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Boko Haram frees 200 hostages in northeast Nigeria
Date: 2015-01-25 13:54:21 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:44 - ID:1820305
Nigerian group Boko Haram has released nearly 200 hostages, most of them women, who were kidnapped from a village in the northeast Nigerian state of Yobe, according to The Sunday Telegraph. A total of 192 people were released from two Islamist ....
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Netanyahu "will go anywhere invited" to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons
Date: 2015-01-25 13:12:23 GMT - Israel - International - SN:40 - ID:1819933
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened this week’s Sunday cabinet meeting with a grim warning about the current negotiations taking place between world powers and Iran — and the implications for Israel, according to The Jerusalem Post. World ....
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Liberman orders party to buy up, distribute Charlie Hebdo
Date: 2015-01-25 11:32:06 GMT - palestine - International - SN:29 - ID:1818953
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday he had instructed Yisrael Beytenu party activists to buy thousands of copies of the latest issue of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and distribute them to the public, pushing back against feared ....
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Livni: Netanyahu ruining US ties for election speech
Date: 2015-01-25 09:43:59 GMT - Israel - International - SN:18 - ID:1817833
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Yesh Atid party chief Yair Lapid have warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was wrecking Israel’s relationship with the White House for political gains, The Times of Israel reported. Livni and ....
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Obama pays respects at Gandhi memorial
Date: 2015-01-25 09:15:38 GMT - India - International - SN:17 - ID:1817617
US President Barack Obama on Sunday visited Raj Ghat to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi at the final resting place of the Father of the Nation, according to ABC News. Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Piyush ....
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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic
Date: 2015-01-25 08:39:03 GMT - Japan - International - SN:10 - ID:1817313
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday it is highly likely that an image purporting to show that one of the two Japanese hostages being held by a group believed to be Daesh has been killed is authentic, Kyodo News reported. "We cannot ....
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Netanyahu damaging Israel's ties with US for one election campaign speech -- former Israeli minister
Date: 2015-01-24 13:20:52 GMT - Israel - International - SN:39 - ID:1813073
Head of Israeli Yesh Atid party and former finance minister Yair Lapid slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday regarding his upcoming speech in the US Congress which is set to take place on March 3, a few weeks before the March 17 ....
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Fate of 2 Japanese captives remains unknown
Date: 2015-01-24 09:32:53 GMT - Japan - International - SN:21 - ID:1810861
The fate of two Japanese men taken hostage by a group claiming to be Islamic State militants operating in Syria and Iraq remained unknown Saturday, with the group apparently not having made any announcements since the perceived deadline for payment ....
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Yemen crisis disrupts US counter-terrorism operations, officials say
Date: 2015-01-24 07:35:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:1809801
The Obama administration has been forced to suspend certain counter-terrorism operations with Yemen in the aftermath of the collapse of its government, according to US officials, a move that eases pressure on al-Qaeda’s most dangerous ....
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Kremlin: Putin, IMF chief discuss ways of solving Ukrain economic crisis
Date: 2015-01-23 08:48:34 GMT - Russia - International - SN:16 - ID:1803945
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde had a telephone conversation on Thursday to discuss issues of international assistance in overcoming the profound financial and ....
