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  • Ukraine's air defense units down 48 drones, 5 cruise missiles overnight

    Date: 2024-06-07 08:24:09 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:18 - ID:10738217

    KIEV, June 7 (MENA) - Ukraine's air defense forces shot down five cruise missiles and 48 Shahed-131/136 attack drones on the night of June 6 to 7. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk said this in a post on Telegram, ....

  • Canadian police bust migrant smuggling ring sneaking people into US

    Date: 2024-06-07 08:22:47 GMT - Canada - World - SN:20 - ID:10738161

    OTTAWA, June 7 (MENA) – Canadian police announced the dismantling of a vast migrant smuggling network accused of sneaking hundreds of people from Canada into the United States, NDTV reported. Four people were arrested while arrest warrants were ....

  • Russian war losses in Ukraine rise to 516,080

    Date: 2024-06-07 07:29:51 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:16 - ID:10738170

    KIEV, June 7 (MENA) - Russia's overall combat losses in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and June 7, 2024 amounted to about 516,080, including 1,080 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces ....

  • Ukrainian General Staff: 90 combat clashes in past day

    Date: 2024-06-07 07:28:04 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:15 - ID:10738165

    KIEV, June 7 (MENA) - In the past day, 90 combat engagements took place on the front lines over the last day, most of them in the Pokrovsk sector. Andriy Kovaliov, the spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this on ....

  • South Korean president to pay state visits to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan next week

    Date: 2024-06-07 07:26:05 GMT - south korea - World - SN:14 - ID:10738160

    SEOUL, June 7 (MENA) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will pay state visits to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next week, Yonhap quoted his office as saying Friday. Yoon will embark on the six-day trip Monday, accompanied by first ....

  • Israel strike on UN school that left dozens dead used US munitions, CNN analysis finds

    Date: 2024-06-07 07:06:28 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:10738127

    WASHINGTON, June 7 (MENA) – Dozens of people were killed by an overnight Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, authorities said, in an attack that CNN analysis found was conducted with a US-made weapon. The school, run ....

  • UN General Assembly elects 5 non-permanent members to UN Security Council

    Date: 2024-06-06 20:23:53 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:56 - ID:10737937

    NEW YORK, June 6 (MENA) - The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected five non-permanent members to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2025-2026 term. Somalia, Pakistan, Panama, Greece and Denmark won elections at the General Assembly, ....

  • US imposes sanctions on Palestinian group Lions' Den over West Bank violence

    Date: 2024-06-06 18:14:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:53 - ID:10737817

    WASHINGTON, June 6 (MENA) - The Department of State imposed on Thursday sanctions on “Lions’ Den,” a Palestinian group centered in Nablus’s Old City in the West Bank. The ministry said in a statement on its official website that, in October 2022, ....

  • WHO: Unsafe food makes 100 million people ill each year in region

    Date: 2024-06-06 15:23:23 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:44 - ID:10737689

    CAIRO, June 6 (MENA) - "Prepare for the unexpected" is the theme of the sixth World Food Safety Day, marked Thursday by the United Nations. Food businesses, governments and consumers can all help prevent food contamination and foodborne ....

  • Break free from pollution, climate chaos and ‘biodiversity decimation’, UN chief urges

    Date: 2024-06-05 09:57:27 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:26 - ID:10735456

    NEW YORK, June 5 (MENA) - The UN Secretary General has called for safeguarding Earth’s vital ecosystems from rampant pollution, worsening climate impacts and “biodiversity decimation," UN News said. In a message marking Wednesday’s World ....

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