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Fire at music pub in eastern Thailand kills at least 13
Date: 2022-08-05 07:44:33 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:10 - ID:9705332
BNAGKOK, Aug 15 (MENA) - At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured when a fire broke out early Friday morning at a crowded music pub in eastern Thailand, ABC News quoted police and rescue workers as saying. Video circulating on social ....
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Pelosi vows China will not isolate Taiwan as military tensions soar
Date: 2022-08-05 07:33:14 GMT - Japan - World - SN:8 - ID:9705285
TOKYO, Aug 5 (MENA) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed that China would not succeed in isolating Taiwan, as she capped off her Asia tour on Friday amid a flurry of Chinese military exercises that have sent fears of conflict in the region ....
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Pelosi, Japanese PM discuss Taiwan tensions
Date: 2022-08-05 07:33:02 GMT - Japan - World - SN:7 - ID:9705304
TOKYO, Aug 5 (MENA) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in Tokyo on Friday. At the top of their agenda was the heightened tension between China and the US, NHK reported on Friday. Pelosi and Kishida ....
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Pentagon again delays nuclear missile test amid Chinese drills near Taiwan
Date: 2022-08-05 06:15:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:2 - ID:9705256
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has again ordered the Pentagon to postpone a planned test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, this time amid increased tension with China over Taiwan, the White House ....
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Russian envoy says he is ready for dialogue with US on Iran nuclear deal
Date: 2022-08-04 23:06:22 GMT - Austria - World - SN:88 - ID:9705207
VIENNA, Aug 4 (MENA) - (MENA) - Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said on Thursday that he was ready to talk to all participants in the Vienna Talks, including the US, on the Joint ....
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Senate panel deadlocks on Biden's judicial pick with history of gun control work
Date: 2022-08-04 23:06:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:87 - ID:9705206
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden's nominee to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Rachel Bloomekatz, is deadlocked in a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee after Republicans were critical of her past work on gun ....
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Biden tests COVID-19 positive for 6th straight day
Date: 2022-08-04 21:01:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:85 - ID:9705121
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Thursday but feels “very well,” his physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a new update two weeks after the president first tested positive. Biden has tested ....
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Russia confirms commitment to space station
Date: 2022-08-04 21:00:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:84 - ID:9705120
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) – A senior Russian official on Thursday said that his country's space program intends to cooperate with NASA and other partners on the International Space Station for as long as technically possible. Earlier, NASA has said it ....
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Russia is determined to strengthen strategic comprehensive dialogue with ASEAN — Lavrov
Date: 2022-08-04 21:00:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:83 - ID:9705122
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (MENA) - Russia is committed to strengthening strategic comprehensive dialogue and expanding practical cooperation in all directions with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said ....
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US president denounces Russia’s nine-year sentence for Brittney Griner as ‘unacceptable’
Date: 2022-08-04 19:04:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:9704982
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (MENA) - US President Biden on Thursday called on Russia to release WNBA star Brittney Griner immediately, condemning a newly announced nine-year prison sentence for Griner as “unacceptable,” The Hill reported. “Today, American ....
