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Pakistan calls for urgent measures as heatwave toll nears 700
Date: 2015-06-23 14:58:53 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:29 - ID:2851429
Pakistan's prime minister called for emergency measures as the death toll from a heatwave in southern Sindh province reached nearly 700. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said it had received orders from Nawaz Sharif to take ....
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Taliban attack Afghan parliament, clashes continue
Date: 2015-06-22 08:01:21 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:4 - ID:2841141
Taliban militants have attacked the compound of Afghan parliament in capital Kabul, Khaama Press reported. Afghan MPs were seen in TV footage leaving the house. Officials have not yet released information regarding the situation in parliament ....
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Sisi meets PM over one-million feddans project
Date: 2015-06-21 16:45:16 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:27 - ID:2839465
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held a meeting Sunday with Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouli and Chairman of the General Authority for Construction and Housing Cooperatives Hossameddin Rizq on Sunday. The meeting ....
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Millionaires prepare to launch £20million non-political campaign for Britain to quit EU
Date: 2015-06-21 10:36:50 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:18 - ID:2836361
A major £20million campaign funded by some of the country’s richest entrepreneurs and business people to persuade Britons to leave the European Union will launch in September, the Telegraph newspaper reported. The organizers of the campaign are ....
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Japan, S. Korea FMs meet amid rows over WWII issues
Date: 2015-06-21 10:34:25 GMT - Japan - International - SN:20 - ID:2836681
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met Sunday in Tokyo with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung Se, who is making the first visit to Japan by a South Korean foreign minister in four years, amid bilateral relations badly strained over World ....
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UK spies join battle to stop Libyan traffickers as Cameron ramps up migrant crisis fight
Date: 2015-06-21 10:02:24 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:17 - ID:2836349
A special team of communication experts and intelligence analysts based at GCHQ in Cheltenham will form a network with European agencies to “identify organized crime groups smuggling migrants to the Libyan coast, identify the routes and methods the ....
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Blast hits commuter bus in Istanbul
Date: 2015-06-21 09:26:34 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:15 - ID:2836061
A blast ripped through a passenger bus in the Turkish city of Istanbul Sunday morning with no death cases reported. Turkish media reported that the driver of the bus was critically injured and rushed to hospital. Security forces reached the ....
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Erdogan rebuts claims on forming new gov.
Date: 2015-06-21 09:07:00 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:14 - ID:2835857
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied reports on forming a new government. According to Millyet newspaper, Erdogan said the formation of the new government will take place after the election of a speaker for the parliament. Erdogan, in ....
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Turkish MHP leader mocks CHP offer, lines up conditions for AKP coalition
Date: 2015-06-21 09:04:39 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:12 - ID:2835829
Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has personally mocked a suggestion by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who offered him the prime minister’s seat in a possible ....
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S. Korea reports 3 new cases of MERS, but no additional death
Date: 2015-06-21 07:51:06 GMT - south korea - International - SN:6 - ID:2835341
South Korea reported three more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Sunday, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the disease here to 169, Yonhap news agency reported. The new cases, including a medical doctor from ....
