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Floods kill 21 in Malaysia
Date: 2014-12-31 09:46:48 GMT - Malaysia - International - SN:19 - ID:1648081
At least 21 people have been killed and eight others are missing after the worst flooding in decades across Malaysia's northeast, police said Wednesday (Dec 31), with almost a quarter of a million people displaced, Channel News Asia reported. The ....
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Gunmen kill 3, injure 7 in Afghanisatn's Nangahar province
Date: 2014-12-31 09:44:30 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:17 - ID:1648061
An Afghan official says gunmen shot dead a policeman and two civilians after security forces stopped the car and motorcycle in which they were traveling, both of which were loaded with explosives, ABC News reported. Provincial police chief Gen. ....
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US sends five prisoners to Kazakhstan
Date: 2014-12-31 08:52:26 GMT - USA - International - SN:10 - ID:1647405
The U.S. has sent five detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay to Kazakhstan, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The transfer of the prisoners, three Yemenis and two Tunisians, to the central Asian nation brings the number of detainees moved out of ....
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Hong Kong culls chickens, suspends imports after H7 bird flu found
Date: 2014-12-31 08:30:43 GMT - Hong Kong - International - SN:5 - ID:1647145
Hong Kong began culling 15,000 chickens on Wednesday and suspended imports of live poultry from mainland China for 21 days after the H7 bird flu strain was discovered in a batch of live chickens from the southern province of Guangdong, ABC news ....
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Merkel urges Germans to welcome refugees amid growing anti-Muslim movement
Date: 2014-12-31 08:29:26 GMT - Germany - International - SN:4 - ID:1647129
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grass-roots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe's biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war. In an ....
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Iran rejects report on possible Iran-U.S. talks to reopen embassies
Date: 2014-12-30 18:28:12 GMT - Iran - International - SN:59 - ID:1645133
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham categorically rejected a media report that Tehran and Washington planned to talk about reopening of their embassies, underlining that the negotiations between Iran and the U.S. merely focus on the ....
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UK's Cameron to chair Cobr meeting on Ebola today
Date: 2014-12-30 17:42:22 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:57 - ID:1644949
UK Prime Minister David Cameron will chair a COBRA meeting on Ebola on Tuesday, Downing Street has reported on the PM's official Twitter account. "Safety measures are working well and the risk to the public is extremely low," Cameron added. He ....
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Pakistan's police arrest 45 Afghan refugees
Date: 2014-12-30 13:27:16 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:34 - ID:1642897
Pakistan's Peshawar police have launched fresh operations in different parts of Peshawar where they arrested 45 Afghan refugees, the Afghan khaama press agency reported on Tuesday. Police say the arrested Afghans neither have refugee cards nor ....
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Two men held in Bedfordshire over terror offences
Date: 2014-12-30 13:07:47 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:28 - ID:1642777
British Police said that two men have been arrested in Bedfordshire on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses, the BBC reported Tuesday. Raids were made at two addresses in Bedford on Monday morning by the East Counter Terrorism Investigation ....
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Two dead, 4 others missing in fishing boat fire off Dokdo
Date: 2014-12-30 12:33:02 GMT - south korea - International - SN:17 - ID:1642377
Two fishermen died and four others went missing Tuesday after a fishing vessel caught fire off South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, according to Yonhap News Agency. The fire on the Munseong 103 occurred around 5:13 a.m. some 5 nautical ....
