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  • Coordinated suicide attack plot foiled in Kandahar city

    Date: 2014-05-01 14:30:38 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:89 - ID:698111

    KABUL, May 1 (MENA) - A group of 10 militants were arrested in connection to a suicide attack plot in southern Kandahar city by Afghan intelligence operatives, Khama newspaper reported. National Directorate of Security (NDS) following a statement ....

  • Way to Jerusalem conf. hold US responsible for Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2014-05-01 14:26:27 GMT - Jordan - World - SN:86 - ID:698188

    AMMAN, May 1 (MENA) - The 1st international conference "The Way to Jerusalem" has held the United States responsible for Israel's continued violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian holy places. The US always uses its veto power ....

  • Two prisoners killed in deadly 'gas blast' at jail in Pensacola, Florida

    Date: 2014-05-01 13:33:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:81 - ID:698112

    WASHINGTON, May 1 (MENA) - Two jail inmates were killed and more than 100 injured in an apparent gas explosion in a Florida jail, the BBC reported, quoting local officials as having said Part of the Escambia County jail in Pensacola collapsed ....

  • Putin calls stopping violence in Ukraine most important thing in conversation with Merkel

    Date: 2014-05-01 12:38:29 GMT - Russia - World - SN:72 - ID:698059

    MOSCOW, May 1 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that today the most important thing for the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis was the withdrawal of military units from ....

  • Merkel asks Putin's help release military observers in southeastern Ukraine

    Date: 2014-05-01 11:43:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:57 - ID:697969

    MOSCOW, May 1 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone conversation to help release the detained military observers detained in southeastern Ukraine, the Kremlin's Press Service said Thursday. "The ....

  • S. Korean military drone crashes into mountain near Seoul

    Date: 2014-05-01 11:27:00 GMT - south korea - World - SN:53 - ID:697967

    SEOUL, May 1 (MENA) - A South Korean military drone crashed into a mountain near Seoul on Thursday, but no one was hurt, Yonhap News Agency quoted an army official as saying on Thursday. The RQ-101 crashed into a mountain in Yangju, just north of ....

  • 100 injured by gas explosion at Florida jail

    Date: 2014-05-01 10:09:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:36 - ID:697768

    WASHINGTON, May 1 (MENA) - At least 100 inmates and corrections officers were injured late Wednesday after a gas explosion at a Florida jail, the BBC reported. The explosion happened around 11 p.m. CDT Wednesday in Escambia County jail's booking ....

  • Ukraine detains Russian military attaché for spying

    Date: 2014-05-01 07:43:30 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:23 - ID:697524

    KIEV, May 1 (MENA) - Ukraine detained Russia's military attaché to Kiev on suspicion of spying and ordered the diplomat to leave the country, BBC reported. Interfax-Ukraine, citing the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said the unnamed diplomat was ....

  • Iran congratulates Iraq for successful holding of parliamentary elections

    Date: 2014-05-01 07:39:48 GMT - Iran - World - SN:21 - ID:697505

    TEHRAN, May 1 (MNEA) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian early Thursday congratulated successful holding of Iraqi parliamentary elections, IRNA News Agency reported. "Today the world is a ....

  • US warns of new generation of global terrorists

    Date: 2014-05-01 06:15:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:697424

    WASHINGTON, May 1 (MENA) - The worldwide terror threat is evolving as Al-Qaeda-linked groups and other militants become increasingly violent and a new generation of global terrorists is spawned in Syria, the Daily Star quoted a US report as warning ....

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