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Pakistan PM announces 3-day mourning over Peshawar school attack victims
Date: 2014-12-16 13:07:16 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:25 - ID:1549865
Describing Peshawar school attack as national tragedy, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced three-day mourning across Pakistan, Samaa reported. The prime minister has reiterated his commitment to carry on effort for a complete eradication of ....
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Iranian official says satisfied with talks with US counterpart
Date: 2014-12-16 12:32:32 GMT - Iran - International - SN:17 - ID:1549561
Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said he was satisfied over talks with his US counterpart, IRNA news agency reported. Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Monday night, he noted that the two sides could ....
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White House, other fed buildings in Washington lose power
Date: 2014-12-16 06:15:48 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:1546085
The White House and several other federal buildings in Washington lost power Monday, the result of a blown transformer and a separate construction mishap. The State Department says a power line serving its headquarters was severed in a morning ....
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Obama: No safe haven for Daesh
Date: 2014-12-16 06:12:38 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:1546069
US President Barack Obama has warned Daesh group saying a U.S.-led coalition will permit no safe haven to the group and will destroy it eventually. Obama's remarks were made to hundreds of camouflage-wearing troops in a hangar at Fort Dix to ....
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Iran, US start new round of nuclear talks in Geneva
Date: 2014-12-15 18:53:46 GMT - Iran - International - SN:67 - ID:1545281
Senior officials from Iran and the United States have started a new round of talks in the Swiss city of Geneva over Tehran's nuclear program, Press TV reported Monday. The Iranian delegation is headed by Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and ....
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Lavrov, Kerry continue discussing Palestinian-Israeli settlement by phone -- Foreign Minstry
Date: 2014-12-15 18:22:48 GMT - Russia - International - SN:66 - ID:1545173
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday continued discussing Palestinian-Israeli settlement by phone, Tass quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying. "Lavrov and Kerry held a phone conversation on ....
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Crimea became part of nuclear Russia -- Lavrov
Date: 2014-12-15 18:22:09 GMT - Russia - International - SN:65 - ID:1545169
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday said Crimea has now become part of a country that has such weapons under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Interfax reported. "By international law, the Russian state has all ....
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Sydney siege ends as police raid cafe
Date: 2014-12-15 18:21:03 GMT - Australia - International - SN:63 - ID:1545145
Australian special forces and police stormed the Lindt cafe in Sydney early Tuesday from two directions, and the hostage-taker was shot and killed, a security source said, the CNN reported. There were at least nine people in the building at the ....
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Blair has opposed to use of torture, his offie says
Date: 2014-12-15 17:27:02 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:59 - ID:1544761
The office of former British prime minister Tony Blair issued a statement saying the ex-PM "has always been opposed to the use of torture", after a call was made for former government leaders to face questions over Britain's involvement with a ....
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Australia commandos end Sydney cafe siege
Date: 2014-12-15 17:25:04 GMT - Australia - International - SN:56 - ID:1544741
Australian commandos have stormed a cafe in Sydney, ending a 16-hour siege by a gunman identified as an Iranian refugee who took dozens of hostages, the BBC reported. Paramedics carrying stretchers raced towards the cafe moments after the ....
