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Ban might seek South Korea presidency
Date: 2016-12-21 09:03:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:6190969
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday gave the strongest signal yet that he’s willing to run for president in his native South Korea, Bloomberg reported. Ban said he’d be inclined to run if his decade-long experience as UN head "can be of ....
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Electoral college vote seals Trump White House victory
Date: 2016-12-20 08:30:51 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:6183141
The Electoral College formalized Donald Trump's election victory on Monday despite protests around the country to encourage GOP electors to abandon the Republican. The president-elect easily racked up the 270 electoral votes needed to send him to ....
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Egypt condemns car-ramming attack in Berlin
Date: 2016-12-20 08:24:21 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:2 - ID:6183101
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned a car-ramming attack in Berlin on Monday that left 12 persons dead and 48 injured. The ministry, in a statement on Tuesday, offered its condolences to the German government and families of the victims, ....
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23 hurt in Russian plane crash in Siberia
Date: 2016-12-19 09:08:46 GMT - Russia - International - SN:1 - ID:6175853
The Russian defence ministry said one of its planes has crashed in northeast Siberia, but that nobody had been killed in the accident, Russian news agencies report. The Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft is believed to have been carrying 32 passengers - a ....
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Obama expects terror threat to continue in ME
Date: 2016-12-07 08:38:10 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:6099741
US President Barack Obama said the terrorist threat was never restricted to South Asia, or to Afghanistan, or Pakistan. Even as al Qaeda has been decimated in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the threat from terrorists metastasized in other parts of the ....
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Merkel re-elected to CDU party chairwoman
Date: 2016-12-07 06:36:57 GMT - Germany - International - SN:1 - ID:6098981
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won re-election as chairwoman of her Christian Democrats (CDU) on Tuesday with 89.5 percent of votes cast by just under 1,000 party delegates, giving her a boost as she seeks a fourth term in office next year. The ....
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Russia, China veto UNSC resolution on Aleppo ceasefire
Date: 2016-12-06 07:40:30 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:5 - ID:6092273
Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on immediate seven-day ceasefire in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which was submitted by Egypt, New Zealand and Spain. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier described the draft ....
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Prime Minister Valls set to announce French presidential bid
Date: 2016-12-06 07:37:00 GMT - France - International - SN:4 - ID:6092237
Socialist French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is to announce later on Monday that he will run for president in next year’s election. Valls’ office issued a statement that he would make a declaration at 1730 GMT at the town hall in Evry, just south ....
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Amnesty International urges Turkey to allow 24,000 displaced people to return to Diyarbakir.
Date: 2016-12-06 06:47:43 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:3 - ID:6092033
Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Turkey to compensate and allow 24,000 people displaced under a curfew to return to their districts of the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir. Turkish authorities imposed strict round-the-clock curfews ....
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Presidential office says Park will follow whatever decision parliament makes on her fate
Date: 2016-11-30 08:37:52 GMT - south korea - International - SN:6 - ID:6056321
South Korean President Park Geun-hye will accept whatever decision parliament makes regarding her fate, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, as opposition parties continued to press her to swiftly resign over a corruption scandal ....
