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  • Hagel: U.S. may need ground troops in Iraq

    Hagel: U.S. may need ground troops in Iraq

    Date: 2015-01-31 07:26:40 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:1861485

    Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview on Friday the United States might eventually need to send non-combat ground troops to Iraq to help turn back the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces. Hagel, who ....

  • US secretary of state may visit Moscow on February 4-5

    US secretary of state may visit Moscow on February 4-5

    Date: 2015-01-30 07:54:35 GMT - Russia - International - SN:8 - ID:1855237

    United States Secretary of State John Kerry may visit Moscow on February 4-5 to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Kommersant newspaper said. "Russian and US sides have been working on the possibility of US Secretary of State's ....

  • Obama says not to meet Netanyahu during Washington visit

    Obama says not to meet Netanyahu during Washington visit

    Date: 2015-01-29 08:59:06 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:1848497

    US President Barack Obama says he will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March because his trip to Washington comes too close to Israel's upcoming elections, CNN reported. "I'm declining to meet with him simply because ....

  • UN Envoy: Nigeria needs regional help to defeat Boko Haram

    UN Envoy: Nigeria needs regional help to defeat Boko Haram

    Date: 2015-01-28 16:40:09 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:31 - ID:1845597

    United Nations envoy for the Sahel region Hiroute Guebre Sellassie said on Wednesday that Nigeria cannot defeat Boko Haram fighters alone and that it needs regional multinational force. "Nigeria cannot handle the problem alone, Boko Haram is not ....

  • Israeli Army chief evaluates security situation after Lebanon strike

    Israeli Army chief evaluates security situation after Lebanon strike

    Date: 2015-01-28 16:39:34 GMT - Israel - International - SN:30 - ID:1845589

    Israeli Army Chief of Staff Gen. Benny Gantz made emergency security evaluations on Wednesday after a military vehicle was struck by projectiles near the northern border with Lebanon, according to the Jerusalem Post. Two soldiers were killed and ....

  • Israeli president to address UN session

    Israeli president to address UN session

    Date: 2015-01-28 07:28:03 GMT - Israel - International - SN:2 - ID:1840141

    Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will address a UN session on Wednesday evening, marking 70 years since the end of the Holocaust. His trip comes at a point of high tension between Israel and United States after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ....

  • Kosovo police use tear gas to disperse stone-throwing anti-government protesters

    Kosovo police use tear gas to disperse stone-throwing anti-government protesters

    Date: 2015-01-27 18:30:33 GMT - Kosovo - International - SN:80 - ID:1838437

    Police in Kosovo have fired volleys of tear gas at thousands of anti-government protesters demanding the resignation of a minister who had denied that war crimes were committed against ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war with Serbia, Fox News ....

  • Poll: 55% of Britons would prefer Cameron as PM over Miliband

    Poll: 55% of Britons would prefer Cameron as PM over Miliband

    Date: 2015-01-27 18:20:48 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:78 - ID:1838397

    More than half (55%) of Britons would prefer to see David Cameron carry on as prime minister after the general election. When faced with having to choose either Cameron or Ed Miliband as the next prime minister, only 45% opted for the Labour ....

  • France determined to fight terrorism -- minister

    France determined to fight terrorism -- minister

    Date: 2015-01-27 18:11:41 GMT - France - International - SN:76 - ID:1838361

    French security forces arrested five people in anti-terrorists raids on Tuesday in Lunel, a small town in the south of France, from where at least ten young people have left for Syria, France 24 reported. The raid in the town of Lunel began ....

  • Taliban officials visit China

    Taliban officials visit China

    Date: 2015-01-27 17:49:52 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:72 - ID:1838257

    Taliban have confirmed a visit of their representatives to China but rejected China’s mediation in peace talks, Khaama Press reported. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has sent a statement to media in Afghanistan in which he confirms that a ....

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