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Lieberman: “We Need To Defeat Hamas”
Date: 2014-08-10 12:30:07 GMT - Israel - International - SN:11 - ID:867018
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated that Israel should defeat Hamas, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported. “The demands of the organization are beyond what Israel can agree to,” Lieberman stressed. In the background of the ....
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Israel shunning truce talks until fire from Gaza stops - Netanyahu
Date: 2014-08-10 12:07:47 GMT - Israel - International - SN:9 - ID:866976
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would stay away from Egyptian-mediated truce talks with Hamas as long as Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks from the Gaza Strip continued, according to Ynet. "Israel will not ....
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Ban voiced concern over humanitarian, security situation in Iraq
Date: 2014-08-10 07:26:56 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:1 - ID:866456
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern over humanitarian and security situation in Iraq. The UN and the international community are closely watching the political developments in Iraq, he said. Ban called on all the political parties ....
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Obama: No timetable for Iraq airstrikes
Date: 2014-08-09 17:33:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:28 - ID:866109
US airstrikes have "successfully destroyed arms and equipment" that terrorists with ISIS could have used against the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil in Iraq, US President Barack Obama said Saturday. "We feel confident" that military efforts can ....
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US. aircraft conduct targeted airstrike in northern Iraq: Pentagon
Date: 2014-08-08 17:14:37 GMT - USA - International - SN:36 - ID:864814
The US military conducted a targeted airstrike today against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in northern Iraq, the Pentagon press secretary said. At about 6:45 a.m. EDT, two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs ....
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S. Korea issues travel warning for Ebola-hit Nigeria
Date: 2014-08-08 15:41:17 GMT - south korea - International - SN:28 - ID:864726
South Korea on Friday issued a special travel advisory for Nigeria's Ebola-hit capital Lagos as part of efforts to control the spread of the virus, Yonhap quoted the South Korean health ministry as saying. During an emergency meeting of ....
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US forces strike ISIS militants in Iraq
Date: 2014-08-08 15:35:12 GMT - USA - International - SN:25 - ID:864717
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said that US forces have struck Islamic militant targets in Iraq, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. Two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Arbil, ....
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Russians mock Obama with racist birthday message
Date: 2014-08-08 09:26:32 GMT - USA - International - SN:10 - ID:864110
In further evidence of the faltering of Russian-American relations, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was lit up for a brief period with birthday wishes for President Obama — that came with racist slants, The Washington Times reported. The first message ....
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UN flags at half-mast to honour staff killed in Gaza conflict
Date: 2014-08-07 19:56:03 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:21 - ID:863615
The United Nations flag is flying at half-mast on Thursday at the world body's New York Headquarters in memory of the UN staff members killed since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza on 8 July, and in solidarity with the families and friends of ....
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Boko Haram Kills ‘Dozens’ in Nigeria
Date: 2014-08-07 10:10:45 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:8 - ID:862658
Residents from the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza say Boko Haram militants killed dozens of locals on Thursday, Leadership newspaper reported. “The soldiers guarding us just went away as the militants advanced against our town,” a resident ....
