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  • US, Australia affirm commitment to deepening bilateral defense cooperation

    Date: 2022-12-06 06:16:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:9908515

    WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (MENA) - US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has met with his Australian counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Richard Marles, at the Pentagon to discuss the United States – Australia Alliance. The ....

  • Colombia landslide leaves at least 34 dead

    Date: 2022-12-06 06:05:44 GMT - Colombia - World - SN:6 - ID:9908510

    BOGOTA, Dec 6 (MENA) - Heavy rains in northwest Colombia sent a wall of earth crashing onto a winding road, swallowing up a bus and other vehicles and killing 34 people, VOA reported. The landslide Sunday evening prompted a large rescue effort, ....

  • UN: Missile strikes threaten millions facing cold, hungry winter in Ukraine

    Date: 2022-12-06 05:58:25 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:5 - ID:9908493

    NEW YORK, Dec 6 (MENA) - A UN spokesperson says that another wave of missile strikes in Ukraine has further damaged the country’s energy system, leaving millions of people without electricity and water as temperatures dip below freezing, the UN news ....

  • Putin renews ban on transactions with "unfriendly" foreigners’ stakes in companies

    Date: 2022-12-05 22:58:02 GMT - Russia - World - SN:100 - ID:9908417

    MOSCOW, Dec 5 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin extended a ban on making transactions with stakes held by foreigners from unfriendly countries in Russian strategic companies, banks and certain other legal entities until the end of 2023, TASS ....

  • Canada freezes assets of three Haitian businessmen over gang links

    Date: 2022-12-05 21:18:11 GMT - Canada - World - SN:97 - ID:9908360

    OTTAWA, Dec 5 (MENA) - Canada’s government said it would freeze any local assets of three high-profile Haitian businessmen accused of supporting the country’s armed gangs, the latest measure targeting those linked to the Caribbean nation’s criminal ....

  • Russia regrets that US keeps strategic dialogue in suspended state — Lavrov

    Date: 2022-12-05 16:59:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:78 - ID:9908144

    MOSCOW, Dec 5 (MENA) - Moscow regrets that Washington keeps the bilateral strategic dialogue in a suspended state, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in his video address to the Moscow Non-Proliferation Conference Monday, TASS ....

  • US to defense weapons, energy supplies to Ukraine

    Date: 2022-12-05 13:46:21 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:59 - ID:9907730

    KYIV, Dec 5 (MENA) - US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink said Monday her country will provide Ukraine with air defense systems and energy to protect its infrastructure. "As Russia targets heat, water, and electricity for every person in ....

  • Taliban: Daesh member arrested over attack on Pakistani embassy in Kabul

    Date: 2022-12-05 12:29:18 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:50 - ID:9907606

    ISLAMABAD, Dec 5 (MENA) - A Daesh member has been arrested in last week’s shooting attack targeting the Pakistani Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. ABC news quoted the spokesman for the Taliban government Zabihullah Mujahid Monday, as ....

  • Japan plans to almost triple missile defense units in remote islands

    Date: 2022-12-05 07:36:12 GMT - Japan - World - SN:14 - ID:9906764

    TOKYO, Dec 5 (MENA) - Japan is considering almost tripling the number of units in its Self-Defense Forces equipped with ballistic missile interception capabilities in the country's remote southwestern islands by the end of fiscal 2031, a draft of ....

  • Putin aims to 'weaponize winter' in Ukraine - Blinken

    Date: 2022-12-04 17:38:43 GMT - USA - World - SN:67 - ID:9906335

    WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (MENA) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday accused Russia of planning to weaponize winter by knocking out power and infrastructure in Ukraine Speaking to CNN, Blinken said Russian President Vladimir Putin "tried to ....

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