 - ID:6832682
MOSCOW, May 29 (MENA) - Member at the Egyptian parliament's defense and national security committee Ahmed el Awady said that the expected meeting between the Egyptian defense and foreign ministers and their Russian counterparts is considered one of ....
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Spain police: 2 Britons arrested for ramming pedestrians
Date: 2017-05-29 12:40:27 GMT - Spain - World - SN:42 - ID:6832549
MADRID, May 29 (MENA) - Authorities in Spain say the two men arrested for ramming into pedestrians in a southern coastal town are British nationals who appeared to be drunk. Eight people, including a newborn baby and the driver, were ....
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Trump: Fake news media doesn't 'want America to hear the real story!'
Date: 2017-05-29 12:39:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:41 - ID:6832610
WASHINGTON, May 29 (MENA) - President Donald Trump tweeted attacking the “Fake News Media” for criticizing his social media habits. “The Fake News Media works hard at disparaging & demeaning my use of social media because they don’t want America ....
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Reports: Britain’s MI5 to review handling of Manchester bomber “warnings”
Date: 2017-05-29 12:24:26 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:38 - ID:6832548
LONDON, May 29 (MENA) - Britain's MI5 intelligence service is to hold an inquiry into its handling of information surrounding the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi, after it emerged that it had been alerted to his extremist views by members of the ....
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Russia condemns latest North Korea missile launches
Date: 2017-05-29 08:12:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:10 - ID:6831963
MOSCOW, May 29 (MENA) - Russia condemned on Monday the latest missile launches conducted by North Korea, while calling the world community for restraint, RIA news agency quoted a deputy Russian foreign minister as saying. "We are at the same time ....
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Pope says Egyptian Copts killed by Daesh were 'martyrs'
Date: 2017-05-28 21:55:19 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:83 - ID:6831860
VATICAN, May 28 (MENA) - For the second day in a row, Pope Francis has expressed his solidarity with Egypt's Coptic Christians following an attack on a bus carrying Coptic pilgrims to a remote desert monastery, ABC News said. Francis led ....
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Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department -- officials
Date: 2017-05-28 21:33:37 GMT - USA - World - SN:80 - ID:6831822
WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two US officials were quoted by Voice of America as saying, apparently breaking with a bipartisan ....
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Merkel says Europe can’t rely on ‘others’
Date: 2017-05-28 21:22:59 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:79 - ID:6831796
LONDON, May 28 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday declared a new chapter in US-European relations after contentious meetings with US President Donald Trump last week, saying that Europe “really must take our fate into our own ....
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417,000 South Sudanese refugees in Sudan: UNHCR
Date: 2017-05-28 20:36:27 GMT - Sudan - World - SN:76 - ID:6831797
KHARTOUM, May 28 (MENA) - More than 417,000 South Sudanese refugees are sheltering in Sudan since conflict broke out in December 2013, the UN has said. Almost 137,000 refugees arrived from South Sudan so far this year, which is more than the ....
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Daesh militants among 50 killed in joint operations of Afghan forces
Date: 2017-05-28 19:35:50 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:73 - ID:6831767
MOSCOW, May 28 (MENA) - At least 50 insurgents including four loyalists of the Daesh terrorist group were killed during the joint operations of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said ....