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AU envoys meet Burkina Faso opposition
Date: 2014-11-04 18:47:29 GMT - Burkina Faso - International - SN:70 - ID:1266193
International envoys tried Tuesday to resolve Burkina Faso's political crisis, with the specter of a power vacuum looming after the country's longtime president fled last week, Fox news reported. Opposition protesters - who said 27 years in power ....
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France urges US coalition support for Syrian rebels in Aleppo
Date: 2014-11-04 18:17:10 GMT - France - International - SN:65 - ID:1266057
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called on Tuesday for the US-led coalition against Daesh to come to the aid of rebels fighting the Syrian regime in the country's second city of Aleppo, France 24 reported on Tuesday. "After Kobane, we must ....
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UN’s Ban Ki-moon condemns elections in Southeastern Ukraine
Date: 2014-11-04 17:38:17 GMT - Austria - International - SN:60 - ID:1265825
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called the elections in self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR, LPR) "unfortunate and counterproductive" development and urged the sides of the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine to deliver ....
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China calls for order in Burkina Faso
Date: 2014-11-04 17:29:30 GMT - China - International - SN:59 - ID:1265749
China called on all parties in the West African country of Burkina Faso to resolve disputes through dialogue and consultation to restore order soon following volatility in the country, Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. Burkina Faso's ....
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Council of Europe secretary general to visit Moscow in late November
Date: 2014-11-04 16:48:53 GMT - Russia - International - SN:54 - ID:1265485
Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland plans to visit Moscow at the end of this month, his spokesman Daniel Holtgen told TASS on Tuesday. In his words, the date of the visit is being specified. A program of meeting is being ....
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UN chief calls for dialogue to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Date: 2014-11-04 13:40:48 GMT - Austria - International - SN:35 - ID:1263817
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called for holding dialogue to settle the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East. In press statements, Ban called upon Palestinians to reunite and support their ....
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Thai man convicted for defaming King on Facebook
Date: 2014-11-04 13:04:23 GMT - Thailand - International - SN:23 - ID:1263469
A Thai court has sentenced a university student to two and half years in prison for posting a message on Facebook that the court found to have insulted the country's king, ABC news reported. A Criminal Court judge on Tuesday found 24-year-old ....
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Riots erupt in Zambia capital
Date: 2014-11-04 12:47:32 GMT - Zambia - International - SN:21 - ID:1263281
Police and demonstrators clashed early Tuesday in protests against the acting president, a white Zambian who fired the ruling party's chief following the death last week of President Michael Sata, ABC news reported. The riots started Monday night ....
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Obama’s top negotiator tapped for new post
Date: 2014-11-04 08:53:25 GMT - USA - International - SN:9 - ID:1261205
The Obama administration’s top diplomat in the sensitive negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program has now been tapped to serve as acting deputy secretary of state. The State Department confirmed Monday that Wendy R. Sherman — at the center of ....
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Argentine president in hospital with fever
Date: 2014-11-03 09:53:03 GMT - Argentina - International - SN:23 - ID:1254177
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has checked into a Buenos Aires hospital for treatment of an "infectious fever," ABC News reported quoting health officials. The presidential medical unit released a statement saying that the 61-year-old ....