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Powerful Hurricane Odile bears in on Mexico's Baja
Date: 2014-09-15 08:56:49 GMT - Mexico - International - SN:18 - ID:941589
A powerful Hurricane Odile closed in on the resort area of Los Cabos on Sunday night as Mexican authorities evacuated vulnerable coastal areas and readied shelters for up to 30,000 people, ABC news reported. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in ....
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Security Council deplores ‘heinous’ murder of British aid worker by Islamic militants
Date: 2014-09-15 07:32:25 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:12 - ID:940889
Members of the United Nations Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned the “heinous and cowardly” murder of David Haines, a British humanitarian aid worker, by the armed group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the UN ....
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Uganda arrests 19 tied to suspected attack plot
Date: 2014-09-15 06:46:36 GMT - Uganda - International - SN:2 - ID:940561
Ugandan police have arrested 19 people in connection with a foiled attack in central Kampala, the BBC reported on Sunday. A spokesman for Ugandan police declined to provide additional details about the individuals. "The attack was foiled at a ....
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UK PM says Britain will 'hunt down' Daesh killers
Date: 2014-09-14 15:45:28 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:33 - ID:938309
Britain will take "whatever steps are necessary" to keep the country safe, following the killing of hostage David Haines by the so-called Islamic State militants, the BBC quoted British Prime Minister David Cameron as saying Sunday. Cameron said ....
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Kerry receives no public commitments from Egypt over Daesh fight - paper
Date: 2014-09-14 15:32:56 GMT - USA - International - SN:31 - ID:938213
US Secretary of State John Kerry received broad assurances but no public commitments from Egypt on Saturday as he continued his tour of the Middle East to try to assemble a coalition behind an American campaign against the extremist group known as ....
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Iran’s Rouhani to visit Russia for Caspian Sea summit
Date: 2014-09-14 12:24:45 GMT - Iran - International - SN:23 - ID:936581
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani will start an official visit to Russia on September 29 to attend the upcoming summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states, government sources said on Sunday. The 4th summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states is ....
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Ebola outbreak: Liberian president asks Barack Obama for more help
Date: 2014-09-14 10:25:47 GMT - Liberia - International - SN:14 - ID:935261
Liberia has appealed to the United States for urgent aid to tackle the Ebola outbreak, ABC News reported. Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on women's rights, has written to US president Barack ....
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David Haines's 'evil murder' condemned by PM
Date: 2014-09-14 10:13:14 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:12 - ID:935105
The murder of David Haines was an "act of pure evil", David Cameron has said after the release of a video appearing to show the UK hostage's beheading, the BBC reported. The 44-year-old aid worker was seized in Syria in 2013. He was being held by ....
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Australia to send 600 troops to UAE to face Daesh threat
Date: 2014-09-14 07:02:42 GMT - Australia - International - SN:4 - ID:933589
Australia said it is sending 600 troops to the Middle East ahead of possible combat operations against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, the BBC reported. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the deployment, initially to the United Arab Emirates, ....
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About 100 rescued from sunken Philippine ferry
Date: 2014-09-14 06:50:51 GMT - Philippines - International - SN:3 - ID:933517
Rescuers saved about 100 people overnight and recovered two bodies from a ferry that sank in rough seas after encountering steering trouble in the central Philippines, ABC News quoted officials as saying Sunday. Coast guard Capt. Joseph Coyme ....
