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Erdogan says 200 Kurdish fighters from Iraq to enter Kobani
Date: 2014-10-24 16:21:49 GMT - Iraq - International - SN:15 - ID:1191781
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that an agreement had been reached on sending 200 Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq through Turkey to help defend the Syrian border town of Kobani against Daesh militants, The Daily Star reported on ....
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Cameron: UK won't pay £1.7bn EU bill next month
Date: 2014-10-24 16:20:22 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:14 - ID:1191773
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the bill presented to the UK by the EU is "completely unacceptable," the BBC reported Friday. "If people think I am paying that bill on 1 December, they have another thing coming," the prime minister said ....
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No Daesh link found in attack on parliament -- Canadian FM
Date: 2014-10-24 15:27:07 GMT - Canada - International - SN:13 - ID:1191525
There is no evidence so far that a gunman who attacked Canada's parliament had links to the terrorist Daesh group, stated the Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird on Friday to the BBC. "Gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was certainly radicalized, but ....
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Cameron: EU has secured 1 billion for Ebola fight
Date: 2014-10-24 12:46:56 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:8 - ID:1190485
British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the European Union secured one billion euros ($1.25 billion) to fight the Ebola crisis in West Africa, according to ABC News. Cameron made the announcement as Friday's self-imposed deadline was ....
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Obama on Canada shooting: 'We're All Shaken by It'
Date: 2014-10-23 07:48:38 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:1181789
US President Barack Obama condemned fatal shootings in Canada on Wednesday as "outrageous attacks." ''We're all shaken by it," he said. Obama said the motive for the shootings remained unknown. But he said as more becomes known, that information ....
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NATO delegation arrives in Cairo
Date: 2014-10-22 17:10:13 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:71 - ID:1179477
Ambassador Thrasyvoulos Terry Stamatopoulos, NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, arrived in Cairo Wednesday leading a NATO delegation. Stamatopoulos is due to discuss with Egyptian officials issues of ....
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WHO aims for Ebola serum in weeks, vaccine tests in Africa by January
Date: 2014-10-22 17:09:49 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:70 - ID:1179469
The World Health Organization has announced it hopes to begin testing two experimental Ebola vaccines in west Africa by January and may have a blood serum treatment available for use in Liberia within two weeks, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. ....
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US urges Russia to work jointly to solve global problems :Kerry
Date: 2014-10-22 17:05:46 GMT - Germany - International - SN:65 - ID:1179405
Despite the conflict in Ukraine, the United States seeks to work jointly with Moscow to solve issues of global importance, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, according to Itar-TASS. Germany’s DPA news agency quoted Kerry as ....
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Crisis in Ukraine stems from Western attempts to move division lines eastwards
Date: 2014-10-22 10:45:08 GMT - Russia - International - SN:34 - ID:1175945
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has blamed the crisis in Ukraine on attempts by the West to move Euro-Atlantic division lines eastwards, TASS reported Wednesday. “The Ukrainian crisis is a direct effect of attempts by our Western ....
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Washington: Obama willing to help Kurdish forces in Kobani
Date: 2014-10-22 10:42:44 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:33 - ID:1175909
US White House Spokesman Eric Schultz said that President Barack Obama had talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyib Erdogan to inform him of the US willingess to help Kurds in the Syrian border town of Kobani against Daesh attacks. The ....