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  • Hurricane Fiona causing ‘catastrophic’ flooding in Puerto Rico

    Date: 2022-09-19 12:16:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:9780178

    WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (MENA) - Hurricane Fiona made landfall along the extreme southwestern coast of Puerto Rico, near Punta Tocon, at 3:20 p.m. ET Sunday with winds of 85 mph, the National Hurricane Center was quoted by CNN as saying on Monday. ....

  • German chancellor will start foreign tour Saturday including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar

    Date: 2022-09-19 12:16:28 GMT - Germany - World - SN:36 - ID:9780001

    BERLIN, Sept 19 (MENA) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will start on Saturday a two-day foreign trip that will take him to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Government Spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in statements on Monday that ....

  • Queen's funeral: Westminster Abbey service begins for monarch's final farewell

    Date: 2022-09-19 10:57:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:27 - ID:9779916

    LONDON, Sept 19 (MENA) - The funeral service to remember Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has begun at Westminster Abbey on Monday, the BBC reported. Among the guests are world leaders, including US President Biden and ....

  • China, Russia agree to deepen defense ties, hold more joint exercises

    Date: 2022-09-19 08:48:46 GMT - Russia - World - SN:18 - ID:9779591

    MOSCOW, Sept 19 (MENA) - Russia and China have agreed to deepen cooperation on defense issues with a focus on holding joint exercises, Al Arabiya News reported on Monday, quoting Moscow’s powerful Security Council. “The sides agreed on further ....

  • UK: Russia highly likely to have lost at least four combat jets in Ukraine in 10 days

    Date: 2022-09-19 07:49:05 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:15 - ID:9779477

    LONDON, Sept 19 (MENA) - Russia is highly likely to have lost at least four combat jets in Ukraine within the last 10 days, taking its attrition to about 55 since the beginning of its invasion, the British military said on Monday. There is a ....

  • Russian security chief arrives on visit to China

    Date: 2022-09-19 07:28:14 GMT - Russia - World - SN:13 - ID:9779414

    MOSCOW, Sept 19 (MENA) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has arrived in China, where he will hold bilateral consultations on security, TASS news agency reported. According to the Security Council’s press service, Patrushev ....

  • Germany renounces special relations with Russia by supplying weapons to Kiev - Russian amb.

    Date: 2022-09-19 07:09:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:11 - ID:9779404

    MOSCOW, Sept 19 (MENA) - By supplying weapons to Ukraine, Berlin refused special relations with Russia, which allowed Germany to be an intermediary in Moscow's dialogue with the West, Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev said in an interview ....

  • Putin-Zelensky meeting far from possible but UN ready to help facilitate: Guterres

    Date: 2022-09-19 07:08:28 GMT - Russia - World - SN:10 - ID:9779400

    MOSCOW, Sept 19 (MENA) - The potential for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is far from possible at the moment but the United Nations is ready to help facilitate such meeting, UN ....

  • US State Secretary urges Azerbaijan to adhere to ceasefire

    Date: 2022-09-19 06:44:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:9779362

    WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to adhere to the ceasefire, disengage military forces, and work to resolve all outstanding issues between Armenia and Azerbaijan through ....

  • Weapons supplies to Ukraine make West accomplice in Kiev’s crimes - Russian diplomat

    Date: 2022-09-18 18:45:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:61 - ID:9779035

    MOSCOW, Sept 18 (MENA) – Western countries’ supplies of long-reach artillery and rocket systems to Ukraine make them accomplices in Kiev’s crimes against civilians, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry ....

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