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  • 5.4 quake jolts part of Indonesia's Papua, no immediate reports of casualties

    Date: 2023-07-03 05:58:19 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:5 - ID:10236851

    JAKARTA, July 3 (MENA) - An earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost province Monday, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties, ABC News reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.4 quake was centered 135 ....

  • Macron holds meeting to assess security situation amid Paris riots

    Date: 2023-07-02 21:41:51 GMT - France - World - SN:46 - ID:10236694

    PARIS, July 2 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron had a meeting on Sunday evening with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and some cabinet members to assess the security situation in France amid nationwide unrest sparked by shooting a 17-year old ....

  • Baltimore mayor describes mass shooting as 'reckless, cowardly' act

    Date: 2023-07-02 19:14:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:41 - ID:10236668

    WASHINGTON, July 2 (MENA) - US Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott described a shooting incident that left two people dead and 28 others injured as a “reckless, cowardly act that happened here and that has permanently altered many lives and cost two ....

  • No breach to Austria’s neutrality by joining Sky Shield - Austria's FM

    Date: 2023-07-02 19:02:54 GMT - Austria - World - SN:40 - ID:10236611

    VIENNA, July 2 (MENA) - Austria's Foreign Minister Archyde Schallenberg said Austria’s planned accession to the European airspace defense system “Sky Shield” is not a breach of Austrian neutrality. “Sky Shield” is not a NATO initiative and not a ....

  • French Interior Ministry says it deployed 45,000 police, gendarmes

    Date: 2023-07-02 18:41:13 GMT - France - World - SN:39 - ID:10236625

    PARIS, July 2 (MENA) - French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Sunday said he had ordered that the number of police and gendarmes that are engaged in quelling the riots be maintained at 45,000. Darmanin chaired a security meeting Sunday, ....

  • Paris police chief says imposing curfew unnecessary at present time

    Date: 2023-07-02 18:04:55 GMT - France - World - SN:38 - ID:10236559

    PARIS, July 2 (MENA) - Paris police commissioner Laurent Nunez has ruled out the need to declare a state of emergency in the French capital amid nationwide unrest sparked by shooting a 17-year old of north African descent by police last ....

  • King Charles to meet Biden in London

    Date: 2023-07-02 18:03:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:37 - ID:10236581

    LONDON, July 2 (MENA) - US President Joe Biden is to travel to the UK to meet King Charles later this month. It is the first time the US president will have met the King since the Coronation in May. Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles was ....

  • Russia to produce armour plating reducing visibility of tanks

    Date: 2023-07-02 17:39:02 GMT - Russia - World - SN:36 - ID:10236558

    MOSCOW, July 2 (MENA) - Scientists of the Russian Research Institute of Steel have created special stealth covers that hide tanks from hostile space reconnaissance and monitoring. The special stealth covers were called Nakidka, identified as ....

  • Russian forces destroy up to 360 Ukrainian servicemen in Donetsk direction

    Date: 2023-07-02 17:10:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:34 - ID:10236609

    MOSCOW, July 2 (MENA) – Russian forces destroyed up to 360 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction over the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday. "Up to 360 ....

  • Nahel's grandmother calls for end to violence on France’s streets

    Date: 2023-07-02 16:22:36 GMT - France - World - SN:30 - ID:10236575

    PARIS, July 2 (MENA) – The grandmother of Nahel, a 17-year-old boy who was killed by a police officer in Nanterre on Tuesday, appealed for calm on Sunday after a fifth consecutive night of urban rioting caused by the death of her grandson, Euronews ....

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