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  • North Korea fires what appears to be ballistic missile: Japan

    Date: 2022-03-24 06:33:06 GMT - Japan - World - SN:6 - ID:9486567

    TOKYO, March 24 (MENA) - North Korea on Thursday fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile, Japan's Defense Ministry said. Since the beginning of this year, North Korea has conducted a flurry of ballistic missile tests in violation of U.N. ....

  • Madeleine Albright, first woman to serve as secretary of state, dies at 84

    Date: 2022-03-23 20:13:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:113 - ID:9486396

    WASHINGTON, March 23 (MENA) - The first female US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, has passed away at the age of 84. According to a statement from her family, carried by The New York Times, Albright died from cancer surrounded by family and ....

  • Zelenskyy calls on French companies to stop backing 'Russia's war machine

    Date: 2022-03-23 18:25:22 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:101 - ID:9486253

    KIEV, March 23 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday urged French companies established in Russia to stop supporting the Russian "war machine" and to leave the country, according to the Ukrainian news agency. "French ....

  • Singapore reports 8,940 new COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths

    Date: 2022-03-23 17:54:38 GMT - Singapore - World - SN:100 - ID:9486149

    SINGAPORE, March 23 (MENA) - Singapore reported 8,940 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, comprising 8,749 local infections and 191 imported ones, Channel News Asia quoted the Singaporean Ministry of Health as saying. There were six fatalities, ....

  • human remains, a black box found at Chinese plane crash site

    Date: 2022-03-23 16:47:31 GMT - China - World - SN:90 - ID:9486082

    BEIJING, March 23 (MENA) - Rescue teams have found human remains and recovered one of the black box flight recorders from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in southern China on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. The ....

  • NATO leaders set to OK ‘major increases’ of troops in response to Putin’s military operation in Ukraine

    Date: 2022-03-23 15:50:49 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:83 - ID:9485909

    BRUSSELS, March 23 (MENA) – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday the alliance is likely to bolster troops along its eastern flank, deploying four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, the CNBC ....

  • Lavrov: End of Russia-Ukraine talks not good for US

    Date: 2022-03-23 15:12:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:78 - ID:9485869

    MOSCOW, March 23 (MENA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that “is not beneficial for the United States that Russia and Ukraine quickly complete the negotiation process,” Sputnik reported. "It is difficult to get rid of ....

  • Poland expels 45 Russian diplomats for espionage: Moscow

    Date: 2022-03-23 14:53:05 GMT - Russia - World - SN:77 - ID:9485818

    MOSCOW, March 23 (MENA) - Poland has expelled 45 Russians with diplomatic status accused of spying, the country's interior minister said on Wednesday. Mariusz Kamiński said the spies were pretending to be diplomats and that Poland was "breaking ....

  • Russia's negotiations with Ukraine are difficult, Kiev constantly changes position - Lavrov

    Date: 2022-03-23 13:57:28 GMT - Russia - World - SN:68 - ID:9485714

    MOSCOW, March 23 (MENA) - Negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations are difficult as Kiev is constantly changing its position, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an address at Moscow State Institute of International ....

  • Sending NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine would be "reckless" and "extremely dangerous," Kremlin says

    Date: 2022-03-23 12:13:16 GMT - Russia - World - SN:48 - ID:9485278

    MOSCOW, March 23 (MENA) - The deployment of a NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine would be “very reckless” and “extremely dangerous,” according to Moscow, CNN reported on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists on ....

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