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1 dead, 7 injured in possible terrorist car explosion outside Trump Las Vegas hotel
Date: 2025-01-01 22:38:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:44 - ID:11012763
LAS VEGAS, US, Jan 1 (MENA) – One person was killed and seven others were injured after a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside a US President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel, local media reported, citing the police. Authorities are treating ....
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Biden says FBI investigating New Orleans incident as act of terrorism; Trump says hearts with victims
Date: 2025-01-01 18:43:12 GMT - USA - World - SN:28 - ID:11012620
WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the horrific incident in New Orleans as an act of terrorism, as president-elect Donald Trump said "Our hearts are with all ....
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Pakistani president, PM stress for collective efforts to build stronger Pakistan in 2025
Date: 2025-01-01 07:18:35 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:5 - ID:11011762
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1 (MENA) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have extended greetings to the people of Pakistan and the international community on the occasion of the New Year, Radio Pakistan reported. In their ....
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Puerto Rico power outage leaves most of island in the dark on New Year’s Eve
Date: 2024-12-31 16:49:15 GMT - Puerto Rico - World - SN:29 - ID:11011444
SAN JUAN, Dec 31 (MENA) - More than 1.3 million people living in Puerto Rico sat in darkness on Tuesday morning after a sweeping blackout washed over the island, The Independent reported. As the country awoke to celebrate New Year’s Eve, a ....
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122 journalists, media workers killed in 2024, says the IFJ
Date: 2024-12-31 12:25:36 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:17 - ID:11011079
BRUSSELS, Dec 31 (MENA) - One hundred and twenty-two journalists and media workers, including 14 women, have been killed in 2024, according to the annual Killed List released by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on 31 December. ....
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Yoon’s lawyer calls arrest warrant 'illegal, invalid'
Date: 2024-12-31 07:41:55 GMT - south korea - World - SN:9 - ID:11010690
SEOUL, Dec 31 (MENA) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal defense team said the warrant for the president’s arrest is illegal and invalid, KBS World Radio reported Tuesday. Lawyer Yun Gap-geun delivered a statement to that effect ....
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Court issues warrant to detain impeached President Yoon in martial law probe
Date: 2024-12-31 07:31:38 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:11010669
SEOUL, Dec 31 (MENA) - A Seoul court on Tuesday issued a warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched martial law imposition, making him the first sitting South Korean president to face arrest, Yonhap reported. The Seoul ....
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Russian war casualties in Ukraine up by 1,610 over past day
Date: 2024-12-31 07:22:32 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:7 - ID:11010658
KIEV, Dec 31 (MENA) - The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to Tuesday, December 31, 2024, amount to approximately 789,550 personnel, with 1,610 of these losses occurring over the past day. The General ....
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Cuba frees Salvadoran jailed over 1997 hotel bombings
Date: 2024-12-31 07:19:43 GMT - Cuba - World - SN:6 - ID:11010656
HAVANA, Dec 31 (MENA) - Cuba released on Monday a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, after he served 30 years in prison over a wave of 1997 hotel bombings, Barron's magazine quoted local media as saying. "Today, after serving his sentence, ....
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State funeral, national day of mourning set for Jimmy Carter
Date: 2024-12-30 15:58:05 GMT - USA - World - SN:22 - ID:11010189
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - Tributes continue to pour in after Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Sunday. He was surrounded by his family at his home in Plains, Georgia, in his final moments, CNN said. Carter’s ....