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  • Japan, Mexico to cooperate in concluding Pacific trade talks early

    Date: 2014-07-26 11:29:10 GMT - Japan - World - SN:22 - ID:845960

    MEXICO CITY, July 26 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto confirmed their cooperation in seeking the early conclusion of ongoing free-trade negotiations involving the two countries and 10 other ....

  • Britain provides additional aid to Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-26 11:26:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:19 - ID:845898

    LONDON, July 26 (MENA) - The British government announced Saturday that it will provide an additional aid worth 2 million pound sterling in emergency support including health care, clean water, blankets and cooking equipment to help tens of ....

  • Criminal case opened in Russia over gunfire attacks from Ukraine

    Date: 2014-07-26 09:43:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:16 - ID:845782

    MOSCOW, July 26 (MENA) - The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case in connection with shelling of Russia's territory from Ukraine, a committee official said, according to ITAR-TASS News Agency. The SK (Investigative ....

  • US House passes resolution requiring Congress to approve troops in Iraq

    Date: 2014-07-26 08:36:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:11 - ID:845706

    WASHINGTON, July 26 (MENA) - The US House of Representatives passed a resolution requiring authorization from Congress for a sustained presence of combat troops in Iraq, CBS News reported. The legislation was approved by a 370-40 vote after ....

  • Washington fully shares responsibility for bloodshed in Ukraine — Russian Foreign Ministry

    Date: 2014-07-25 19:00:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:81 - ID:845206

    MOSCOW, July 25 (MENA) - Washington fully shares responsibility for bloodshed in Ukraine, said the Russian Foreign Ministry. “It is indisputable that it was the United States that backed an anti-constitutional coup in Kiev and then in essence ....

  • Moscow disdained with detention of Russian journalists in Estonia — Foreign Ministry

    Date: 2014-07-25 18:45:25 GMT - Russia - World - SN:78 - ID:845246

    MOSCOW, July 25 (MENA) - Moscow is disdained by the arrest in Tallinn, Estonia, of a crew of the Zvezda TV channel, Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's envoy for human rights, democracy and supremacy of law told ITAR-TASS. "A report ....

  • British man confirmed dead in Air Algeria plane crash in Mali

    Date: 2014-07-25 18:18:27 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:75 - ID:845244

    LONDON, July 25 (MENA) - A British man has been confirmed dead in the Air Algeria plane crash in Mali that killed 116 people, Daily Mail reported on Friday. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed that the man was on board flight AH 5107 ....

  • More MH17 victims arrive in the Netherlands as investigation progresses

    Date: 2014-07-25 17:58:22 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:71 - ID:845226

    AMSTERDAM, July 25 (MENA) - Two transport planes carrying bodies recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have arrived at Eindhoven airport in the Netherlands, Euronews reported on Friday. A total of 114 coffins have now ....

  • Ukrainian army uses banned phosphorous bombs — Russian Defense Ministry

    Date: 2014-07-25 16:01:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:62 - ID:845139

    MOSCOW, July 25 (MENA) - Ukrainian army has used phosphorous bombs banned under the international law against civilian targets in the conflict zone, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official said on Friday. "The phosphorous bombs were used ....

  • Kyrgyzstan's ex-president sentenced in absentia to life for violently dispersing rally

    Date: 2014-07-25 14:40:19 GMT - Kyrgyzstan - World - SN:55 - ID:844960

    BISHKEK, July 25 (MENA) - A former president of Kyrgyzstan has been convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in violently breaking up an opposition rally, resulting in 77 deaths, Fox News reported on Friday. The Supreme ....

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