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  • Unknown attacker opens fire in Paris business district, no one injured

    Date: 2013-11-18 14:20:16 GMT - France - World - SN:103 - ID:393787

    PARIS, Nov 18 (MENA) – An unknown attacker on Monday opened fire outside Societe General Bank in Paris's business district, but no one was reportedly injured. Some eye witnesses said police were searching the area for the attacker who was ....

  • NTSB chief to visit Seoul over Asiana crash in U.S.

    Date: 2013-11-18 11:45:33 GMT - south korea - World - SN:70 - ID:393396

    SEOUL, Nov 18 (MENA) - The head of the U.S. federal agency charged with investigating civil aviation accidents plans to visit Seoul this week for talks with South Korean officials over a fatal plane crash in July, Yonhap news agency reported quoting ....

  • Typhoon Haiyan victims rise to 4,000 dead

    Date: 2013-11-18 10:38:31 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:54 - ID:392866

    MANILA, Nov 18 (MENA) - The number of victims resulting from Typhoon Haiyan rose to 4,000 with 18,000 people injured and almost half a million left homeless, the BBC reported. The international aid effort in parts of the Philippines devastated by ....

  • OIC sends delegation to Philippine in solidarity gesture

    Date: 2013-11-18 09:43:20 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:43 - ID:392999

    CAIRO, Nov 18 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation will send a delegation to visit the Philippines with the aim of conveying a message of solidarity from the Islamic world to the Filipino people who were afflicted by a huge devastation ....

  • 6 people killed as Tornadoes rip through Midwest US

    Date: 2013-11-18 08:43:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:38 - ID:392975

    WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (MENA) - Tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest of American on Sunday have killed six people and destroyed at least 70 homes in Illinois State alone, CNN reported. Throughout the region, at least 67 tornadoes had been ....

  • Bachelet goes to second round of Chile presidential elections

    Date: 2013-11-18 08:23:09 GMT - Chile - World - SN:32 - ID:392878

    SANTIAGO, Nov 18 (MENA) - Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has won the first round of voting in Chile's presidential election, the BBC reported. But with most of the votes counted, Bachelet has conceded that she has failed to reach an ....

  • French PM receives freed French hostage Collomp

    Date: 2013-11-18 07:41:31 GMT - France - World - SN:25 - ID:392839

    PARIS, Nov 18 (MENA) - French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault received on Monday the freed French hostage who held by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria for nearly a year. The French hostage was freed after reportedly escaping during a ....

  • Iran FM says enrichment redline

    Date: 2013-11-17 21:09:40 GMT - Iran - World - SN:158 - ID:392670

    TEHRAN, Nov 17 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated that uranium enrichment is inseparable right for his country. "Iran's enrichment right is inseparable right of Iranian nation based on the NPT." Zarif was quoted by ....

  • Lavrov, Kerry discuss Geneva 2

    Date: 2013-11-17 18:36:05 GMT - Russia - World - SN:141 - ID:392505

    MOSCOW, Nov 17 (MENA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry discussed Sunday over the telephone preparations for Geneva 2 conference on the Syrian crisis. Russia Today channel said the two ministers also ....

  • 52 killed in Russian plane crash

    Date: 2013-11-17 18:07:26 GMT - Russia - World - SN:132 - ID:392496

    MOSCOW, Nov 17 (MENA) – As many as 52 people were killed when a Russian airliner crashed on landing at the Russian city of Kazan, Tatarstan. Russia Today said the Boeing 737 plane left Domodedovo airport in Moscow but exploded on its second attempt ....

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