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  • 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 ....

  • 3 die in protest against MINUSMA in Mali

    3 die in protest against MINUSMA in Mali

    Date: 2015-01-27 17:47:55 GMT - Mauritania - International - SN:71 - ID:1838249

    At least three people have been killed when United Nations peacekeepers used live rounds to disperse protesters in Mali’s conflict-ridden Gao, Press TV reported. On Tuesday, a huge crowd of angry youths gathered for a second day outside the ....

  • British military aid to Jordan

    British military aid to Jordan

    Date: 2015-01-27 17:23:07 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:64 - ID:1838093

    UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Philip Hammond Tuesday laid a departmental Minute proposing the gifting of non-lethal equipment to the Jordanian Armed Forces. "My right honourable Friend, the former Secretary of State ....

  • Obama challenges India on women's rights and religious tolerance

    Obama challenges India on women's rights and religious tolerance

    Date: 2015-01-27 15:33:02 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:54 - ID:1837257

    US President Barack Obama challenged India’s record on religious tolerance and women’s rights on Tuesday in a parting speech to students in Delhi that contrasted with the at-times saccharin feel of a state visit designed to highlight the closeness ....

  • 40 world leaders to participate in AU summit in Ethopoia

    40 world leaders to participate in AU summit in Ethopoia

    Date: 2015-01-27 15:26:11 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:30 - ID:1835237

    Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, said on Tuesday that about 40 world countries' leaders are expected to participate in the 24th African Union Summit that kicks off in the Ethiopian capital on Friday. The US ....

  • State of emergency declared in several US states

    State of emergency declared in several US states

    Date: 2015-01-27 07:43:44 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:1832101

    States of emergency were declared in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire as people were urged to stay home with transit systems, including the New York City subway, suspending services and roadways closed ....

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