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  • Barricades come down in Kiev

    Date: 2014-08-09 15:53:36 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:67 - ID:865900

    KIEV, Aug 9 (MENA) - City workers and volunteers have removed the last of the barricades that had blocked the main street of Ukraine's capital since protests that forced a change of government arose late last year, Fox News reported. Protesters ....

  • Bus crashes in China, casualties reported

    Date: 2014-08-09 15:52:24 GMT - China - World - SN:66 - ID:865924

    BEIJING, Aug 9 (MENA) - A tour bus carrying about 40 people fell off a valley following a three-vehicle pile-up Saturday in southwest China's Tibet. Casualties were reported, authorities were quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying. The tour bus ....

  • China sends remote-sensing satellite into orbit

    Date: 2014-08-09 15:03:29 GMT - China - World - SN:60 - ID:865880

    BEIJING, Aug 9 (MENA) – China on Saturday successfully launched a Long March 4C carrier rocket with the Yaogan XX satellite, Ria Novosti news agency reported. The carrier lifted off at 1:45 p.m. local time (05:45 GMT) from the launch pad at ....

  • Russian press union exerts efforts to find photographer missing in Ukraine

    Date: 2014-08-08 21:13:16 GMT - Russia - World - SN:111 - ID:864936

    MOSCOW, Aug 8 (MENA) - Russia’s Union of Journalists is exerting efforts to find a photographer from Russia Today news agency who has been missing in eastern Ukraine for the past three days, Itar-Tass news agency said quoting the Union’s press ....

  • Georgia celebrates 6th anniversary of Georgia-Russia War

    Date: 2014-08-08 20:28:55 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:106 - ID:864890

    CAIRO, Aug 8 (MENA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia celebrated on Friday the six anniversary of the Georgia-Russia War in August 2008. The Ministry has released a special statement on the celebration saying "7 August 20`14 marks the ....

  • Accident at Bulgarian military plant causes explosion, 10 injured

    Date: 2014-08-08 19:38:03 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:101 - ID:864889

    SOFIA, Aug 8 (MENA) - An accident at a military plant in southwest Bulgaria caused an explosion on Friday, injuring 10 people, authorities said. The defence ministry said the explosion was caused by workers mishandling ammunitions at the plant in ....

  • US bans commercial airlines from flying over Iraq

    Date: 2014-08-08 19:37:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:100 - ID:864857

    WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (MENA) - Washington announced a ban Friday on its airlines and other commercial carriers from flying over Iraq, The Daily Mail reported. The Federal Aviation Authorities announced the ban in a statement Friday, citing the ....

  • US. aircraft conduct targeted airstrike in northern Iraq: Pentagon

    Date: 2014-08-08 16:57:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:87 - ID:864777

    WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (MENA) – The US military conducted a targeted airstrike today against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in northern Iraq, the Pentagon press secretary said. At about 6:45 a.m. EDT, two F/A-18 aircraft dropped ....

  • S. Korea issues travel warning for Ebola-hit Nigeria

    Date: 2014-08-08 15:03:54 GMT - south korea - World - SN:78 - ID:864678

    SEOUL, Aug 8 (MENA) -- South Korea on Friday issued a special travel advisory for Nigeria's Ebola-hit capital Lagos as part of efforts to control the spread of the virus, Yonhap quoted the South Korean health ministry as saying. During an ....

  • Afghans sign unity government deal with US backing

    Date: 2014-08-08 12:42:35 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:63 - ID:864368

    KABUL, Aug 8 (MENA) – Afghan presidential rivals Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah signed Friday an agreement to form a unity government, the BBC reported. "We will form a government of national unity... What unites us is far greater than what ....

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