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  • Netanyahu slams Herzog for saying Iran not existential threat

    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 ....

  • N Korea bars tourists from race

    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 ....

  • Death toll rises to at least 70 in Bangladesh ferry disaster

    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 ....

  • Tony Abbott’s anti-terror laws: Australians to lose citizenship

    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 ....

  • Iran condemns Daesh attack on embassy in Libya

    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 ....

  • S. Korea summons Japan envoy over islet ceremony

    S. Korea summons Japan envoy over islet ceremony

    Date: 2015-02-23 07:42:42 GMT - south korea - International - SN:4 - ID:2023065

    South Korea summoned a senior Japanese diplomat here Monday to protest a Japanese prefecture's hosting of an annual event to promote its territorial claim to Seoul's easternmost islets of Dokdo, Yonhap news agency reported. Japan's Shimane ....

  • Netanyahu: 'Astonishing' that talks continue with Iran despite it hiding info from IAEA

    Netanyahu: 'Astonishing' that talks continue with Iran despite it hiding info from IAEA

    Date: 2015-02-22 11:49:49 GMT - Israel - International - SN:33 - ID:2018469

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the international community on Sunday for continuing its talks with Iran without being troubled by that country's support for global terrorism. At Sunday's cabinet meeting just a week before he ....

  • U.S. weighs slowing Afghan withdrawal: Carter

    U.S. weighs slowing Afghan withdrawal: Carter

    Date: 2015-02-22 11:44:42 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:2016169

    The United States is considering slowing a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan to ensure that "progress sticks" after more than a decade of war, new Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, VOA news reported. Under the current plan, the ....

  • Park to travel to 4 Middle East nations next month

    Park to travel to 4 Middle East nations next month

    Date: 2015-02-22 09:08:25 GMT - south korea - International - SN:15 - ID:2016857

    South Korean President Park Geun-hye plans to visit Saudi Arabia and three other Middle Eastern countries next month to discuss energy and security issues with their heads of state, Yonhap news agency reported quoting the presidential office as ....

  • 18 insurgents killed in military operations in Afghanistan

    18 insurgents killed in military operations in Afghanistan

    Date: 2015-02-22 09:07:35 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:14 - ID:2016845

    Afghan National Security Forces have killed 18 insurgents during operations in different parts of the country in past 24 hours, Khaama Press reported quoting officials as saying on Sunday. The operation were conducted in Herat, Takhar, ....

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