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Pope Francis Plans to Visit US in 2015
Date: 2014-11-17 12:57:03 GMT - Vatican - International - SN:60 - ID:1350697
Pope Francis plans to visit the US in 2015, ABC quoted the pontiff as announcing. It would be his first trip to the US as pope. The pope made the announcement when he addressed participants at a Vatican conference on traditional ....
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EU 'committed' to tackling ISIS after Kassig beheading
Date: 2014-11-17 12:27:17 GMT - Belgium - International - SN:58 - ID:1350417
The European Union said Monday it remains "fully committed" to tackling the threat posed by ISIS after it beheaded US aid worker Peter Kassig, The Daily Star reported. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and humanitarian aid commissioner ....
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UK's ex-Army chief: Airstrikes against Daesh 'not good enough'
Date: 2014-11-17 10:58:44 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:44 - ID:1349449
Former chief of the British army General Lord Dannatt said the airstrike campaign against Daesh was "just not good enough". He said it was time for a national debate on how to defeat Islamist fighters from the extremist group. Lord Dannat ....
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Putin says sides not abiding peace deal in Ukraine
Date: 2014-11-17 10:13:16 GMT - Russia - International - SN:40 - ID:1348949
Russia's president said he believes peace in Ukraine is possible but that neither side is fully holding up a truce struck in September, Novosti reported. Putin said he was convinced that it was possible to end the deadlock in east Ukraine, where ....
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N. Korea urges South to halt massive military drill
Date: 2014-11-17 08:28:16 GMT - south korea - International - SN:28 - ID:1347809
North Korea again urged South Korea Monday to suspend its ongoing large-scale military drill, claiming that the exercise has sent inter-Korean ties plunging into the worst crisis, Yonhap reported. The Hoguk defense exercise involving some 330,000 ....
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Ottoman Empire died and will never be back to life again, Mardin Mayor tells MENA
Date: 2014-11-17 08:17:42 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:25 - ID:1347725
A veteran Kurdish politician said the current government in Turkey wants to put the entire Middle East region, not just Egypt, under Ottoman control and re-build the Ottoman Empire, which died long time ago and can never come back to life again. ....
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State Dept. email offline after suspected hack attack
Date: 2014-11-17 08:12:16 GMT - USA - International - SN:22 - ID:1347677
The US State Department has reportedly shut down its unclassified email system as it evaluates potential damage caused by a possible hacker attack, Fox news reported. The department's email system was shut down in a planned outage Friday to make ....
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Obama confirms death of Abdul-Rahman Kassig
Date: 2014-11-17 08:04:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:17 - ID:1347589
US President Barack Obama has confirmed the death of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, whose beheading was shown in a video posted by Islamic State (IS), the BBC news reported. Obama called the act "pure evil" and offered condolences to his ....
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Merkel calls for using every opportunity for dialogue with Russia
Date: 2014-11-17 08:00:23 GMT - Russia - International - SN:7 - ID:1347389
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it is necessary to use every opportunity for a dialogue with Moscow, under the conditions of the Ukrainian crisis and worse relations between the West and Russia, Itar-Tass reported on Sunday. On Saturday, ....
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Iranian lawmaker blames US, its allies for regional crises
Date: 2014-11-17 07:58:27 GMT - Iran - International - SN:15 - ID:1347533
Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that the continued regional crises are the result of "the US and its allies' strategic mistakes," Fars news agency reported. "Dividing ....
