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  • AMAN General Assembly kicks off in Spain, MENA takes part

    Date: 2014-06-10 12:33:49 GMT - Spain - World - SN:63 - ID:770731

    ALICANTEl/ SPAIN, June 10 (MENA) - The General Assembly meetings of the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies (AMAN) kicked off in Alicante city of Spain on Tuesday with participation of 20 Arab and European news agencies, including the Middle ....

  • Iran, Germany to hold bilateral N-talks in Tehran

    Date: 2014-06-10 11:39:09 GMT - Iran - World - SN:50 - ID:770620

    TEHRAN, June 10 (MENA) - A senior Iranian nuclear negotiator says representatives from the Islamic Republic and Germany will hold bilateral nuclear talks in Tehran, Press TV channel reported. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and ....

  • Egyptian ambassador attends OAS meeting

    Date: 2014-06-10 09:33:15 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:25 - ID:770252

    CAIRO, June 10 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador to Uruguay and non-resident to Paraguay Sami Salem attended, at the behest of Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, the 44th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) that was held in ....

  • Storms kill 5 in Germany

    Date: 2014-06-10 09:21:25 GMT - Germany - World - SN:21 - ID:770419

    BERLIN, June 10 (MENA) - At least five people were killed amid heavy weather in Germany's North Rhine Westphalia, police said late on Monday as quoted by euronews. Three people were killed on Monday in Duesseldorf, a fire brigade spokesman told ....

  • Saudi, Russian FMs discuss Syrian crisis in phone call

    Date: 2014-06-10 08:16:07 GMT - Russia - World - SN:19 - ID:770251

    MOSCOW, June 10 (MENA) – Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov held talks over the telephone on ways to end the Syrian crisis and other crises in the region, Novosti news agency reported. “The ....

  • Raging storm in western Germany kills one, disrupts transport

    Date: 2014-06-10 08:04:15 GMT - Germany - World - SN:18 - ID:770185

    BERLIN, June 10 (MENA) – One person was killed in violent storms that swept Germany’s most populous state late on Monday, felling trees, disrupting public transport and leaving some roads impassable, Euro news reported. A cyclist aged around 50 ....

  • Death toll reaches 34 after Pakistan airport attack

    Date: 2014-06-10 08:02:57 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:17 - ID:770186

    ISLAMABAD, June 10 (MENA) - Pakistan rescue workers recovered the bodies of seven people trapped inside a cargo building at Karachi airport on Tuesday; two days after a group of Taliban militants stormed the country’s busiest airport, Euro News ....

  • Five NATO troops die in Afghanistan

    Date: 2014-06-10 07:59:06 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:770187

    KABUL, June 10 (MENA) - Five Nato soldiers have been killed in an incident in southern Afghanistan, BBC quoted the Nato-led force in the country as saying. The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says the incident took place on Monday ....

  • S. Korea president nominates new prime minister, spy chief

    Date: 2014-06-10 07:00:55 GMT - south korea - World - SN:12 - ID:770127

    SEOUL, June 10 (MENA) – South Korea President Park Geun-hye nominated a former journalist as her new prime minister and selected the ambassador to Japan as her new intelligence chief Tuesday in the first step of a Cabinet reshuffle meant to regain ....

  • Fight at Mexican prison leaves 8 inmates injured

    Date: 2014-06-10 06:38:21 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:10 - ID:770099

    MEXICO CITY, June 10 (MENA) - A fight Monday among inmates at a prison in the border city of Matamoros left at least eight prisoners injured some of them gravely, authorities said. Tamaulipas state authorities said the injured had burns from a ....

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