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  • Storms kill 5 in Germany

    Date: 2014-06-10 09:21:25 GMT - Germany - World - SN:21 - ID:770419

    BERLIN, June 10 (MENA) - At least five people were killed amid heavy weather in Germany's North Rhine Westphalia, police said late on Monday as quoted by euronews. Three people were killed on Monday in Duesseldorf, a fire brigade spokesman told ....

  • Saudi, Russian FMs discuss Syrian crisis in phone call

    Date: 2014-06-10 08:16:07 GMT - Russia - World - SN:19 - ID:770251

    MOSCOW, June 10 (MENA) – Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov held talks over the telephone on ways to end the Syrian crisis and other crises in the region, Novosti news agency reported. “The ....

  • Raging storm in western Germany kills one, disrupts transport

    Date: 2014-06-10 08:04:15 GMT - Germany - World - SN:18 - ID:770185

    BERLIN, June 10 (MENA) – One person was killed in violent storms that swept Germany’s most populous state late on Monday, felling trees, disrupting public transport and leaving some roads impassable, Euro news reported. A cyclist aged around 50 ....

  • Death toll reaches 34 after Pakistan airport attack

    Date: 2014-06-10 08:02:57 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:17 - ID:770186

    ISLAMABAD, June 10 (MENA) - Pakistan rescue workers recovered the bodies of seven people trapped inside a cargo building at Karachi airport on Tuesday; two days after a group of Taliban militants stormed the country’s busiest airport, Euro News ....

  • Five NATO troops die in Afghanistan

    Date: 2014-06-10 07:59:06 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:16 - ID:770187

    KABUL, June 10 (MENA) - Five Nato soldiers have been killed in an incident in southern Afghanistan, BBC quoted the Nato-led force in the country as saying. The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says the incident took place on Monday ....

  • S. Korea president nominates new prime minister, spy chief

    Date: 2014-06-10 07:00:55 GMT - south korea - World - SN:12 - ID:770127

    SEOUL, June 10 (MENA) – South Korea President Park Geun-hye nominated a former journalist as her new prime minister and selected the ambassador to Japan as her new intelligence chief Tuesday in the first step of a Cabinet reshuffle meant to regain ....

  • Fight at Mexican prison leaves 8 inmates injured

    Date: 2014-06-10 06:38:21 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:10 - ID:770099

    MEXICO CITY, June 10 (MENA) - A fight Monday among inmates at a prison in the border city of Matamoros left at least eight prisoners injured some of them gravely, authorities said. Tamaulipas state authorities said the injured had burns from a ....

  • Karachi airport reopens after Pakistan Taliban assault

    Date: 2014-06-09 21:23:48 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:154 - ID:769919

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan's largest airport has resumed operations after an assault by militants which left at least 30 people, including the attackers, dead, the BBC reported. The assault on Jinnah international airport in Karachi began late on ....

  • Boko Haram kidnaps more women near Chibok, reports say

    Date: 2014-06-09 20:49:27 GMT - Nigeria - World - SN:150 - ID:769920

    ABUJA, June 9 (MENA) - Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in north-east Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted nearly 300 girls in April, most of whom are still ....

  • UN chief condemns latest terrorist attacks in Pakistan

    Date: 2014-06-09 20:24:48 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:147 - ID:769897

    NEW YORK, June 9 (MENA) – Strongly condemning Sunday’s attacks in Pakistan – which reportedly left more than 50 people dead in the wake of separate assaults on the country’s main airport in Karachi, and on busloads of Shia pilgrims in Baluchistan – ....

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