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Berlin aims to open much-delayed airport in 2017
Date: 2014-12-13 09:03:38 GMT - Germany - International - SN:13 - ID:1526385
Berlin's new airport should be open within three years, barring further unforeseen problems, the ABC News reported Friday. German news agency dpa quoted Rainer Bretschneider, the deputy chairman of the airport's supervisory board, as saying that ....
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Pakistan police: 4 Taliban plotting attack killed
Date: 2014-12-13 08:41:47 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:11 - ID:1526237
A senior police officer in Pakistan says officers killed four Taliban fighters likely plotting to attack a planned Shiite rally, ABC News reported. Officer Rai Zameerul Haq says the four men were spotted traveling in a vehicle Saturday near the ....
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Nicaragua: 8 fishermen rescued after boat capsized in Caribbean
Date: 2014-12-13 08:37:05 GMT - Nicaragua - International - SN:10 - ID:1526221
Nicaraguan authorities have rescued eight more crewmen from a fishing boat that capsized in the Caribbean four days ago and are still searching for 18 others, according to ABC News. Navy officials said the lobster boat MN Wayward Wind turned over ....
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Pentagon: airstrikes against Daesh continue in Syria, Iraq
Date: 2014-12-13 08:10:27 GMT - USA - International - SN:7 - ID:1526025
US and partner-nation military forces have continued to attack terrorist Daesh sites in Syria and Iraq over the last three days, the US Department of Defense said on Friday. "Fighter and bomber aircraft have conducted seven airstrikes in Syria ....
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Hagel, Ya'alon discuss regional issues on phone
Date: 2014-12-13 07:46:07 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:1525901
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has discussed in a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Moshe Ya'alon regional issues of mutual concern. A statement by the Pentagon said the two sides talked about operations against ....
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Pope calls for urgent solutions to achieve world peace
Date: 2014-12-12 18:50:47 GMT - Vatican - International - SN:13 - ID:1524869
Vatican Pope Francis on Friday sent 'cordial greetings' to the participants of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Radio Vaticana reported, adding that he prayed for renewed and encouraged work for world peace. The pontiff sent his ....
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Moscow: CIA torture report asserts US blatant violations to human rights
Date: 2014-12-11 10:57:28 GMT - Russia - International - SN:13 - ID:1516265
The report on torture in CIA secret prisons is another proof that the US authorities have systematically violated human rights, Russia’s human rights ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov said on Thursday, according to ITAR TASS “This situation is in ....
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U.S. closes Bagram detention center, hands over last Afghan prisoners
Date: 2014-12-11 08:01:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:1514481
The U.S. has closed its controversial detention center near Bagram Air Base, leaving it with no prisoners in Afghanistan, after it turned over two Tunisian prisoners mentioned in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA interrogation ....
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Kerry summons Netanyahu to Rome for urgent meeting before PA bid to UN
Date: 2014-12-10 17:21:23 GMT - Israel - International - SN:50 - ID:1512349
US Secretary of State John Kerry has summoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an urgent meeting next Monday ahead of a United Nations Security Council vote in two weeks on a Palestinian Authority timetable to demand a final deadline for ....
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Venezuela's armed forces shoot down two planes
Date: 2014-12-10 12:21:41 GMT - Venezuela - International - SN:26 - ID:1509701
Venezuela's armed forces have shot down two unidentified planes violating the country's airspace, Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez posted on his Twitter account, according to ITAR TASS. The minister posted photos of two light ....
