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Liz Truss named as UK’s third woman prime minister
Date: 2022-09-05 16:09:56 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:74 - ID:9756757
LONDON, Sept 5 (MENA) - Britain’s Conservative party Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain’s deepest economic crisis in decades, The Guardian newspaper reported. The foreign ....
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Boris Johnson urges party to unite behind Liz Truss
Date: 2022-09-05 15:07:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:68 - ID:9756502
LONDON, Sept 5 (MENA) - Boris Johnson has urged the Conservative Party to unite behind Liz Truss following her victory over Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest, The Telegraph reported. The outgoing Prime Minister congratulated Ms Truss on ....
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UN mission condemns explosion outside Russian Embassy in Kabul
Date: 2022-09-05 14:51:00 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:64 - ID:9756519
KABUL, Sept 5 (MENA) - The UN mission in Afghanistan on Monday condemned the blast outside the Russian Embassy in Kabul that killed and injured several others. Two Russian embassy workers were reportedly among the people who were killed in the ....
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Russia imposes sanctions on 25 US nationals
Date: 2022-09-05 13:42:49 GMT - Russia - World - SN:52 - ID:9756428
MOSCOW, Sept 5 (MENA) - Russia imposed sanctions on 25 US nationals in a tit-for-tat measure, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday, according to TASS news agency. "As a measure in response to the ever-expanding personal ....
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Hundreds of illegal migrants reach Italy's Lampedusa
Date: 2022-09-05 13:24:37 GMT - Italy - World - SN:47 - ID:9756136
ROME, Sept 5 (MENA) - Italian security sources said Monday that 313 illegal migrants arrived on the shores of the Italian port of Lampedusa on boats during the past hours. The sources told Aki news agency that more than 1,000 migrants are now in ....
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Russia's duty is to help Donbass, says Putin
Date: 2022-09-05 12:43:29 GMT - Russia - World - SN:43 - ID:9756123
MOSCOW, Sept 5 (MENA) - Russia's duty is to help people living in Donbass, all attempts to peacefully resolve the situation ended in failure due to Kiev's position, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday at a meeting with participants of ....
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Kremlin: Blast at Russia embassy in Kabul is 'terrorist act'
Date: 2022-09-05 11:01:16 GMT - Russia - World - SN:32 - ID:9755928
MOSCOW, Sept 5 (MENA) - A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff in what Moscow denounced as an “unacceptable terrorist act.” The blast went off at the entrance ....
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6.8-magnitude quake hits China's Sichuan
Date: 2022-09-05 09:39:11 GMT - China - World - SN:22 - ID:9755688
BEIJING, Sept 5 (MENA) - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, at 12:52 p.m. Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 29.59 ....
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Earthquake kills 8, injures 9 in Afghanistan's Kunar province
Date: 2022-09-05 08:23:45 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:17 - ID:9755531
KABUL, Sept 5 (MENA) - At least eight people were killed and nine others injured as an earthquake struck eastern Kunar province early on Monday, Khaama Press reported quoting provincial head of Natural Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs ....
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Poland welcomes 6.05 million refugees from Ukraine: officials
Date: 2022-09-05 08:16:40 GMT - Poland - World - SN:16 - ID:9755506
WARSAW, Sept 5 (MENA) - Poland has taken in 6.05 million refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Radio Poland reported on Monday, quoting the Polish Border Guard agency. "Since February 24, a total of 6,053,000 people have crossed into ....