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  • Bulgaria, Romania partly join Schengen

    Date: 2024-03-31 09:16:39 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:14 - ID:10644762

    SOFIA/BUCHAREST, March 31 (MENA) - Bulgaria and Romania joined Europe's Schengen area of free movement on Sunday, joining the rest of Europe travelling freely by air and sea without border checks, AP reported. However, land border checks will ....

  • Vote in Turkey's local elections starts

    Date: 2024-03-31 08:39:47 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:11 - ID:10644727

    ANKARA, March 31 (MENA) - Turks began on Sunday casting their votes in nationwide municipal elections, according to Hurriyet newspaper. Polling stations open at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) in eastern Turkey, with voting elsewhere starting at 8 a.m. and ....

  • Ukrainian Air Defense Forces shoot down 18 air targets overnight

    Date: 2024-03-31 07:59:16 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:8 - ID:10644671

    KIEV, March 31 (MENA) - Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroyed over the past 24 hours 18 air targets; nine Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles and nine Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs, Ukrinform quoted the Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of ....

  • US ambassador lays flowers at site of Moscow concert hall massacre

    Date: 2024-03-30 15:23:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:45 - ID:10644277

    MOSCOW, March 30 (MENA) - US Ambassador in Moscow Lynne Tracy laid flowers on Saturday at the site of last week’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people. He was one of foreign diplomats in Russia who took part in the ....

  • Kremlin says Putin ‘deeply disturbed’ over Moscow attack

    Date: 2024-03-30 14:23:28 GMT - Russia - World - SN:39 - ID:10644122

    MOSCOW, March 30 (MENA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin puts up a tough exterior, but he is deeply disturbed by what is going on in the country, including last week’s deadly attack on Crocus City Hall, TASS quoted Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov ....

  • 72 combat clashes, Ukrainian Air Force launches 10 strikes on Russian positions

    Date: 2024-03-30 09:34:02 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:15 - ID:10643718

    KIEV, March 30 (MENA) - Over the past day, 72 combat engagements took place at the front in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force launched 10 strikes on Russian positions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its update on ....

  • Two wounded in Russian strikes on about 20 settlements in Kharkiv region

    Date: 2024-03-30 09:27:44 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:14 - ID:10643707

    KIEV, March 30 (MENA) - Russian forces launched artillery and mortar attacks on about 20 settlements in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region on March 29, wounding two people. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the region's military administration, said this in ....

  • Zelensky: 'We are trying to find some way not to retreat'

    Date: 2024-03-30 07:42:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:9 - ID:10643620

    KIEV/WASHINGTON, March 30 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a stark message to Congress in an interview as Russian missiles were pounding southern Ukraine. He said in the interview with the Washington Post newspaper "Give ....

  • Japan marks launch of land-to-ship missile unit on Okinawa island

    Date: 2024-03-30 07:29:29 GMT - Japan - World - SN:8 - ID:10643612

    TOKYO, March 30 (MENA) - A ceremony marking the launch of the Japanese ground force's first surface-to-ship missile unit on the main island of Okinawa took place Saturday, as Japan beefs up its defenses amid China's maritime assertiveness, Kyodo ....

  • IMF approves augmentation of original program by about US$5 billion for Egypt

    Date: 2024-03-30 07:24:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:7 - ID:10643610

    WASHINGTON, March 30 (MENA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board has completed the First and Second Reviews of the extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Egypt and approved an augmentation of the original program by ....

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