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Bombing at Nigerian soccer match kills at least 40
Date: 2014-06-02 07:50:00 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:15 - ID:756042
Forty people were killed and dozens were injured after a bomb explosion hit the town of Mubi, northeast of Nigeria. The attack targeted football match field, said eyewitnesses. But local media reported that the bomb exploded near a military ....
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Kerry phones Palestine pres. ahead of new gov't formation
Date: 2014-06-02 07:32:35 GMT - palestine - International - SN:10 - ID:755998
US Secretary of State John Kerry phoned President Mahmoud Abbas late Sunday to discuss the newly formed Palestinian government and the future of peace talks in the Middle East. Abbas asserted that the new cabinet would be formed of technocrats ....
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Slovenia to hold early elections on July 13
Date: 2014-06-02 07:10:06 GMT - Slovenia - International - SN:8 - ID:755948
Slovenia's president has dissolved parliament and called early elections in the small EU nation for July 13, ABC News reported. Borut Pahor called the snap vote after Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek resigned last month after losing the leadership ....
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Hagel meets with team that helped rescue American soldier from Taliban
Date: 2014-06-02 06:37:33 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:3 - ID:755847
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met Sunday with more than a dozen members of the special operations team that participated in the rescue of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG'-dahl), an American soldier held by the Taliban. Hagel and the special ops ....
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Self-proclaimed Donetsk republic authorities not have info about 4 OSCE observers
Date: 2014-06-02 06:23:16 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:2 - ID:755846
Authorities of southeast Ukraine’s self-proclaimed Donetsk People ’s Republic do not have any information about whereabouts of four observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Co-chairman of Donetsk republican ....
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US official: Obama not to meet with Putin in G7 Summit in Brussels
Date: 2014-06-01 14:34:22 GMT - USA - International - SN:31 - ID:755177
US president Barack Obama will embark Monday on a five-day European tour to Poland, Belgium and France. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes said that the visit will focus on supporting the Ukrainian people and ....
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Iranian FM urges foreign powers to give up illusions on Syria
Date: 2014-06-01 13:04:19 GMT - Iran - International - SN:28 - ID:754996
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed the importance of the upcoming presidential election in Syria, and said the foreign powers should set aside illusions on the Syrian crisis and opt for political solutions, Fars news agency ....
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Netanyahu to int'l community: Don’t rush to recognize Palestinian unity government
Date: 2014-06-01 11:14:02 GMT - Israel - International - SN:22 - ID:754764
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged the international community not to sanction a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported. "I call on all responsible members of the international community not ....
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Boutros-Ghali presides over administrative council of Academy of International Law
Date: 2014-06-01 09:41:50 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:17 - ID:754573
The Administrative Council of The Hague Academy of International Law, under Boutros Boutros-Ghali, will convene on Tuesday in Paris. The two-day meeting will tackle organizing courses concerning public international law and private international ....
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Opposition leader Lebedko to run for Belarus president in 2015
Date: 2014-06-01 06:43:32 GMT - Belarus - International - SN:5 - ID:754178
The United Civil Party, one of Belarus' oldest opposition groups, on Saturday re-elected Anatoly Lebedko as its leader and elected him as the party's candidate for president of Belarus to run in next year's election, Interfax reported. The ....