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  • 'We will not give up on missing plane' says Malaysia PM

    Date: 2014-04-03 07:51:33 GMT - Australia - World - SN:17 - ID:646667

    CANBERRA, April 3 (MENA) - Malaysia will not give up on the search for missing flight MH370, its prime minister said as he visited the search hub in Perth, BBC reported. Prime Minister Najib Razak's comments came at a joint news conference with ....

  • Chile leader evacuates as second big quake strikes

    Date: 2014-04-03 07:34:47 GMT - Chile - World - SN:15 - ID:646557

    SANTIAGO, April 3 (MENA) - A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has rocked northern Chile, just over 24 hours after an 8.2 tremor killed six people, destroyed 2,600 houses and led to mass evacuations, BBC reported A tsunami alert in Chile and Peru ....

  • Fort Hood gunman was treated for depression, anxiety

    Date: 2014-04-03 07:02:21 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:646598

    WASHINGTON, April 3 (MENA) - The gunman in the Fort Hood shooting was an active-duty enlisted soldier who served four months in Iraq and was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, a Fort Hood commander said today, according to Sky News. ....

  • Obama 'heartbroken' over Fort Hood shooting

    Date: 2014-04-03 06:36:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:5 - ID:646542

    WASHINGTON, April 3 (MENA) - President Barack Obama spoke on the shooting at Fort Hood, saying that his administration is keeping close tabs on the situation, The Huffington Post reported on Thursday. "We're all following it closely," Obama told ....

  • Pervez Musharraf escaped assassination bid

    Date: 2014-04-03 06:35:07 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:4 - ID:646541

    ISLAMABAD, April 3 (MENA) – The former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf survived an assassination attempt after his convoy escaped a blast on Thursday. Musharraf, 70, was heading to his house at Rawalpindi when a roadside bomb went off ....

  • 4 killed, 16 injured in Fort Hood military base shooting

    Date: 2014-04-03 05:26:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:1 - ID:646531

    WASHINGTON, April 3 (MENA) - A shooting at the Fort Hood military installation in Texas left at least four people dead, including the gunman, and more than a dozen were injured, according to authorities. The gunman, identified by multiple ....

  • 6 police officers killed at Afghan interior ministry

    Date: 2014-04-02 22:37:12 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:208 - ID:646450

    KABUL, April 2 (MENA) - A suicide bomber has killed at least six police officers outside the interior ministry in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the BBC reported. A ministry spokesman said the attacker had tried to get inside the building wearing ....

  • Seven dead as war bomb explodes in Bangkok scrap yard

    Date: 2014-04-02 22:29:14 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:206 - ID:646454

    BANGKOK, April 2 (MENA) - At least seven people were killed and 19 injured when a suspected World War Two bomb exploded in a scrap metal warehouse in the Thai capital, Bangkok, the BBC News reported Wednesday. Construction workers found the bomb ....

  • US calls on Europe to wean itself from Russian gas

    Date: 2014-04-02 20:27:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:197 - ID:646365

    WASHINGTON, April 2 (MENA) - The United States on Wednesday called on Europe to wean itself from a dangerous dependency on Russian gas, saying it was time to stand together and bring an end to the Kremlin's use of energy supplies as political ....

  • UK submarine joins search for missing plane

    Date: 2014-04-02 19:32:34 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:188 - ID:646241

    LONDON, April 2 (MENA) - British submarine HMS Tireless joined the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the BBC news reported Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence said the Trafalgar class submarine arrived in the southern Indian Ocean ....

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