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  • Afghanistan hit by three earthquakes in less than 24 hrs

    Date: 2024-01-12 06:40:16 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:2 - ID:10530018

    KABUL, Jan 12 (MENA) - A new earthquake hit Afghanistan, hours after an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 on the Richter Scale hit the Hindukush region of Afghanistan in the early hours of Friday. According to the National Center for Seismology, the ....

  • Moscow to see Ecuador's transfer of Russian weapons to US as unfriendly move – amb.

    Date: 2024-01-11 22:47:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:86 - ID:10529892

    MOSCOW, Jan 11 (MENA) – Moscow is probing into reports that Ecuador is going to transfer Russian military equipment to the United States, Russia’s ambassador to Ecuador Vladimir Sprinchan has said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. "We are making ....

  • Russia: Agreement with Ukraine on international road transport finalized

    Date: 2024-01-11 22:46:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:85 - ID:10529891

    MOSCOW, Jan 11 (MENA) – The agreement between Russia and Ukraine on international road transport, signed in Kiev on March 21, 1995, was terminated on December 17, 2023, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Earlier, the Ukrainian ....

  • China launches commercial Gravity-1 rocket from sea

    Date: 2024-01-11 08:27:19 GMT - China - World - SN:13 - ID:10528658

    BEINJING, Jan 11 (MENA) - China on Thursday sent a sea-launched Gravity-1 (YL-1) carrier rocket into space, sending three satellites into the planned orbit, according to Xinhua. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center launched the commercial rocket ....

  • 213 dead, 52 missing in Japan's quake-hit Ishikawa prefecture

    Date: 2024-01-11 08:22:48 GMT - Japan - World - SN:12 - ID:10528655

    TOKYO, Jan 11 (MENA) - The death toll rose to 213 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa on Thursday, after a series of strong quakes of up to 7.6 magnitude jolted the prefecture and its vicinity, local media reported. A total of 52 ....

  • Russian air defense forces down Ukrainian drone over Rostov Region — top brass

    Date: 2024-01-11 07:38:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:10 - ID:10528652

    MOSCOW, Jan 11 (MENA) - Russian air defense forces on duty shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Rostov Region in the country’s south, Tass reported, quoting Russia’s Defense Ministry. "Last night, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a ....

  • Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine up to 367,620

    Date: 2024-01-11 07:28:01 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:8 - ID:10528638

    KIEV, Jan 11 (MENA) - Ukraine’s Defense Forces have eliminated 367,620 Russian forces, including 830 in the past day alone. That’s according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Ukrinform reports. Also, Ukraine’s defenders destroyed ....

  • Zelensky, Šimonytė discuss defense cooperation

    Date: 2024-01-11 07:24:05 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:7 - ID:10528633

    KIEV, Jan 11 (MENA) - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, currently in Lithuania, met with Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė. That’s according to the President’s Office, Ukrinform reports. Volodymyr Zelensky and Ingrida ....

  • Russia proves to be self-sufficient in every way, Putin says

    Date: 2024-01-10 18:00:31 GMT - Russia - World - SN:58 - ID:10528271

    MOSCOW, Jan 10 (MENA) - Russia has shown the whole world that it is self-sufficient in every way, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "The main thing that we proved to ourselves and the whole world is that Russia is a self-sufficient country ....

  • US Defense Secretary treated for prostate cancer, severe infection: Pentagon

    Date: 2024-01-09 21:08:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:79 - ID:10526830

    WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (MENA) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 for complications following surgery to treat prostate cancer, CNBC quoted doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as saying on ....

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