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  • 7 dead, some 40 others injured in fire at lawyers' office building in Daegu

    Date: 2022-06-09 08:19:08 GMT - south korea - World - SN:20 - ID:9613502

    SEOUL/DAEGU, June 9 (MENA) - A fire broke out at a five-story building populated by lawyers' offices in the southeastern city of Daegu on Thursday, leaving seven dead and some 40 others injured, the Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Thursday, ....

  • US military plane carrying 5 marines crashes in California, Officials say

    Date: 2022-06-09 08:09:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:9613475

    WASHINGTON, June 9 (MENA) - A military aircraft carrying five U.S. Marines crashed in Southern California on Wednesday, The New York Times reported, quoting a spokesman for the U.S. Marine Corps. It was not immediately clear how many survived the ....

  • UN nuclear watchdog rebukes Iran for failure to cooperate with probe

    Date: 2022-06-08 22:50:04 GMT - Austria - World - SN:112 - ID:9613206

    VIENNA, June 8 (MENA) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticising Iran for failing to explain uranium traces found at three undeclared sites, diplomats at a closed-door meeting said on ....

  • Russia’s deputy envoy to UN warns of rising tensions on Korean Peninsula

    Date: 2022-06-08 22:23:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:110 - ID:9613189

    MOSCOW, June 8 (MENA) - Tensions on the Korean Peninsula will escalate further unless the political settlement process moves forward, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Anna Yevstigneyeva said at a UN General Assembly meeting on ....

  • Canada imposes fresh sanctions on Russian oil, gas, chemical industries

    Date: 2022-06-08 20:16:45 GMT - Canada - World - SN:101 - ID:9612971

    OTTAWA, June 8 (MENA) - Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly announced Wednesday that Canada is imposing new sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing ....

  • Rising fertilizer prices to lead to crop shortages, UN chief warns

    Date: 2022-06-08 19:54:45 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:98 - ID:9613088

    NEW YORK, June 8 (MENA) - A spike in fertilizer prices triggered by the conflict in Ukraine may lead to crop shortages, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at a briefing of the UN Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance on ....

  • US Treasury bans Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds

    Date: 2022-06-08 19:19:34 GMT - USA - World - SN:93 - ID:9613054

    WASHINGTON, June 8 (MENA) - The Biden administration has issued new investment restrictions that prohibit Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds, CNN reported. The ban is the latest step by US officials to crank up the financial pressure ....

  • Moscow threatens reprisals for U.S. correspondents

    Date: 2022-06-08 18:39:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:89 - ID:9612987

    MOSCOW, June 8 (MENA) - Moscow has threatened to strip the accreditations of U.S. journalists in Russia in response to the treatment of Russian reporters in the United States, Moscow Times reported. “If they don’t normalize the work of Russian ....

  • Defense ministers of Northern group reiterate support of Ukraine

    Date: 2022-06-08 18:26:08 GMT - Iceland - World - SN:86 - ID:9612966

    REYKJAVIK, June 8 (MENA) - Defense ministers discussed the implications of Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine which they condemned in the strongest possible terms. Russia‘s invasion has inflicted immeasurable destruction and suffering on the Ukrainian ....

  • S. Korea to provide $1.2 mln in nuclear industry aid to Ukraine

    Date: 2022-06-08 18:16:34 GMT - south korea - World - SN:85 - ID:9612812

    SEOUL, June 8 (MENA) - South Korea pledged to provide $1.2 million in additional aid to Ukraine to support safe operations of nuclear power plants of the war-ravaged country, Yonhap reported. South Korean representatives announced the plan during ....

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