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  • Neo-nazi forces unleash terror against civilians in Ukraine - Putin

    Date: 2014-05-19 06:42:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:15 - ID:729486

    MOSCOW, May 19 (MENA) - Neo-Nazi forces in Ukraine are waging a war against civilians, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview with China's leading media. He pointed out that a revision of the results of the Second World War is ....

  • S. Korean, US, Japanese defense chiefs to meet in Singapore next week

    Date: 2014-05-19 06:40:21 GMT - south korea - World - SN:14 - ID:729463

    SEOUL, May 19 (MENA) - The defense ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan plan to meet in Singapore next week for possible discussions on cooperation in dealing with North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, Yonhap reported ....

  • 31 children die in Colombia bus fire

    Date: 2014-05-19 06:06:10 GMT - Colombia - World - SN:10 - ID:729405

    BOGOTA, May 19 (MENA) - Thirty-one children and one adult were killed in Colombia when fuel exploded on a broken-down bus returning from a church event, The Guardian reported on its website. The charred bodies of victims were being identified ....

  • Park says she’ll disband coast guard in ferry-sinking apology

    Date: 2014-05-19 06:04:29 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:729420

    SEOUL, May 19 (MENA) - South Korean President Park Geun Hye apologized to the nation over the deadly sinking of a passenger ferry that left 300 people dead or missing and said she’ll disband the coast guard for its botched rescue operation, Sky news ....

  • CIA denies its agents were killed in eastern Ukraine

    Date: 2014-05-18 19:56:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:153 - ID:729175

    WASHINGTON, May 18 (MENA) - The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has denied reports of a number of CIA agents allegedly killed in clashes between forces loyal to the Kiev authorities and self-defense units in eastern Ukraine, The Voice of Russia ....

  • OIC's Madani meets King of Spain

    Date: 2014-05-18 15:36:02 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:111 - ID:728532

    CAIRO, May 18 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad bin Amin Madani met on Sunday with King of Spain Juan Carlos who is currently on an official visit to Saudi Arabia. According to a statement ....

  • Death toll from S Korea sunken ferry rises to 286

    Date: 2014-05-18 15:19:05 GMT - south korea - World - SN:108 - ID:728581

    SEOUL, May 18 (MENA) - Rescue divers retrieved one more body early Sunday morning from a ferry that sank off South Korea's southwest coast last month, bringing the confirmed death toll to 286, officials said as reported Yonhap news agency ....

  • Afghan Senate orders probe into recruitment of Afghans by Iran to fight in Syria

    Date: 2014-05-18 14:53:02 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:105 - ID:728635

    KABUL, May 18 (MENA) - The Afghan lawmakers in the upper house of the parliament ordered a probe into the alleged recruitment of Afghan refugees by Iran to fight in Syria, Khaama Press reported. Afghan Senate Speaker Fazal Hadi Muslimyar asked the ....

  • Egypt's amb. stresses importance of FM's Slovakia's visit

    Date: 2014-05-18 11:08:18 GMT - Austria - World - SN:60 - ID:728025

    VIENNA, May 18 (MENA) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy's visit of Slovakia was the first to be made by a top Egyptian diplomat to the country since its independence and the first to Central Europe since the wave of revolutions had hit the ....

  • Iranian FM raises hopes for deal with world powers

    Date: 2014-05-18 10:11:48 GMT - Iran - World - SN:56 - ID:727984

    TEHRAN, May 18 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who leads the country's team in the nuclear talks with the world powers, announced that striking a final deal between the two sides is possible, Fars news agency reported. "A ....

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