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  • Sri Lanka: Left-leaning leader's coalition claims victory

    Date: 2024-11-15 10:04:07 GMT - Sri Lanka - World - SN:19 - ID:10953140

    COLOMBO, Nov 15 (MENA) - The left-leaning alliance of Sri Lanka's new leader has secured a landslide victory in the country's snap parliamentary elections, the BBC reported. Official results show President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National ....

  • Russia's war casualty toll in Ukraine up by 1,520 in past day

    Date: 2024-11-15 10:01:39 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:18 - ID:10953135

    KIEV, Nov 15 (MENA) - Russian forces incurred approximately 717,590 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and November 15, 2024, with 1,520 soldiers reported killed or wounded in the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Ukrainian ....

  • TV BRICS: Brazil expects more than 76,000 temporary tourism vacancies in the 2024 high season

    Date: 2024-11-15 09:44:11 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:17 - ID:10953117

    BRASILIA, Nov 15 (MENA) - Brazil's tourism sector is expected to create 76,500 temporary jobs between October 2024 and January 2025, representing the highest number since 2015, according to data released by the National Confederation of Trade in ....

  • Russian forces launch 466 strikes on 12 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region in past day

    Date: 2024-11-15 09:01:52 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:13 - ID:10953074

    KIEV, Nov 15 (MENA) - Russian forces launched 466 strikes across 12 settlements in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Thursday, November 14. Zaporizhzhia Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov reported the attacks in a Telegram post, according ....

  • RFK Jr chosen as Trump's health secretary

    Date: 2024-11-15 08:57:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:12 - ID:10953007

    WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump has chosen vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr as his new health secretary and said he will do "unbelievable things", Sky News reported. The news was announced by Donald Trump Jr on X, before ....

  • China, Peru to deepen comprehensive strategic partnership

    Date: 2024-11-15 08:56:53 GMT - Peru - World - SN:11 - ID:10953016

    LIMA, Nov 15 (MENA) – China and Peru welcomed the signing of a protocol on upgrading the bilateral free trade agreement during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit, according to a joint statement on deepening their comprehensive strategic ....

  • China arms itself for potential trade war with Trump - FT

    Date: 2024-11-15 07:39:13 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:8 - ID:10952991

    LONDON, Nov 15 (MENA) - China has prepared powerful countermeasures to retaliate against US companies if president-elect Donald Trump reignites a smouldering trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, Financial Times quoted Beijing ....

  • Israeli Right sees allies in Trump’s picks

    Date: 2024-11-15 07:37:28 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:10952992

    WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (MENA) – US President-elect Donald Trump’s emerging team in the Middle East appears poised to push US foreign policy into even tighter accord with Israel’s far-right government, challenging the marriage of convenience Trump struck ....

  • Russian air defenses destroy 51 Ukrainian drones overnight

    Date: 2024-11-15 06:58:32 GMT - Russia - World - SN:5 - ID:10952983

    MOSCOW, Nov 51 (MENA) - Russian air defenses destroyed 51 drones over various regions overnight, including 36 over the Krasnodar region in the south, TASS quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Friday. "Overnight, the Kiev regime’s ....

  • Trump taps Rubio for secretary of state

    Date: 2024-11-13 22:18:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:68 - ID:10951503

    WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (MENA) - President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed he'll nominate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to serve as secretary of state in his next administration, Hurra Channel reported. Rubio, 53, has deep foreign policy ....

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