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Fighting breaks out at Turkish president’s speech in New York
Date: 2017-09-22 14:16:08 GMT - USA - International - SN:14 - ID:7003927
Violence broke out at a New York hotel Thursday afternoon when protesters disrupted a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, The New York Times reported. In the middle of Erdogan’s speech, delivered in Turkish, a man — one of a ....
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Tillerson: Terrorist groups seek reaching nuclear weapons
Date: 2017-09-22 09:20:07 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:7003428
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that many terrorist groups seek reaching nuclear weapons to use them in killing more innocent people around the world. Addressing the UN Security council meeting on prevention of ....
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UN offers up new strategy to advance peace, stability in Libya
Date: 2017-09-21 14:03:28 GMT - Libya - International - SN:16 - ID:7002309
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has launched a United Nations strategy to help bring about peace and stability in Libya and end a protracted crisis that has caused immense suffering and contributed to instability beyond the ....
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One killed in hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Date: 2017-09-21 10:44:13 GMT - Puerto Rico - International - SN:11 - ID:7002104
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello said one fatality had been reported so far from Hurricane Maria which has knocked out power across the island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.5m people, the BBC reported on Thursday. The man died as he was struck ....
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Kurdistan condemns Turkish airstrikes on northern Kurdish region that killed seven civilians
Date: 2017-09-21 10:10:00 GMT - Iraq - International - SN:9 - ID:7002004
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) condemned Thursday Turkish airstrikes on the Kurdistan Region's border that left seven civilians killed. In a statement, the KRG urged Turkey to stop its raids and not to harm the people of the Kurdistan ....
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Macron: Iranian nuclear deal is not enough
Date: 2017-09-21 09:05:50 GMT - France - International - SN:8 - ID:7001977
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday the Iran nuclear deal was not enough given that Tehran had increased its influence in the region and pressed ahead with ballistic missile tests, The New York Times reported Thursday. In a press ....
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US ambassador says Trump's fire and fury comment 'not an empty threat'
Date: 2017-09-18 09:54:39 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:11 - ID:6996462
US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" comment last month about North Korea's nuclear program was not an empty threat. In an interview that aired Sunday with CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the ....
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Netanyahu to directly address Iranian supreme leader Khomeini during un speech
Date: 2017-09-18 09:53:58 GMT - Israel - International - SN:10 - ID:6996447
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will directly address Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the first time during his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday, according to the Prime Minister's Office, Israeli newspaper The ....
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Trump’s message for the United Nations: Reform - report
Date: 2017-09-18 09:27:40 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:6996393
The US administration on Sunday emphasized reform will be on the agenda when President Donald Trump heads to the United Nations for the first time this week. According to the Hill newspaper, senior level officials previewed themes in Trump's ....
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Iran says to shut all border crossings if Kurdistan secedes from Iraq
Date: 2017-09-17 14:56:03 GMT - Iran - International - SN:28 - ID:6995691
A senior Iranian official said on Sunday that that the legitimacy of Iran’s border crossings with the Iraqi Kurdistan region hinged upon the fact that the Kurdish areas are part of an undivided Iraq. "The Islamic Republic will shut all border ....
