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Austrian Chancellor praises new EU deal on migration
Date: 2023-06-09 19:31:51 GMT - Austria - World - SN:62 - ID:10202187
VIENNA, June 9 (MENA) – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer hailed a major deal to revamp the European Union's migration and asylum policy, Euronews reported. "It was important to show that Schengen does not work and that stricter rules are needed ....
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Canada supports peace, stability in Middle East, Africa, Central Asia
Date: 2023-06-09 18:21:21 GMT - Canada - World - SN:59 - ID:10202122
OTTAWA, June 9 (MENA) – Canada announced more than $69.5 million in funding for a total of 26 projects to support security, peace and stability in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. Through the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program ....
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UN says Myanmar junta halts humanitarian access to cyclone survivors
Date: 2023-06-09 18:20:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:58 - ID:10202129
NEW YORK, June 9 (MENA) – Myanmar's junta has suspended travel authorizations for aid workers trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people in the cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state, France 24 quoted the UN's humanitarian affairs office as saying on ....
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Belgium to supply Ukraine With 105mm ammunition
Date: 2023-06-09 18:17:49 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:56 - ID:10202128
BRUSSELS, June 9 (MENA) - Belgium will supply Ukraine with 105mm artillery rounds worth 32.4 million euros, US News quoted a spokesperson for Belgium's defense ministry as saying Friday. The ammunition will be purchased from Belgian industry and ....
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Ukrainian PM: Restoration of Kakhovka HPP and related works will cost about €2B
Date: 2023-06-09 16:20:47 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:49 - ID:10202016
KIEV, June 9 (MENA) - Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said that restoration of the Kakhovka HPP will cost approximately 1 billion euros, and other related works will cost the same, Ukrinform reported. "According to preliminary data from ....
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Taiwan delegation plans visit to Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant
Date: 2023-06-09 16:08:06 GMT - Taiwan - World - SN:48 - ID:10201995
TAIPEI, June 9 (MENA) - A delegation from the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) will visit the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan next week amid concern about radioactive wastewater, reports said Friday. Taiwan News said that in the aftermath of the ....
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Putin: Russian tactical weapons to begin to be placed in Belarus after July 7-8
Date: 2023-06-09 12:55:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:37 - ID:10201662
MOSCOW, June 9 (MENA) - The deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus will begin immediately after the facilities for them are ready on July 7-8, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander ....
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British PM: “Too early to definitively say” who behind collapse of Ukraine’s dam
Date: 2023-06-09 08:54:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:10201076
WASHINGTON, June 9 (MENA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it is too early to define who is responsible for the collapse of Ukraine’s Nova Khakovka dam, CNN reported. Sunak said it was “too early to definitively say” who caused the ....
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Japan parliament passes controversial bill to revise immigration law
Date: 2023-06-09 08:49:23 GMT - Japan - World - SN:13 - ID:10201029
TOKYO, June 9 (MENA) - Japan's parliament on Friday passed a bill to revise an immigration and refugee law to enable authorities to deport individuals who repeatedly apply for asylum status, despite objections from some opposition parties, Kyodo ....
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Russia's military death toll in Ukraine climbs to 213,770
Date: 2023-06-09 08:49:13 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:10200950
KIEV, June 9 (MENA) – Ukraine's defense forces have killed about 213,770 Russian troops since February 24, 2022, including 1,010 in the past 24 hours, Ukrinform quoted the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as saying. In addition, ....