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4 workers die after chemical leak at Texas plant
Date: 2014-11-16 08:24:06 GMT - USA - International - SN:12 - ID:1341265
Four workers were killed and one was injured Saturday during a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont industrial plant in suburban Houston, CNN reported quoting company officials. The chemical, methyl mercaptan, began leaking from a valve around 4 ....
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China to host G20 summit in 2016
Date: 2014-11-16 08:20:55 GMT - Australia - International - SN:10 - ID:1341213
China will host world leaders for the G20 summit in 2016, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday at the conclusion of two days of talks in Brisbane, Channel News Asia reported. Turkey takes over the presidency from Australia and ....
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Opposition leader blames Netanyahu for tensions with Israeli Arabs
Date: 2014-11-16 08:16:16 GMT - Israel - International - SN:8 - ID:1341169
Opposition leader and head of the Labor Party Isaac Herzog said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was responsible for recent tensions with Israel’s Arab community, after the unrest in Jerusalem and the West Bank spread to Arab communities within ....
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Putin flies out of Brisbane early after G20
Date: 2014-11-16 08:13:21 GMT - Australia - International - SN:7 - ID:1341137
Russian President Vladimir Putin has left Australia for Moscow after the G20 leaders' summit, saying he needs to get home and get some sleep before going back to work,according to SkyNews Australia website. His presidential jet took off from the ....
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Romanians choose between prime minister and city mayor in presidential runoff
Date: 2014-11-16 08:10:14 GMT - Romania - International - SN:6 - ID:1341089
Romanians have begun voting in a presidential runoff between the prime minister who promises stability and a city mayor who says he will fight corruption, FOX News reported on Sunday. Prime Minister Victor Ponta is favored over the mayor of the ....
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Portuguese navy saves 201 illegal migrants from drowning
Date: 2014-11-15 07:41:16 GMT - Libya - International - SN:2 - ID:1335093
The Portuguese Navy saved Saturday 201 illegal migrants who had sailed from Libya toward Italy. The migrants were on board a wooden boat and were facing death by drowning, the Portuguese Defense Ministry said in a statement published in Tripoli ....
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Russia parliament urges world to save rights of minorities in Syria, Iraq
Date: 2014-11-14 19:44:47 GMT - Russia - International - SN:13 - ID:1334217
Russia’s parliament lower house, the State Duma, on Friday urged the world community to seal off all foreign sources of terrorism funding the Middle East to avoid blatant and massive rights violations of religious and ethnic minorities in Syria and ....
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Lavrov, Kerry say Contact Group on Ukraine should resume work
Date: 2014-11-14 19:41:37 GMT - Russia - International - SN:12 - ID:1334193
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed in a phone conversation held on Friday that the Contact Group on Ukraine should resume its work as soon as possible, ITAR-TASS reported. “Focusing on the ....
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Lavrov, Kerry call for agreement on Iran's nuclear program
Date: 2014-11-12 17:53:05 GMT - Russia - International - SN:57 - ID:1321673
Russian Foreign Minister Segey Lavrov, and US Secretary of State John Kerry have emphasized the need to come to soonest comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program, ITAR TASS reported Wednesday. The two foreign policy chiefs held a ....
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Russia’s Supreme Court could recognize Daesh as terrorist group
Date: 2014-11-12 13:35:21 GMT - Russia - International - SN:43 - ID:1319377
Russian prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to include the so-called Islamic State (IS) or Daesh group and al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra in the list of terrorist organizations, according to TASS. "The relevant request has been submitted to ....
