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  • Biden joins international calls for Israel to halt planned Rafah offensive

    Date: 2024-02-13 08:04:14 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:12 - ID:10577979

    LONDON, Feb 13 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden has added his voice to growing international calls for Israel to drop plans for an all-out military assault on the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, according to an editorial published in the Guardian. ....

  • China urges Israel to stop military operation in Rafah 'as soon as possible'

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:41:37 GMT - China - World - SN:10 - ID:10578013

    BEIJING, Feb 13 (MENA) - China urged Israel on Tuesday to stop its military operation in the Gazan city of Rafah "as soon as possible", warning of a "serious humanitarian disaster" there if fighting did not stop. "China follows closely the ....

  • Ukrainian army: 84 combat clashes on front lines in past day

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:35:51 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:9 - ID:10578002

    KIEV, Feb 13 (MENA) - Ukrainian aircraft have struck 13 Russian troop concentration areas in the past 24 hours amid 84 combat engagements on the front lines. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform ....

  • Ukrainian FM welcomes EU Council's decision on frozen Russian assets

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:31:49 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:8 - ID:10577992

    KIEV, Feb 13 (MENA) - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the decision of the EU Council on the "frozen" assets of the Russian Federation. The minister wrote about this on the social network X, Ukrinform reported. Kuleba ....

  • Jailed Thai ex-PM Thaksin to be freed: Justice minister

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:27:18 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:7 - ID:10577968

    BANGKOK, Feb 13 (MENA) - Jailed former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is to be freed, the kingdom's justice minister said on Tuesday, possibly as soon as the weekend - just six months after returning from 15 years of self-imposed exile, ....

  • 1 dead, 5 injured in New York subway shooting

    Date: 2024-02-13 07:09:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:10577906

    NEW YORK, Feb 13 (MENA) - One person is dead and five others were injured in a shooting after at least one person pulled out a gun and began firing as a subway train pulled into a station in the Bronx borough of New York, CNN reported on ....

  • Zelensky briefs South African leader on preparations for Global Peace Summit

    Date: 2024-02-12 22:34:30 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:73 - ID:10577823

    KIEV, Feb 12 (MENA) - Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa of the ongoing preparations for the Global Peace Summit, according to Ukrinform News Agency. "I spoke with President Cyril Ramaphosa ....

  • Dutch court orders halt to export of F-35 jet parts to Israel

    Date: 2024-02-12 22:34:12 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:72 - ID:10577824

    AMSTERDAM, Feb 12 (MENA) - A Dutch appeals court ruled that the government of the Netherlands should halt shipments of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel because of the Israeli military's continued assault on the Gaza Strip. "The court finds ....

  • US should rethink military aid to Israel, EU foreign policy chief indicates

    Date: 2024-02-12 16:42:48 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:61 - ID:10577505

    BRUSSELS, Feb 12 (MENA) - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell made a thinly veiled call on Monday for the United States to rethink its military aid to Israel due to the high number of civilian casualties in the war in Gaza, The ....

  • Japan planning maritime security support for 4 Southeast Asian nations

    Date: 2024-02-12 16:33:16 GMT - Japan - World - SN:59 - ID:10577556

    TOKYO, Feb 12 (MENA) - Japan plans to provide long-term support to maritime authorities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. The move is aimed at countering China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. NHK has learned ....

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