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  • US Senate approves $95bn aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

    Date: 2024-02-13 13:37:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:41 - ID:10578772

    WASHINTON, Feb 13 (MENA) -The Democratic-led US Senate has voted to pass a $95.34bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, amid growing doubts about the legislation’s fate in the Republican-controlled House of RepresentativesRepresentatives, ....

  • Brazilian official welcomes launch of COP Presidencies Troika

    Date: 2024-02-13 12:56:44 GMT - United Arab Emirates - World - SN:35 - ID:10578581

    DUBAI, Feb 13 (MENA) - Secretary of Climate Change at Brazil's Ministry of Environment Ana Toni Tuesday welcomes the launch of the COP Presidencies Troika between the UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil, who will host COP29 and COP30, respectively. She ....

  • European leaders call for stronger defense ties after Trump’s Nato remarks: The Guardian

    Date: 2024-02-13 09:21:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:20 - ID:10578122

    LONDON, Feb 13 (MENA) - European leaders have called for greater unity and military cooperation across the continent in response to comments from Donald Trump that threatened to undermine the basis of Nato, according to the Guardian newspaper. ....

  • Japan postpones launch of new H3 rocket due to bad weather forecast

    Date: 2024-02-13 08:29:42 GMT - Japan - World - SN:14 - ID:10578137

    TOKYO, Feb 13 (MENA) - Japan's space agency said Tuesday it has decided to postpone the launch of a new H3 rocket scheduled for Thursday due to a forecast of bad weather at a liftoff site in southwestern Japan, Kyodo reported. The new launch ....

  • Biden joins international calls for Israel to halt planned Rafah offensive

    Date: 2024-02-13 08:04:14 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:12 - ID:10577979

    LONDON, Feb 13 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden has added his voice to growing international calls for Israel to drop plans for an all-out military assault on the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, according to an editorial published in the Guardian. ....

  • China urges Israel to stop military operation in Rafah 'as soon as possible'

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:41:37 GMT - China - World - SN:10 - ID:10578013

    BEIJING, Feb 13 (MENA) - China urged Israel on Tuesday to stop its military operation in the Gazan city of Rafah "as soon as possible", warning of a "serious humanitarian disaster" there if fighting did not stop. "China follows closely the ....

  • Ukrainian army: 84 combat clashes on front lines in past day

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:35:51 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:9 - ID:10578002

    KIEV, Feb 13 (MENA) - Ukrainian aircraft have struck 13 Russian troop concentration areas in the past 24 hours amid 84 combat engagements on the front lines. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform ....

  • Ukrainian FM welcomes EU Council's decision on frozen Russian assets

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:31:49 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:8 - ID:10577992

    KIEV, Feb 13 (MENA) - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the decision of the EU Council on the "frozen" assets of the Russian Federation. The minister wrote about this on the social network X, Ukrinform reported. Kuleba ....

  • Jailed Thai ex-PM Thaksin to be freed: Justice minister

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:27:18 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:7 - ID:10577968

    BANGKOK, Feb 13 (MENA) - Jailed former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is to be freed, the kingdom's justice minister said on Tuesday, possibly as soon as the weekend - just six months after returning from 15 years of self-imposed exile, ....

  • 1 dead, 5 injured in New York subway shooting

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:09:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:10577906

    NEW YORK, Feb 13 (MENA) - One person is dead and five others were injured in a shooting after at least one person pulled out a gun and began firing as a subway train pulled into a station in the Bronx borough of New York, CNN reported on ....

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