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UNODC to help Nepal fight wildlife crimes
Date: 2014-12-06 08:05:35 GMT - Austria - International - SN:8 - ID:1479585
Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov has met with government leaders in Nepal and learned about the country's anti-poaching initiatives as part of his official visit to South Asia, a statement by the UNODC ....
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Kerry to Sen. Feinstein: Consider timing of CIA report release
Date: 2014-12-06 08:00:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:1479537
Secretary of State John Kerry asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday to "consider" the timing of the expected release of a report on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques. The official said Kerry called Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate ....
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Obama picks Ashton Carter to be defense secretary
Date: 2014-12-05 12:15:18 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:1476561
US President Barack Obama has picked former Pentagon official Ashton Carter to be his next secretary of Defense, Fox News quoted a White House official as confirming Friday. The official said Obama would announce his intent to nominate Carter to ....
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Kerry: Russia isolating itself over Ukraine policies
Date: 2014-12-04 20:51:07 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:30 - ID:1474077
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that Moscow had only itself to blame for the misery caused by sanctions imposed for its intervention in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported. Speaking at a meeting of senior diplomats for countries ....
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White House unable to list qualifications of Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to Hungary
Date: 2014-12-04 07:53:47 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:1467905
The White House struggled on Tuesday to defend Colleen Bell, President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to Hungary but failed. Bell, a top Obama reelection campaign bundler and a producer of the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful, was ....
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WFP launches campaign to raise US$64m to help 1.7m Syrian refugees
Date: 2014-12-04 07:09:57 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:2 - ID:1467629
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced the launch of an ambitious 72-hour campaign to raise US$64million which will reinstate Syrian refugees’ food vouchers in December. The three-day campaign – starting Wednesday – asks members ....
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Conference on Middle East weapons-free zone may be convened soon — Lavrov
Date: 2014-12-03 17:12:07 GMT - Sudan - International - SN:48 - ID:1465953
A conference on creating the Middle East nuclear weapon free zone could be convened in the near future as signs of compromise are emerging, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the second session of Arab-Russian forum in Khartoum on ....
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Ex-Israeli minister: Netanyahu is afraid, must be replaced
Date: 2014-12-03 17:08:16 GMT - Israel - International - SN:47 - ID:1465933
Sacked Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a party faction meeting Wednesday, calling his speech to announce new elections the night before the words of a coward, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. "The ....
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Kerry says Daesh group 'significantly' damaged
Date: 2014-12-03 13:24:28 GMT - Belgium - International - SN:45 - ID:1464113
Air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition on Daesh have inflicted "significant" damage on the group's capabilities, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, the BBC reported. Kerry said the campaign against the militant group could take ....
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Ex-Israeli minister: Netanyahu is afraid, must be replaced
Date: 2014-12-03 12:13:45 GMT - Israel - International - SN:41 - ID:1463417
Sacked Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a party faction meeting Wednesday, calling his speech to announce new elections the night before the words of a coward, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. "The ....
