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  • S. Korea to launch two more military spy satellites this year

    Date: 2024-01-08 08:33:27 GMT - south korea - World - SN:16 - ID:10524035

    SEOUL, Jan 8 (MENA) - South Korea plans to launch two more military spy satellites this year to better monitor North Korea, the state arms procurement agency said Monday, a move that could heat up the inter-Korean space race, Yonhap News Agency ....

  • UK minister embarks on visit to India to build closer trade, innovation partnership

    Date: 2024-01-08 08:15:44 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:14 - ID:10523936

    LONDON, Jan 8 (MENA) - British Minister of State for the Middle East, South Asia and UN Affairs Lord Tariq Ahmad arrived in India Monday where he will lunch two new UK-funded sustainability projects, according to the UK government website. Lord ....

  • Flight schedules return to almost normal at Tokyo's Haneda

    Date: 2024-01-08 06:51:18 GMT - Japan - World - SN:9 - ID:10523887

    TOKYO, Jan 8 (MENA) - Flight schedules have returned to almost normal at Tokyo's Haneda Airport six days after a passenger jet and a coast guard plane collided on a runway, NHK reported Monday. Today, the airport reopened Runway C where the fatal ....

  • Japan to back Ukraine's peace plan, foreign minister tells Zelenskyy

    Date: 2024-01-08 06:50:38 GMT - Japan - World - SN:8 - ID:10523896

    TOKYO, Jan 8 (MENA) - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Japan will support Ukraine's proposed peace plan to end the war with Russia, Kyodo News Agency reported. Kamikawa told reporters ....

  • Ukraine Army: 35 combat clashes on front lines against Russia in past day

    Date: 2024-01-08 06:45:58 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:7 - ID:10523894

    KYIV, Jan 8 (MENA) - In the past day, 35 combat clashes have been reported on the front lines in Ukraine. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its morning update posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. In the past 24 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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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