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Ties with neighbors top Iran priority: Rouhani
Date: 2015-02-23 11:31:25 GMT - Iran - International - SN:32 - ID:2025385
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the enhancement of relations with neighboring countries is a central plank of the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy, Press TV reported Monday. “Having good relations with neighbors is undoubtedly the first ....
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Russia to sign naval gun mount delivery deal with UAE soon - trade minister
Date: 2015-02-23 10:42:49 GMT - Russia - International - SN:30 - ID:2024737
The UAE Emay soon sign a preliminary agreement to purchase a Russian-made 57 mm-caliber naval gun mount, Sputnik news agency quoted Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov as saying. Russia's defense sector research and development ....
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Girl suicide bomber kills 5 in northeastern Nigeria market
Date: 2015-02-23 09:41:02 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:17 - ID:2024005
A witness and hospital records say a girl suicide bomber blew herself up, killing four others and seriously wounding 46 at a busy market in Potiskum in northeastern Nigeria, the ABC News reported. Survivor Anazumi Saleh said the bomber appeared ....
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Kidnapped Indian aid worker freed in Herat
Date: 2015-02-23 08:49:48 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:15 - ID:2023513
An Indian aid worker who was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen eight months before in western Herat Province has been freed, Khaama Press reported Monday. Yesterday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi before this news popped up tweeted “Will ....
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Iran supports efforts to end Syria conflict: Larijani
Date: 2015-02-23 08:23:08 GMT - Iran - International - SN:14 - ID:2023341
Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s support for every effort to help find a political solution to the prolonged conflict in Syria, Press TV reported. In a Sunday meeting with Syrian Ambassador to ....
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Netanyahu slams Herzog for saying Iran not existential threat
Date: 2015-02-23 08:22:07 GMT - Israel - International - SN:13 - ID:2023333
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog of undermining his efforts to prevent Iran’s nuclearization by declining to call a potentially nuclear Iran an existential threat to the State of Israel. “I ....
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N Korea bars tourists from race
Date: 2015-02-23 08:00:40 GMT - North Korea - International - SN:11 - ID:2023229
North Korean authorities are barring foreigners from this year's Pyongyang marathon, a popular tourist event, amid ongoing Ebola travel restrictions, the head of a travel agency that specializes in the country said on Monday, Bangkok Post ....
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Death toll rises to at least 70 in Bangladesh ferry disaster
Date: 2015-02-23 07:49:45 GMT - Bangladesh - International - SN:8 - ID:2023153
The death toll from a weekend ferry disaster in central Bangladesh rose to 70 on Monday in the latest shipping mishap in the South Asian nation, ABC news reported. The official search for more bodies by divers at the accident site was called off ....
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Tony Abbott’s anti-terror laws: Australians to lose citizenship
Date: 2015-02-23 07:47:56 GMT - Australia - International - SN:7 - ID:2023129
Extraordinary powers to strip citizenship from Australians supporting terrorist groups are set to get cross-party support in Parliament. Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s security statement, centred on the threat of the IS “death cult” today carefully ....
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Iran condemns Daesh attack on embassy in Libya
Date: 2015-02-23 07:44:24 GMT - Iran - International - SN:5 - ID:2023081
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denounced two bomb explosions by Daesh Takfiri terrorists outside the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Accurate information indicates that home-made bombs exploded outside the ....