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UN Weather Agency says 2014 hottest year
Date: 2015-02-02 11:43:57 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:34 - ID:1877597
The U.N. weather agency says 2014 was the warmest year on record, though the temperature difference with 2010 and 2005 is so small that it's impossible to say for sure which of the three years was the hottest. The World Meteorological ....
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Time not ripe to resume Mideast peace talks -- UN envoy
Date: 2015-02-02 10:32:37 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:26 - ID:1877129
UN Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry said on Monday time is not ripe now to resume stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians as the Israeli elections are soon. Addressing a news conference after talks with ....
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Israeli PM criticizes UN over Lebanon
Date: 2015-02-02 09:00:21 GMT - Israel - International - SN:13 - ID:1876057
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused United Nations peacekeepers on Sunday of failing to enforce a resolution barring Hezbollah fighters from "smuggling weapons into Lebanon." In a phone call with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, ....
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Australian PM Abbott 'has not considered resigning'
Date: 2015-02-02 07:42:29 GMT - Australia - International - SN:7 - ID:1875377
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he has not considered resigning, despite a slump in popularity and growing questions about his leadership, the BBC reported. In a major policy speech, he confirmed the scrapping of a paid parental leave ....
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Robert Gates says Obama’s plan to defeat Islamic State is ‘unrealistic’
Date: 2015-02-02 07:39:33 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:1875353
Former defense secretary Robert M. Gates described President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating Daesh in Iraq and Syria as “unrealistic," adding that ground troops may be necessary to achieve the administration's goals. “I think that the ....
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US nuke sub visits S. Korea for joint drill
Date: 2015-02-02 07:35:34 GMT - south korea - International - SN:3 - ID:1875301
A nuclear-powered US submarine has arrived in South Korea to participate in an annual joint military drill this week, Yonhap said Monday. The USS Olympia (SSN-717), a Los Angeles-class submarine, carrying some 120 sailors, arrived in the southern ....
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Britain PM condemns beheading of Japanese hostage
Date: 2015-02-01 12:08:53 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:3 - ID:1868125
British Prime Minister David Cameron has deplored the purported beheading of a Japanese hostage by Daesh. "I utterly condemn what appears to be the despicable and appalling murder of Kenji Goto," a cabinet press release said on Sunday. "It is ....
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Japanese PM vows not to succumb to terrorism
Date: 2015-02-01 10:59:27 GMT - Japan - International - SN:4 - ID:1868181
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the apparent killing of the Japanese hostage as "despicable" and vowed not to succumb to terrorism, saying Japan "will cooperate with the international community and make the terrorists pay the price," Kyodo ....
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North Korea leader says ready to confront any war, including nuclear conflict
Date: 2015-02-01 08:21:13 GMT - North Korea - International - SN:9 - ID:1868301
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said that the country "is ready to fight any war, including a nuclear one." North Korean military forces "should stage intensive military exercises seeking to destroy an imaginary aircraft-carrying strike ....
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3 Chadian troops, 123 Boko Haram militants killed in Cameroon clashes
Date: 2015-01-31 10:16:32 GMT - Chad - International - SN:22 - ID:1862725
Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants have been killed during a series of fierce clashes between the Chadian army and members of the Nigeria-based Boko Haram Takfiri militant group in northern Cameroon, Press TV reported. The Chadian ....
