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  • 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, ....

  • Japan, US eye Abe address to US Congress during upcoming visit

    Japan, US eye Abe address to US Congress during upcoming visit

    Date: 2015-02-22 08:26:09 GMT - Japan - International - SN:8 - ID:2016449

    The Japanese and US governments are planning for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to address the US Congress during a visit to the United States this spring, Kyodo News Agency quoted a Japanese government official as saying on Saturday. That would be ....

  • Turkish soldiers evacuate Tomb of Suleyman Shah in Syria

    Turkish soldiers evacuate Tomb of Suleyman Shah in Syria

    Date: 2015-02-22 08:24:03 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:7 - ID:2016425

    About 40 Turkish soldiers guarding the Tomb of Suleyman Shah in Syria have been evacuated, along with the remains from the tomb, a statement by the Turkish General Staff said. "Legacy heirlooms of high moral value at the Suleyman Shah Respect ....

  • Kiev proposes sending peacekeepers, then police mission to Donbas - foreign minister

    Kiev proposes sending peacekeepers, then police mission to Donbas - foreign minister

    Date: 2015-02-21 16:30:20 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:54 - ID:2014345

    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on Saturday for sending a peacekeeping mission to the conflict area in the eastern part of the country to de-escalate the conflict, then to be followed by a police mission, Interfax reported. The ....

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