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  • Israel to lobby Canada, Australia, Germany to cut ICC funding

    Israel to lobby Canada, Australia, Germany to cut ICC funding

    Date: 2015-01-18 09:44:37 GMT - palestine - International - SN:12 - ID:1765697

    Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the Jerusalem Post quoted officials as saying on ....

  • New Afghan cabinet minister on Interpol list

    New Afghan cabinet minister on Interpol list

    Date: 2015-01-18 09:42:56 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:11 - ID:1765669

    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's agriculture minister in the new cabinet is on an Interpol wanted list for tax evasion in Estonia, Sky news reported. Interpol's website lists Mohammad Yaqub Haidari, 52, as wanted in Estonia for "large-scale tax ....

  • Brazil 'outraged' by Indonesia drug trafficking execution

    Brazil 'outraged' by Indonesia drug trafficking execution

    Date: 2015-01-18 09:07:22 GMT - Brazil - International - SN:5 - ID:1765309

    Brazil says it is "outraged" by the execution of one its citizens in Indonesia for drug trafficking, the BBC reported. Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, 53, was arrested in 2003 after police at Jakarta airport found 13.4 kg of cocaine hidden in his ....

  • Chadian president says to answer Cameroon's call to fight Boko Haram

    Chadian president says to answer Cameroon's call to fight Boko Haram

    Date: 2015-01-18 08:56:06 GMT - Chad - International - SN:4 - ID:1765213

    Chadian President Idriss Deby said that his country has answered the call of Cameroon's President Paul Biya to fight Islamist group Boko Haram, Deutsche Welle reported on Sunday. "We cannot remain indifferent to what happens to our neighbors," ....

  • Missing S. Korean in Turkey left hotel all packed: embassy

    Missing S. Korean in Turkey left hotel all packed: embassy

    Date: 2015-01-18 08:18:35 GMT - south korea - International - SN:2 - ID:1764829

    A South Korean teenager who recently vanished in Turkey left his hotel in a southern Turkish town all packed, according to the South Korean Embassy here Sunday, an indication that he had intended to embark on a long trip, possibly into Syria, Yonhap ....

  • 174 suspected terrorists arrested in Kabul

    174 suspected terrorists arrested in Kabul

    Date: 2015-01-17 13:08:36 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:38 - ID:1761501

    Security Forces have arrested 174 suspected terrorists in past two weeks in Kabul, Khaama Press reported. Abdul Rahman Rahimy, Kabul Police chief says the arrested men were involved in assisting terrorist groups, robbery, kidnapping and other ....

  • Afghan president slams Charlie Hebdo cartoon as 'insult to Islam'

    Afghan president slams Charlie Hebdo cartoon as 'insult to Islam'

    Date: 2015-01-17 11:00:54 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:24 - ID:1760257

    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Saturday the publication of the French satirical magazine which depicts the Prophet Muhammad in caricature on its front cover. Ghani blasted the cartoon as "an insult to the sacred religion of Islam and ....

  • Washington slams ICC for Palestinian war crimes inquiry

    Washington slams ICC for Palestinian war crimes inquiry

    Date: 2015-01-17 09:26:11 GMT - USA - International - SN:10 - ID:1759413

    The US said it “strongly” disagreed with the decision by International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to begin an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Washington would continue to oppose actions against Israel ....

  • Protesters hail Charlie Hebdo gunmen in Istanbul

    Protesters hail Charlie Hebdo gunmen in Istanbul

    Date: 2015-01-17 09:22:53 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:9 - ID:1759381

    Some 160 people in Istanbul held funeral prayers on Friday to honor Cherif and Said Kouachi, the gun-toting brothers who killed 12 people last week in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. The gathering - all of them men - shouted "God is ....

  • Israel FM lashes out at ICC

    Israel FM lashes out at ICC

    Date: 2015-01-16 19:56:57 GMT - palestine - International - SN:19 - ID:1757453

    Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Friday the International Criminal Court (ICC)'s "scandalous decision intended to hurt Israel's right to defend itself from terror", Yediot Aharonot reported "The same court which – with more than ....

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