By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Friday said North Korea recently provided Russia with a shipment of weapons, calling it a troubling development and raising concerns about the expanded military relationship between the two countries. The White House showed a series of satellite images that it said indicate cargo from an ammunition …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -A suicide bombing ripped through a Shi’ite mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least seven worshippers, a government official said. “A blast has taken place at a Shi’ite mosque,” Baghlan province official Mawlawi Hashimi said. Seven people were killed during prayer and 15 injured in the attack …
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(Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shi’ite mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, according to the Sunni militant group’s Telegram channel. A suicide bombing ripped through a Shi’ite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven worshippers, a government official said. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab and Enas Alashray; editing by …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Traumatised and relieved Nepali nationals who survived the attack by Palestinian group Hamas were received by their loved ones on Friday as they returned home aboard the first special flight from Israel. A plane carrying 254 Nepalis from Israel landed in the capital city Kathmandu before dawn on Friday, …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s disaster management ministry on Friday revised downward the death toll from multiple earthquakes to around 1,000 from an earlier figure of over 2,400, a spokesman said. Multiple earthquakes struck in the western province of Herat on Saturday and Wednesday, destroying entire villages in the war-battered country, many …
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday 20 people had been arrested suspected of taking bribes to help people apply for early withdrawal of government pension funds with false documents, amid a row over new passports offered by Britain. Hong Kong pension funds have been in the spotlight …
By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) -A staffer at the Israeli embassy in Beijing was assaulted on Friday and was hospitalised in stable condition, Israel’s foreign ministry said, and Chinese police said a suspect had been arrested. The attack did not occur within the embassy compound itself, the Israeli foreign ministry said, which is just …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Friday said he believed a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan was achievable if both sides showed goodwill, playing down the difficulty of reaching agreement on their shared border. “With goodwill on both sides it can all be done,” he said. Putin, speaking at a summit in Bishkek, …
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By Juarawee Kittisilpa and Artorn Pookasook NONG BUA LAMPHU, Thailand (Reuters) – Thai farm worker Kittipong Chaiyako watched six of his friends shot dead when Hamas militants attacked the Israeli kibbutz where he was working and said it was the “scariest day” of his life. The 34-year-old had been working for a year at an …
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By John Geddie and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Palestine’s mission to Japan called on Tokyo to maintain humanitarian aid to Palestinians on Friday and play a neutral role in the conflict between the Hamas militant group and Israel. The plea came as Israel amassed tanks near the Palestinian enclave of Gaza ahead of an expected …
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