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Israeli minister demands Abbas disarm Hamas
Date: 2014-06-06 09:57:01 GMT - palestine - International - SN:4 - ID:764220
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is demanding that Palestinian Unity Government President Mahmoud Abbas disarm the independent Hamas army in Gaza and exert his authority over Gaza. He addd at a meeting with foreign military attaches, that ....
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British Queen in France for three-day state visit
Date: 2014-06-05 16:59:35 GMT - France - International - SN:34 - ID:763405
Queen Elizabeth is to mark the D-Day anniversary as part of a three-day state visit to France. Together with the Duke of Edinburgh she will travel to Paris on Thursday before going on to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of the landings, the BBC ....
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Israel announces 1,500 new housing units in West Bank
Date: 2014-06-05 08:55:52 GMT - Israel - International - SN:9 - ID:762210
The Israeli Housing Ministry announced tenders for 1,500 new housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Wednesday night, Haaretz daily reported. It said this move was termed by Minister Uri Ariel as a response to the new Palestinian ....
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Official: roadside bomb kills 3 Afghanistan police
Date: 2014-06-05 08:32:38 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:8 - ID:762153
A police chief and two other officers were killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded while they were on a demining mission in the southern Gazni province, ABC news channel reported. Mohammad Qasim, police chief for the Waghaz district, had ....
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Death toll rises to 100 after Boko Haram strike in Borno
Date: 2014-06-05 08:00:44 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:7 - ID:762066
More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in Nigeria's Borno State following Tuesday's attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram on four border communities with Cameroun. The attack was a retaliatory one on the villages of Attagara, ....
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UN chief urges South Sudanese rivals to meet as required in peace accord
Date: 2014-06-05 06:39:26 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:5 - ID:761918
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to meet with former Vice-President Riek Machar on Monday, as agreed to in the May 9 document that aimed to end the fighting in the world’s newest country. In a telephone ....
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US does everything to prevent potential for alliance between Russia, EU - Lavrov
Date: 2014-06-05 06:23:09 GMT - Russia - International - SN:2 - ID:761888
The United States leads the way in limiting Russia's opportunities and does everything to prevent the potential for alliance between Russia and the EU, The Voice of Russia quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. "Many analysts ....
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Ban Ki-moon urges world to stop sea level rise
Date: 2014-06-04 11:10:11 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:40 - ID:760602
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the whole world on Wednesday to work for eliminating threat of sea level rise. Ban Ki-moon said in a message for World Environment Day, to be observed on 5 June, that World Environment Day 2014 falls during ....
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Obama to nominate first US ambassador to Somalia in more than two decades
Date: 2014-06-04 10:10:25 GMT - USA - International - SN:33 - ID:760422
US President Barack Obama plans to nominate the first US ambassador to Somalia in more than two decades, a top State Department official said Tuesday as quoted by the CNN. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman called the decision "a reflection ....
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Video shows US soldier handover
Date: 2014-06-04 09:57:33 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:28 - ID:760378
The Taliban have released a video showing the moment Sgt Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to US forces after five years in captivity in Afghanistan, BBC reported. The footage shows him sitting in a pick-up truck, before being walked to a helicopter ....
