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Taliban rocket kill a woman and her 3 children in Kunar province
Date: 2015-09-06 08:25:47 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:2 - ID:3295265
A woman was killed along with her three children after a rocket fired by Taliban militants landed in a residential house in eastern Kunar province, Khaama Press reported. According to local government officials, the incident took place in Chapa ....
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Merkel: Germany can cope with refugees without raising taxes
Date: 2015-09-05 12:08:07 GMT - Germany - International - SN:10 - ID:3291249
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Berlin can cope with a record-breaking influx of refugees and migrants this year without raising taxes and without jeopardizing its goal of a balanced budget, the Guardian reported. "We won't raise ....
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Afghan president opens meeting of donor countries with positive progress report
Date: 2015-09-05 12:06:54 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:9 - ID:3291241
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has opened a conference of donors to his country's reconstruction after almost 40 years of war, telling them he has made progress on a range of major challengers including security and corruption, the Fox News ....
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Panetta : Arms control agreements are controversial
Date: 2015-09-05 09:41:19 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:3290129
Arms control agreements are by their very nature controversial, Los Angeles Times quoted former US defense secretary Leon Panetta as saying. They often fall short of achieving everything that was hoped for. Potential gaps in enforcement can make ....
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Queen Elizabeth to make rare public speech on day she overtakes Victoria as longest-reigning monarch
Date: 2015-09-05 09:39:01 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:7 - ID:3290081
Queen Elizabeth is expected to make a rare public speech thanking her British and Commonwealth subjects for 63 years of support when she becomes longest-reigning monarch on Wednesday, The Telegraph reported. Her Majesty, who had originally wanted ....
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Hillary Clinton: Syrian refugee crisis is global
Date: 2015-09-05 08:36:14 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:3289645
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that the United States should help to address the Syrian refugee crisis, but added that a much larger global response was needed to resolve the issue. In an interview with the MSNBC TV network, she ....
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Brazil president criticizes Europe over refugee crisis
Date: 2015-09-05 08:33:56 GMT - Brazil - International - SN:4 - ID:3289613
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff criticized European nations for creating "barriers" to the entry of migrants, saying the Syrian child found on a beach in Turkey had died because he was "not welcome," the Daily Mail reported. Three-year-old ....
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David Cameron: UK to accept 'thousands' more Syrian refugees
Date: 2015-09-04 13:46:06 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:6 - ID:3286741
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the UK is to provide resettlement to "thousands" more Syrian refugees in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis, the BBC reported. He said the extra refugees would come from UN camps ....
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Israel opposes Palestinian flag-raising at the UN
Date: 2015-09-02 08:09:11 GMT - palestine - International - SN:6 - ID:3270633
Israel has expressed strong opposition to a draft resolution that would allow the Palestinian flag to be raised at the United Nations ahead of the annual gathering of world leaders later this month. Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor appealed to UN ....
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US launches drone campaign to hunt Daesh leaders in Syria
Date: 2015-09-02 08:04:17 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:3270577
The CIA and US Special Operations forces have launched a campaign to hunt terrorism suspects in Syria as part of a targeted killing program that is run separately from the broader US military offensive against Daesh terrorists, The Washington Post ....
