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Congress Backs Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense with Iron Dome bill
Date: 2014-08-05 09:49:39 GMT - USA - International - SN:13 - ID:859109
The Congress approved a $225 million package to replenish Israel's missile defenses with its last order of business before a five-week recess, as the Jewish state's cease-fire with Hamas unraveled and Israeli forces pushed deep into Gaza in search ....
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UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over detention of British national
Date: 2014-08-05 06:00:45 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:6 - ID:858661
Chargé d’Affaires at the Ethiopian Embassy in the UK Demeke Atnafu was summoned to the Foreign Office on Monday to meet the UK’s Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds. Simmonds expressed deep concern that the Ethiopian authorities had not allowed ....
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James Brady, White House press secretary under Reagan, dies
Date: 2014-08-05 05:23:33 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:858618
James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was badly wounded in the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan and later became an advocate for gun control, has died. He was 73. His family announced Brady's death in a ....
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Britain PM says UN right to speak out on Gaza strike
Date: 2014-08-04 10:16:19 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:40 - ID:857329
The United Nations was right to speak out against an Israeli attack near a UN-run school in Gaza, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said as quoted by the BBC. Palestinian officials said at least 10 people died in the attack on Sunday. UN ....
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Rouhani urges NAM to take solid action to restore Palestinians rights
Date: 2014-08-04 09:35:28 GMT - Iran - International - SN:36 - ID:857233
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed hope that the ministerial meeting of Palestine in Tehran could provide a good opportunity for exploring the ongoing conditions in the occupied Palestine especially in Gaza. The President made the remarks ....
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Syria on track towards peace, unity: Iran official
Date: 2014-08-04 08:46:52 GMT - Iran - International - SN:33 - ID:857135
A senior Iranian official says Syria is moving towards peace and national reconciliation more than three years into the foreign-sponsored turmoil plaguing the Arab country, Press TV reported. On Sunday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and ....
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S. Korea mulling withdrawal of diplomatic staff from Libya
Date: 2014-08-04 08:46:04 GMT - south korea - International - SN:32 - ID:857132
South Korea is carefully considering withdrawing its ambassador and other diplomatic staff from Libya due to the worsening security situation in the violence-ravaged country, government officials said Monday as quoted by Yonhap. Seoul last week ....
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More bodies recovered in massive Nepal landslide
Date: 2014-08-04 08:45:03 GMT - Nepal - International - SN:31 - ID:857130
Rescuers recovered nine more bodies Monday from a massive weekend landslide in northern Nepal, raising the official death toll in the disaster to 19, but say there is no chance of finding alive any of the more than 150 people believed still buried ....
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Bangladesh official says ferry has capsized
Date: 2014-08-04 08:43:12 GMT - Bangladesh - International - SN:30 - ID:857124
A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized Monday in central Bangladesh, ABC News quoted a government official as saying. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority Chairman Samsuddoha Khondaker said M.V. Pinak was crossing the River ....
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China earthquake: Troops join search in Yunnan province
Date: 2014-08-04 08:34:05 GMT - China - International - SN:11 - ID:857040
China has sent 2,500 soldiers to the southwest province of Yunnan after an earthquake killed hundreds of people, the BBC reported. At least 381 people died and more than 1,800 were injured when the magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck on ....
