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Russia's law on NGOs acting as foreign agents may be improved - Putin
Date: 2017-12-26 07:41:18 GMT - Russia - International - SN:4 - ID:7159467
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday the country's law on non-government organizations (NGO) operating as foreign agents can be further improved but its key objective - to prevent outside interference into Russia's domestic affairs - must ....
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US secures $285M cut in UN budget
Date: 2017-12-25 11:09:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:16 - ID:7158137
The US Mission to the United Nations announced that it negotiated a major reduction in the UN’s budget for the upcoming fiscal years, The Hill reported. According to a statement from the mission, the 2018-2019 UN budget will have a $285 million ....
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Russian opposition leader secures backing for 2018 presidential election
Date: 2017-12-25 10:06:33 GMT - Russia - International - SN:10 - ID:7157808
More than 15,000 Russians endorsed the candidacy of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to take on Vladimir Putin in the 2018 election, which allowed him to file for registration as a candidate in the race, The Telegraph reported Sunday. ....
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Five killed in Kabul suicide attack, says Afghan officials
Date: 2017-12-25 09:58:33 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:5 - ID:7157889
Afghan officials said a suicide bomber has killed five people in an attack on the capital Kabul, Khaama Press reported. A spokesman for the interior ministry said the bomber blew himself up Monday near an office of the country’s intelligence ....
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Lithuanian president: It is better to cooperate with Russia than fight against it.
Date: 2017-12-24 18:26:17 GMT - Russia - International - SN:15 - ID:7157437
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Sunday said it is better to cooperate with Russia rather than to fight, expressing the readiness of her government to improve relations, Russian Sputnik news agency reported. "Our neighbor [Russia] in ....
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Chechnya prepares to foil extremists’ intrusion attempts - republic’s leader
Date: 2017-12-24 16:09:54 GMT - Russia - International - SN:14 - ID:7157265
Law enforcement agencies in Chechnya are preparing to foil the intrusion of extremists planning to carry out terror attacks, the North Caucasus republic’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday, Russian Tass news agency reported. "We know now, we ....
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Japanese foreign minister to visit Israel, meet with Netanyahu this week
Date: 2017-12-24 08:23:59 GMT - Israel - International - SN:2 - ID:7156159
Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Monday and Tuesday. This will be his third visit to the region since entering office, and it is part of Japan's Middle East diplomacy efforts meant to aid in ....
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Cease-fire signed in Republic of Congo
Date: 2017-12-23 19:09:56 GMT - Republic of the Congo - International - SN:21 - ID:7155845
A militia said it has signed a cease-fire with the Republic of Congo government, agreeing to stop hostilities and help collect weapons held by fighters, ABC News reported Saturday. Jean Gustave N'Tondo said the Ninjas Nsiloulou fighters signed ....
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Merkel, Macron say Russian military should return to Joint Center in Ukraine
Date: 2017-12-23 18:16:32 GMT - Russia - International - SN:19 - ID:7155797
German and French leaders Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron demanded the Russian military to return to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Ceasefire in Donbass, Russian Tass news agency reported on Saturday. Merkel and Macron said ....
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Zimbabwe takeover leader Chiwenga named Mnangagwa's deputy
Date: 2017-12-23 16:44:39 GMT - Zimbabwe - International - SN:17 - ID:7155660
Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the leader of the military takeover that led to ex-president Robert Mugabe's overthrow Constantino Chiwenga as one of his deputies in the ruling party, BBC news reported on ....
