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  • 15 killed as Boko Haram attacked local market

    15 killed as Boko Haram attacked local market

    Date: 2014-06-16 06:40:58 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:2 - ID:780120

    Fifteen people were killed Sunday as suspected members of Boko Haram stormed a local market Borno state, northern east of Nigeria. Eyewitnesses said that 20 elements of Boko Haram group attacked the local market in Daku village of Askira Uba, ....

  • Netanyahu: Israel will take all action necessary against 'scourge of terrorism'

    Netanyahu: Israel will take all action necessary against 'scourge of terrorism'

    Date: 2014-06-15 16:56:55 GMT - Israel - International - SN:45 - ID:779663

    Israel will take what ever action is necessary to protect its citizens, the Jerusalem Post quoted Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as warning on Sunday. He spoke just hours after charging that Hamas had kidnapped three missing Israeli ....

  • German FM rules out dispatch of forces to Iraq

    German FM rules out dispatch of forces to Iraq

    Date: 2014-06-15 16:45:39 GMT - Germany - International - SN:43 - ID:779640

    German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the Sunday edition of Die Welt newspaper that the international community "must prevent the outbreak of a proxy war between the regional powers on Iraqi soil," ruling out the deployment of German ....

  • Blair says

    Blair says "We didn't cause Iraq crisis''

    Date: 2014-06-15 15:23:32 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:36 - ID:779493

    The 2003 invasion of Iraq is not to blame for the violent insurgency now gripping the country, former UK prime minister Tony Blair has said. He told the BBC there would still be a "major problem" in Iraq even without the toppling of Saddam ....

  • Iran vice president says extremist groups threaten global peace

    Iran vice president says extremist groups threaten global peace

    Date: 2014-06-15 13:20:27 GMT - Bolivia - International - SN:29 - ID:779216

    Extremist and terrorist groups pose serious threat against world peace and stability, IRNA quoted visiting Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri as saying in a meeting with Bolivian President Evo Morales, here Sunday. The Iranian first vice ....

  • Iranian FM stresses promotion of South-South cooperation

    Iranian FM stresses promotion of South-South cooperation

    Date: 2014-06-15 11:28:29 GMT - Iran - International - SN:21 - ID:778986

    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday underlined the need for reinforcing South-South cooperation to tackle terrorism. Zarif made the remarks at a joint press conference with visiting South African Minister of International ....

  • Road accident leaves 13 dead, 10 injured in Haiti

    Road accident leaves 13 dead, 10 injured in Haiti

    Date: 2014-06-15 08:32:32 GMT - Haiti - International - SN:13 - ID:778551

    A lawmaker's car crashed into a transport van in northern Haiti, killing 13 people and injuring 10. A two-month old infant and his mother, who had been sitting near the front of one of the vehicles, were among those killed in Pont Sonde, police ....

  • 11 election workers killed in Afghan bomb attack

    11 election workers killed in Afghan bomb attack

    Date: 2014-06-15 08:31:11 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:12 - ID:778542

    At least 11 people, including four election workers, have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan, Sky News quoted officials as saying. The governor of the northern province of Samangan said the attack, which happened on Saturday ....

  • S. Korea, US to hold high-level talks on OPCON transfer

    S. Korea, US to hold high-level talks on OPCON transfer

    Date: 2014-06-15 07:08:58 GMT - south korea - International - SN:9 - ID:778372

    South Korea and the United States will hold high-level talks this week in Seoul to discuss when and under what conditions to transfer wartime control of South Korean troops from Washington to Seoul, Yonhap quoted South Korean defense ministry ....

  • Airstrikes kill about 100 militants in Pakistan

    Airstrikes kill about 100 militants in Pakistan

    Date: 2014-06-15 07:05:20 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:8 - ID:778368

    Pakistani military jets pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan early Sunday morning, officials said as quoted by the Voice of America, killing as many as 100 militants in the second strike on the region ....

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