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Obama speaks With Netanyahu amid ceasefire
Date: 2014-08-14 06:19:19 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:873090
US President Barack Obama has consulted by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a 72-hour cease-fire in the Gaza Strip nears expiration, ABC News reported. Obama foreign policy aide Ben Rhodes says Obama talked to Netanyahu ....
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Russians back Putin on Ukraine policy -- poll
Date: 2014-08-13 17:01:52 GMT - Russia - International - SN:40 - ID:872709
Nearly two thirds of Russians support President Vladimir Putin’s actions on Ukraine, Itar-Tass news agency quoted an opinion poll as suggesting Wednesday. Sixty-three percent of respondents said his policies contributed to a peaceful settlement ....
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Israel must end Gaza siege as reparation for crimes: Iranian Leader
Date: 2014-08-13 16:52:14 GMT - Iran - International - SN:38 - ID:872700
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Israel must pay for the crimes it has committed in Gaza by ending the siege of the Palestinian coastal strip, Press TV reported. “As the Palestinians are saying, there must be ....
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Zarif: Iran will not sacrifice nuclear rights
Date: 2014-08-13 15:26:25 GMT - Iran - International - SN:29 - ID:872516
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined Tehran's seriousness in the talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), and said the country will not sacrifice its nuclear rights for the sake of ....
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France to deliver arms to Iraqi Kurds
Date: 2014-08-13 15:11:14 GMT - France - International - SN:26 - ID:872485
France will supply arms to Iraq's Kurds "in the coming hours", French President Francois Hollande has announced. France has received approval from authorities in Baghdad for the decision, French media reports say. Kurdish forces have been ....
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Tony Abbott says Australia poised to join humanitarian effort
Date: 2014-08-13 07:50:22 GMT - Australia - International - SN:11 - ID:871493
Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott says at this stage Australia will only play a humanitarian role in Iraq, as the United Nations calls for the global community to take "urgent" action to avoid a genocide against the Yazidi community, ABC ....
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Putin’s popularity soars to 87%
Date: 2014-08-13 06:44:22 GMT - Russia - International - SN:9 - ID:871389
A new survey showed that Russians are more than happy with their president. The poll by the Levada Center reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin currently enjoys an approval rating of 87% — a 4-point jump since a similar survey was ....
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Obama calls for calm after black man gunned down
Date: 2014-08-13 06:20:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:871353
US President Barack Obama has appealed for calm in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of a black teenager by police sparked two nights of violence, the BBC reported. He described the death on Saturday of Michael Brown as heartbreaking and ....
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ECOWAS official dies from Ebola in Nigeria
Date: 2014-08-13 06:16:40 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:4 - ID:871349
An ECOWAS official has died from Ebola in Nigeria, the West African regional bloc said in a statement on Tuesday, taking the total number of deaths in the country to three. "The ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission ....
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Remarks were not an attack, Hillary Clinton tells Obama
Date: 2014-08-13 06:08:39 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:871337
Hillary Rodham Clinton called President Obama on Tuesday to assure him that comments she made in a recent interview with The Atlantic were not intended “to attack him, his policies or his leadership,” according to a statement released by Clinton’s ....
