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  • Ukrainian forces open artillery fire on Slavyansk

    Date: 2014-06-14 18:36:24 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:96 - ID:777975

    KIEV, June 14 (MENA) - Ukrainian armed forces opened artillery fire on central Slavyansk, the Donetsk region, a local militia source told Itar-Tass on Saturday. An area near a hospital was under fire. Shells hit several buildings near the ....

  • Ukrainian president declares a day of mourning

    Date: 2014-06-14 17:45:33 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:92 - ID:777916

    KIEV, June 14 (MENA) - President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expresses deep condolences to the families of the killed Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian border guards on June 14, 2014, during the counterterrorist operations, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry ....

  • Thousands of Frenchmen support granting Snowden asylum in France

    Date: 2014-06-14 17:42:11 GMT - France - World - SN:91 - ID:777959

    PARIS, June 14 (MENA) - Over 150,000 French people have signed a petition to President Francois Hollande on granting whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum in France, Voice of Russia reported on Saturday. The petition saying that "France, country of ....

  • Russia says Yatsenyuk wants to disrupt trilateral gas talks

    Date: 2014-06-14 17:25:03 GMT - Russia - World - SN:87 - ID:777864

    MOSCOW, June 14 (MENA) - Ukraine’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk wants to disrupt gas talks with Russia, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian State Duma Committee for International Affairs, was quoted by Itar-Tass as ....

  • Egyptian expatriates in Austria continue celebrations with Sisi's inauguration

    Date: 2014-06-14 14:48:41 GMT - Austria - World - SN:58 - ID:777680

    VIENNA, June 14 (MENA) - The administration of the Egyptian union in Austria decided in its meeting on Saturday to organize a cruise for the Egyptian expatriates here from Austria to Hungary as part of the expatriates' celebrations with inauguration ....

  • Ukrainean president declares day of mourning over helicopter attack victims

    Date: 2014-06-14 14:47:05 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:56 - ID:777675

    KIEV, June 14 (MENA) - "All those who are involved in the cynical terrorist attack of this scale must be punished," Ukraine's newly elected President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement on Saturday. "Ukraine needs peace. But, terrorists will ....

  • Russia, Ukraine to meet over gas crisis

    Date: 2014-06-14 12:21:47 GMT - Russia - World - SN:42 - ID:777463

    MOSCOW, June 14 (MENA) - A new meeting between Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine would be held in Kiev this Saturday, said Gazprom's spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported. 'Now a new meeting is being prepared in Kiev to be ....

  • US airstrikes could help in reversing insurgent offensive - NYT

    Date: 2014-06-14 09:10:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:18 - ID:776904

    NEW YORK, June 14 (MENA) - American air power could play an important role in reversing the Sunni insurgent offensive in Iraq, current and former American military officials said, but it would be most effective with improved intelligence about ....

  • Hillary Clinton: No airstrikes in Iraq 'at this time'

    Date: 2014-06-13 20:58:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:123 - ID:776612

    WASHINGTON, June 13 (MENA) - Hillary Clinton said the United States should not provide military assistance – particularly airstrikes – to the Iraqi government "at this time" in response to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other ....

  • Pakistan seeks power sharing with Taliban in Afghanistan’s next government

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:02:03 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:106 - ID:776561

    ISLAMABAD, June 13 (MENA) - The Afghan intelligence – national directorate of security (NDS) chief, Rahmatullah Nabil has said that the Pakistan intelligence agencies are looking o to share power with Taliban in the next government of Afghanistan, ....

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