
450 jihadists killed in Egypt Sinai offensive: army
Cairo (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - The Egyptian army said Tuesday that 450 jihadists are estimated to have been killed in its eight-month offensive against the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Cairo (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - The Egyptian army said Tuesday that 450 jihadists are estimated to have been killed in its eight-month offensive against the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Reim, Israel (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - Israel's defence minister said Tuesday that months of violent Palestinian protests on the Gaza border cannot be allowed to go on, urging cabinet colleagues to back tougher measures.
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Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - When Shahed was born in 2015 her father tried to notify Iraq's civil registry. The problem was, their city of Mosul was held by Islamic State group jihadists and the office had been shut.
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Tehran (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - An Islamic State mastermind, named as Abu Zahi and linked to a deadly attack last month in southern Iran, was killed along with four other terrorists in Iraq Tuesday, the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a statement.
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - The two Koreas and the US-led United Nations Command began talks Tuesday on demilitarising a section of the heavily fortified border dividing the peninsula, as a diplomatic thaw gathers pace.
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - North Korea's state media on Tuesday slammed the United States for an evil attempt to maintain sanctions against Pyongyang, accusing President Donald Trump of blocking progress in inter-Korean relations.
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Hanoi (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - The United States is alarmed by China's increasingly muscular military presence and predatory economic practices towards smaller countries in Asia, defence chief James Mattis has said on his way to the region.
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Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said President Donald Trump has assured him of his full support, one day after Trump appeared to cast doubt over the Pentagon chief's fate.
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Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - US industries saw only a small hit from Hurricane Florence, which devastated parts of the mid-Atlantic region in September, and output rose at a steady pace, the government reported Tuesday.
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Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 16, 2018 - In June, the US President ordered the country's Department of Defense to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. Speaking
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Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 - The United States conducted its largest air strike in nearly two years against militants in Somalia, killing about 60 Al-Shabaab fighters, the US military said Tuesday.
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 - The two Koreas will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the reconnection of their railways and roads as early as next month, they agreed Monday, as Seoul pursues an approach to the nuclear-armed North increasingly diverging from the US.
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Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that world powers needed to reassure North Korea's Kim Jong Un that he had taken the right decision in committing to scrap his nuclear weapons programme.
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