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Ukrainian aircraft launch 13 strikes on Russian positions in southern Ukraine
Date: 2022-10-15 06:45:15 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:2 - ID:9823083
KIEV, Oct 15 (MENA) - Ukraine's Armed Forces aircraft launched 13 strikes on Russian's strongholds, areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and equipment in southern Ukraine on October 14. Ukraine's Operational Command South said this in a ....
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Canada, NATO allies mull strengthening Latvian battle group
Date: 2022-10-14 21:02:04 GMT - Canada - World - SN:73 - ID:9822947
OTTAWA, Oct 14 (MENA) - Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand met with NATO allies to discuss reinforcing a Canadian-led battle group in Latvia with thousands more soldiers, even as uncertainty swirled around what this country can – and will – ....
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US senators push for regulator crackdown on carbon offsets
Date: 2022-10-14 17:54:28 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:65 - ID:9822783
LONDON, Oct 14 (MENA) - US lawmakers are pushing the federal regulator to crack down on the market for carbon offsets and draw up new rules for its oversight, the Financial Times reported Friday. A group of Democratic party senators, including ....
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At least 14 children die after ferry sinks in Cambodia's Mekong river
Date: 2022-10-14 17:25:07 GMT - Cambodia - World - SN:62 - ID:9822775
PHNOM PENH, Oct 14 (MENA) - At least 14 children were killed when an overloaded ferry that was carrying them home from school sank in Cambodia's Mekong river, Channel News Asia quoted authorities as saying on Friday. Rescue teams were searching ....
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UK condemns North Korea ballistic missile launch
Date: 2022-10-14 17:15:59 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:61 - ID:9822701
LONDON, Oct 14 (MENA) - A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said that "North Korea continues to violate UN Security Council Resolutions by conducting a further ballistic missile test on Friday. "Alongside our allies and ....
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Russia announces Kherson evacuation, raising fears city will become frontline
Date: 2022-10-14 17:12:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:60 - ID:9822694
LONDON, Oct 14 (MENA) - Moscow has announced it will evacuate Kherson after an appeal from the Russian-installed head of the region, raising fears the occupied city at the heart of the south Ukrainian oblast will become a new frontline, The Guardian ....
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EU contributes €100 million to IMF’s Poverty Reduction Trust
Date: 2022-10-14 15:53:32 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:53 - ID:9822652
BRUSELSS, Oct 14 (MENA) - The EU signed a €100 million grant agreement for the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT), the two sides announced in a statement Friday. These funds will allow the IMF to make ....
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Partial mobilization in Russia to end within 2 weeks — Putin
Date: 2022-10-14 15:32:25 GMT - Russia - World - SN:50 - ID:9822583
MOSCOW, Oct 14 (MENA) - Partial mobilization is almost over, it will be completed in about two weeks. By now 222,000 men out of an estimated 300,000 have already been called up for military service, TASS cited Russian President Vladimir Putin as ....
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Cypriot President: No Cyprus weapons for Ukraine
Date: 2022-10-14 14:41:03 GMT - Cyprus - World - SN:46 - ID:9822524
NICOSIA, Oct 14 (MENA) - Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has said Cyprus will not send weapons to Ukraine, Cyprus Mail reported. Anastasiades was responding to reporters’ questions when he was asked to comment on the opinion voiced that ....
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UK’s Truss fires finance minister as economic plan in tatters
Date: 2022-10-14 13:15:36 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:39 - ID:9822375
LONDON, Oct 14 (MENA) - British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday dismissed her finance minister, forcing Kwasi Kwarteng to carry the can for turmoil sparked by her right-wing economic platform as restive Conservatives plotted her own demise, the ....