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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 ....
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Egyptian, Russian FMs meet
Date: 2014-08-12 16:29:42 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:40 - ID:870936
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukri on Tuesday in Sochi. The two top diplomats discussed a number of regional and international issues, besides ways to develop bilateral relations in the various domains. ....
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Israel apologizes to Brazil for 'diplomatic dwarf' remark
Date: 2014-08-12 06:39:40 GMT - Israel - International - SN:4 - ID:869653
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin apologized to his Brazilian counterpart for a remark by a foreign ministry spokesperson calling the Latin American powerhouse a "diplomatic dwarf". The comment in July was made by spokesperson Yigal Palmor after ....
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Putin, Sisi to discuss Russia-Egypt economic coop, int'l issues
Date: 2014-08-11 17:41:56 GMT - Russia - International - SN:55 - ID:869331
Russia's Presidency said that President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah El Sisi will meet in Sochi on Tuesday to discuss economic cooperation, regional and international issues, ITAR-TASS reported Monday. “The heads of ....
