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Suspect in custody after shooting at Indiana middle school

Date: 2018-05-25 15:10:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:43 - ID:7416449

WASHINGTON, May 25 (MENA) - A suspect was in custody Friday following reports of an active shooter situation at Noblesville West Middle School in Indiana, Fox News reported. Sgt. John Perrine, the public information officer of the Indiana State ....

Prince William to visit Palestinian territories, Jordan, Israel in June

Date: 2018-05-25 13:39:25 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:35 - ID:7416233

LONDON, May 25 (MENA) - Prince William will be the first senior British royal to make an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, as part of a tour in June announced by Kensington Palace on Friday, the Daily Mail ....

Taliban closes 23 schools in Afghanistan

Date: 2018-05-25 08:08:36 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:11 - ID:7415834

KABUL, May 25 (MENA) - Taliban militants have ordered closing 23 schools over the past few days in northeastern Takhar province, depriving thousands of children of education, Pajhwok quoted an official as saying on Thursday. Takhar education ....

North Korea says still open to talks with US

Date: 2018-05-25 06:48:21 GMT - south korea - World - SN:4 - ID:7415753

SEOUL, May 25 (MENA) - North Korea said on Friday it was still open to talks with the US despite Donald Trump's threat of military action after cancelling their June 12 summit in Singapore, The Telegraph reported. Pyongyang described the US ....

France, Russia agree to create coordination mechanism to push forward political settlement in Syria

Date: 2018-05-24 21:59:23 GMT - France - World - SN:82 - ID:7415648

PARIS, May 24 (MENA) - France and Russia agreed to create a coordination mechanism between world powers to push ahead with finding a political solution in Syria, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Macron said the idea was to ....

Bomb defused in Germany's Dresden after mass evacuation, fire

Date: 2018-05-24 19:31:32 GMT - Germany - World - SN:70 - ID:7415528

BERLIN, May 24 (MENA) - A German bomb disposal team Thursday gave the all-clear after defusing an unexploded World War II bomb that forced a mass evacuation in the city of Dresden, Fox News reported. The operation had been complicated by a fire ....

US sanctions 9 Iranian individuals, entities as ‘facilitators’

Date: 2018-05-24 17:30:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:57 - ID:7415292

WASHINGTON, May 24 (MENA) - The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on nine Iranian individuals and entities for helping to supply export-controlled parts and services to sanctioned Iranian airlines, according to Radio Farda. The Treasury said on ....

Greek official: Turkey ‘unable or unwilling’ to understand Greek justice

Date: 2018-05-24 16:37:52 GMT - Greece - World - SN:56 - ID:7415158

ATHENS, May 24 (MENA) - Turkey seems “unable or unwilling” to understand that Greece’s judicial system is independent, New Democracy's shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos said on Thursday, responding to Turkey’s foreign ministry which ....

Trump cancels US-North Korea summit

Date: 2018-05-24 14:48:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:48 - ID:7415153

WASHINGTON, May 24 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump will not meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month for what would have been a historic diplomatic summit, CNN quoted Trump as announcing on Thursday. In a letter to Kim released by the ....

No Cyprus peace talks before Turkey's elections due in late June: Greek FM

Date: 2018-05-24 11:56:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:32 - ID:7414778

NEW YORK, May 24 (MENA) - Negotiations for a solution of the Cyprus problem will not resume before the Turkish elections, which are scheduled for June 24, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias was quoted by Cyprus News Agency Thursday as ....