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  • Germany to dispatch 6 fighter jets for patrolling airspace over Baltic countries

    Date: 2014-04-16 18:31:40 GMT - Germany - World - SN:143 - ID:672229

    BERLIN, April 16, (MENA) - Germany will send up to 6 Eurofighter jets to patrol airspace over Baltic countries, as part of a campaign to set up security of NATO's easternmost member-states in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine, a spokesman for the ....

  • Malaysia PM visits Turkey

    Date: 2014-04-16 18:28:40 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:141 - ID:672191

    ANKARA, April 16 (MENA) – Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's three-day official visit to Turkey from Wednesday will further boost bilateral relations between Malaysia and Turkey, said Malaysia's Ambassador to Turkey Amran Mohamed ....

  • Russian stance on Ukraine reasonable - Kremlin spokesman

    Date: 2014-04-16 17:43:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:136 - ID:672187

    MOSCOW, April 16 (MENA) - Russia's stance on Ukraine is very consistent and well-founded, but it comes across a rude stone wall of Western censorship, Russian presidential press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. He said that that people ....

  • Iran's missile capabilities no subject for nuclear talks - Minister

    Date: 2014-04-16 15:22:21 GMT - Iran - World - SN:107 - ID:671972

    TEHRAN, April 16 (MENA) - Iranian Defense Minister General Hossein Dehqan underlined that the country's defense capabilities, including its ballistic missiles, will never be included in the nuclear negotiations with the world powers, FARS News ....

  • EU condemns kidnapping of Jordan envoy in Libya

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:48:17 GMT - Libya - World - SN:88 - ID:671677

    TRIPOLI, April 16 (MENA) - The European Union (EU) strongly condemned Wednesday the recent kidnapping of Jordanian Ambassador to Libya Fawaz Al-Itan in Tripoli and injuries to his driver. In press statements Wednesday, EU High Representative ....

  • US visa denial to Iran’s UN proposed envoy against int’l laws - MP

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:37:35 GMT - Iran - World - SN:82 - ID:671676

    TEHRAN, April 16 (MENA) - A member of Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said here on Wednesday that the US visa denial to Iran’s proposed ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Aboutalebi is a clear violation of ....

  • New York drops unit that spied on Muslims: paper

    Date: 2014-04-16 12:26:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:62 - ID:671170

    NEW YORK, April 16 (MENA) - The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and build detailed files on where people ate, prayed and ....

  • Five dead after stabbing at student party in Canada

    Date: 2014-04-16 11:03:17 GMT - Canada - World - SN:44 - ID:671160

    OTTAWA, April 16 (MENA) - Five people were killed and a suspect taken into custody after multiple stabbings at a house party attended by university students near the University of Calgary, the BBC reported quoting the police chief, calling it the ....

  • Two people dead, 290 missing in sunken ferry

    Date: 2014-04-16 10:22:30 GMT - south korea - World - SN:34 - ID:671080

    SEOUL, April 16 (MENA) - A passenger ship carrying more than 470 people, mostly high school students, sank off South Korea's southern coast on Wednesday, leaving at least two people, including one student, dead and about 290 others missing, Yonhap ....

  • 50 passengers injured as train derails in India

    Date: 2014-04-16 09:04:38 GMT - India - World - SN:20 - ID:670797

    NEW DELHI, April 16 (MENA) – Fifty passengers were injured when the engine and 10 coaches of a train derailed at Teghiria in central Assam, Northeastern Indian, Russia today reported. The derailment damaged 100 mts of railway line leading to ....

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