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  • US Secretary of State visits OPCW

    Date: 2014-03-24 15:49:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:110 - ID:628087

    WASHINGTON, March 24 (MENA) - US Secretary of State John Kerry embarked on a visit Monday to The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The US top diplomat held a meeting with the organization's Director-General ....

  • Malaysian PM: Missing plane 'ended' in Indian ocean

    Date: 2014-03-24 14:54:56 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:92 - ID:628009

    KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (MENA) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced Monday evening that new satellite data has concluded missing Malaysian flight MH370 with 239 passengers and crew went down in the Indian Ocean, the VOA reported. He ....

  • UN General Assembly to vote on draft resolution on Ukraine's unity, sovereignty

    Date: 2014-03-24 13:57:20 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:81 - ID:627627

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - A draft resolution on the unity and sovereignty of the Ukrainian territory will be put to vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, said Ukraine's Ambassador to Egypt Yevhen Kyrylenko. The referendum which ....

  • Obama: Russia must suffer cost for action on Crimea

    Date: 2014-03-24 12:21:59 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:65 - ID:627575

    AMSTERDAM, March 24 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama arrived in Europe Monday for a week-long trip during which he will try to shape the crisis in Ukraine by strengthening international support for measures to isolate Russia, The Wall Street ....

  • Japan, Netherlands agree to reject Russia's annexation of Crimea

    Date: 2014-03-24 07:56:45 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:19 - ID:626822

    THE HAGUE, March 24 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte agreed Sunday to reject Russia's annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea region, Kyodo reported quoting a Japanese official. Abe told Rutte that ....

  • Russian aerospace defence troops put under control satellite Glonass-M

    Date: 2014-03-24 07:27:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:16 - ID:626720

    MOSCOW, March 24 (MENA) - Aerospace Defence Troops put under control Russian navigation satellite Glonass-M which was launched from Russian northern spaceport Plesetsk on Monday, Itar-Tass news agency reported quoting press officer of the Russian ....

  • Deadly Ebola virus reaches Guinea capital Conakry - UN

    Date: 2014-03-24 07:25:16 GMT - USA - World - SN:15 - ID:626701

    NEW YORK, March 24 (MENA) - An outbreak of the Ebola virus - which has already killed 59 people in Guinea - has reached the capital Conakry, the UN's children agency has warned. Unicef said the haemorrhagic fever had spread quickly from southern ....

  • Putin, Merkel express satisfaction over coordination of OSCE mission mandate

    Date: 2014-03-24 06:51:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:11 - ID:626699

    MOSCOW, March 24 (MENA) - Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel have voiced satisfaction over the arrangement on a mandate of the monitoring mission, which the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ....

  • Malaysia flight MH370: China spots 'suspicious' objects

    Date: 2014-03-24 06:48:28 GMT - China - World - SN:10 - ID:626680

    BEIJING, March 24 (MENA) - A Chinese plane hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has spotted "suspicious" objects, the BBC reported quoting state media say. Searchers saw two "relatively big" objects with "many white smaller ones ....

  • Syria's war foes hinder aid access: Ban

    Date: 2014-03-24 06:09:38 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:8 - ID:626648

    NEW YORK, March 24 (MENA) - The United Nations accused Syria's government and rebels of hindering aid access, suggesting both sides could be violating U.N. Security Council demands that emergency relief reach civilians caught in the crossfire of the ....

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