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With shutdown looming, House and Senate leaders agree on spending levels
Date: 2024-01-08 06:38:12 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:10523892
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (MENA) - Senate and House leaders announced on Sunday that they had struck an overarching agreement on 2024 government funding, but it was not clear whether they would be able to cement the deal and pass it into law in time to ....
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Japan quake toll hits 161 as snow hampers relief
Date: 2024-01-08 06:15:10 GMT - Japan - World - SN:4 - ID:10523870
TOKYO, Jan 8 (MENA) - The death toll from Japan's New Year's Day earthquake jumped to 161 on Monday as snow complicated relief efforts with more than 2,000 people still cut off and many others lacking power or in crowded emergency shelters, Kyodo ....
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Poland receives 32,800 Ukrainian refugees in past 24 hrs
Date: 2024-01-07 09:22:31 GMT - Poland - World - SN:15 - ID:10523025
WARSAW, Jan 7 (MENA) - Around 32,800 people have arrived in Poland from Ukraine over the past 24 hours, Radio Poland quoted the Polish border guards as saying on Sunday. Since February 24, 2022, the start of Russian-Ukrainian war, 18 million ....
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Elderly woman in her 90s rescued alive after five days
Date: 2024-01-07 08:34:35 GMT - Japan - World - SN:12 - ID:10522986
TOKYO, Jan 7 (MENA) - A woman in her 90s was pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides. The woman in Suzu ....
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Ukraine’s air defense forces down 21 of 28 Shahed drones overnight
Date: 2024-01-07 07:52:09 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:9 - ID:10522917
KIEV, Jan 7 (MENA) - Russian troops launched 28 Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones at Ukraine from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk region and three S-300 surface-to-air missiles from the occupied part of Donetsk region, most targeting southern and eastern parts ....
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Ukraine forces repel 3 Russian attacks near Bakhmut, capture prisoners
Date: 2024-01-06 23:13:42 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:69 - ID:10522776
KYIV, Jan 6 (MENA) – The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled three Russian attacks near Bakhmut and destroyed 33 pieces of Russian military equipment over the past day, Ukrinform quoted Volodymyr Fitio, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Ground Forces ....
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Turkey arrests 15 on charges of spying for Israel
Date: 2024-01-06 15:54:06 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:44 - ID:10522442
ANKARA, Jan 6 (MENA) - Turkish authorities have arrested 15 people on charges of conducting espionage for Israel’s Mossad, Turkish Minute reported on Saturday. Turkish security forces are continuing their search for an additional 13 individuals ....
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Zelensky calls on world to set up legal base for Ukraine to use Russia’s frozen assets
Date: 2024-01-06 15:49:25 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:43 - ID:10522443
KYIV, Jan 6 (MENA) - President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine calls on international partners to speed up the establishment of a legal base for the use of Russia’s immobilized assets in Ukraine’s interest. That’s according to Zelensky’s posting on ....
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Russian personnel losses in Ukraine increased by almost 300 per day
Date: 2024-01-06 13:55:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:34 - ID:10522253
LONDON, Jan 6 (MENA) - Russian personnel losses in Ukraine have increased by "almost 300 per day," compared to those in 2022, due to Moscow's growing reliant on a "lower quality, high quantity mass army." This comes from the latest intelligence ....
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Ukraine doubles gas imports from EU and Moldova in 2023
Date: 2024-01-06 08:47:46 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:13 - ID:10521775
KIEV, Jan 6 (MENA) - In 2023, Ukraine imported 4.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the European Union and Moldova, which is twice as much as in 2022. Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LLC said this in a post on Facebook, ....
