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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, ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....