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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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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Western UNSC members block Russia’s draft resolution on Kiev embassy attack
Date: 2014-06-15 06:52:31 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:6 - ID:778352
Western countries in the United Nations Security Council have blocked Moscow's draft resolution condemning the attack on the Russian embassy in Kiev, Novosti reported quoting a source in the UN. “Western delegations in the Security Council have ....
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Muslim envoys protest over Canberra's move to rename Israel's 'occupied Territories'
Date: 2014-06-15 06:49:56 GMT - Australia - International - SN:5 - ID:778346
A delegation representing 18 countries has lodged a formal protest over Australia's decision to stop referring to Israeli settlements as 'occupied territories', Bernama news agency reported. Rather, the Australian Government has decided to refer ....
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UN chief condemns shooting of Ukrainian plane, 49 aboard killed
Date: 2014-06-15 06:31:21 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:2 - ID:778326
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the strongest terms the downing of a Ukrainian military airplane today in the eastern city of Lugansk, killing all 49 people aboard. “The continuing violence in eastern Ukraine - ....
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US, Turkey probe latest Iraq developments
Date: 2014-06-15 06:28:19 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:778321
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the latest developments in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, or ISIL, according to a White House ....
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EDITORIAL: Iraq crumbles on Obama’s watch
Date: 2014-06-14 13:42:59 GMT - USA - International - SN:46 - ID:777634
Most Americans aren’t much interested in “foreign affairs” until events demand it. Americans pay the president to worry about troubles in faraway places and usually feel entitled to nap until they get a wake-up call. But this is an option not ....
