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  • Obama to highlight Putin threat to EU during keynote speech in Brussels

    Date: 2014-03-26 15:22:42 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:122 - ID:632405

    LONDON, March 26 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama is to charge Russian President Vladimir Putin with being a menace to an international system built up over decades following the Russian leader's sudden appropriation of part of Ukraine, The ....

  • U.N. head Ban Ki-Moon visits Prague next week

    Date: 2014-03-26 14:52:18 GMT - Czech - World - SN:119 - ID:632393

    PRAGUE, March 26 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet Czech President Milos Zeman in Prague on April 4, Zeman´s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told CTK today. "I can confirm that Mr. President will meet U. N. Secretary General ....

  • Russian minister says Moscow keen on boosting cooperation with Cairo

    Date: 2014-03-26 14:43:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:111 - ID:632287

    MOSCOW, March 26 (MENA) - Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolay Vasilyevich Fedorov said Wednesday a cooperation protocol signed with Egypt is an important step toward boosting bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Fedorov was speaking ....

  • Obama rules out using force against Russia

    Date: 2014-03-26 14:03:47 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:100 - ID:632023

    BRUSSELS, March 26 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama said that the U.S. would stand by its European allies in the face of Russian aggression, but ruled out using force to dislodge Moscow’s troops from the Crimean peninsula, The Province newspaper ....

  • President Obama prepares to meet the People’s Pope

    Date: 2014-03-26 12:54:55 GMT - Italy - World - SN:79 - ID:631285

    ROME, March 26 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama will travel to Vatican City to meet Pope Francis for the first time on Thursday, hoping that perhaps some of the pontiff's seemingly universal popularity will rub off on him before he leaves, Time ....

  • President Obama arrives in Brussels ahead of EU meeting

    Date: 2014-03-26 09:36:29 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:34 - ID:631234

    BRUSSELS, March 26 (MENA) - US President Barak Obama has arrived in Brussels where he will meet leaders of the European Union and Nato to discuss the crisis in Ukraine and other transatlantic issues, the BBC reported. He is also expected to make ....

  • Commuter plane lands safely after fire in Malaysia

    Date: 2014-03-26 08:05:06 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:23 - ID:631164

    KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (MENA) - A plane from a new Malaysian airline was forced to turn back Wednesday on a domestic flight because one of its engines caught fire, ABC news reported quoting the airline as having said. Malindo Air said in a ....

  • Death toll of US mudslide rises to 24

    Date: 2014-03-26 07:34:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:631115

    WASHINGTON, March 26 (MENA) - Emergency workers have recovered two more bodies after a US landslide and located another eight corpses in the debris, the BBC reported. "Unfortunately, we didn't find any signs of life," Snohomish County fire ....

  • Salvadorean court rejects opposition challenge to poll

    Date: 2014-03-26 07:24:52 GMT - El Salvador - World - SN:15 - ID:631051

    SAN SALVADOR, March 26 (MENA) - El Salvador's electoral court has rejected an appeal by the right-wing Arena party against the results of the presidential election held on 9 March, the BBC reported. The court dismissed Arena's demand for an ....

  • 3 Secret Service agents sent home from Amsterdam for disciplinary reasons

    Date: 2014-03-26 07:16:51 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:13 - ID:631074

    THE HAGUE, March 26 (MENA) - The Secret Service sent three agents home from the Netherlands just before President Barack Obama’s arrival after one agent was found inebriated in an Amsterdam hotel, the Secret Service said as quoted by the BBC. ....

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