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Pakistan air strikes 'kill 32' militants
Date: 2014-05-21 07:18:01 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:19 - ID:733714
Pakistan air strikes kill at least 32 militants in North Waziristan including "important commanders", officials say BBC reported on Wednesday. What were described as precision air strikes hit targets near to the border with ....
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Taliban attack kills 6 police officers in Afghanistan
Date: 2014-05-21 07:13:26 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:17 - ID:733701
An Afghan official says a Taliban attack on several police checkpoints in the country's northeast has killed six officers, Fox News Channel reported on Wednesday. Gen. Fazeluddin Ayar, the police chief in Badakhshan province, said Wednesday that ....
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UN Security Council Condemns Deadly Fighting in Mali
Date: 2014-05-21 07:11:41 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:16 - ID:733700
The United Nations Security Council has "strongly condemned" deadly fighting in northern Mali between government forces and separatists. At least 36 people were killed in clashes after troops were sent in to respond to Tuareg rebels who attacked ....
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Nigeria asks UN al-Qaeda committee to blacklist Boko Haram
Date: 2014-05-21 06:46:24 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:9 - ID:733654
Nigeria has formally asked the UN Security Council al-Qaeda sanctions committee to blacklist the Islamist militant group Boko Haram after the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls, the Voice of Russia cited UN diplomats as saying on Tuesday. ....
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Russia would veto referral of Syria to criminal court
Date: 2014-05-20 17:16:24 GMT - Russia - International - SN:69 - ID:733072
Russia will veto a draft United Nations resolution to refer the civil war in Syria to the International Criminal Court if it comes to a vote in the Security Council, Interfax quoted a Russian official as saying Tuesday. France circulated a draft ....
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Bomb blast rocks central Nigeria
Date: 2014-05-20 17:11:55 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:60 - ID:733006
A bomb blast rocked a crowded area central Nigeria on Tuesday amid reports of a large number of casualties. Eye-witnesses and news reports said the blast was at Ahmadu Bello Road, in Jos the capital city of Plateau State. The city of Jos was ....
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20 Taliban militants killed in various operations in Afghanistan
Date: 2014-05-20 14:11:50 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:45 - ID:732787
At least 20 Taliban militants were killed in various military operations conducted by Afghan national security forces in the past 24 hours, Khaama Press reported Tuesday. Defense ministry spokesman, Gen. Zahir Azimi said Afghan national army ....
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UN: 10,000 people displaced in Ukraine since crisis
Date: 2014-05-20 12:34:40 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:34 - ID:732554
The UN refugee agency on Tuesday said that the tension in Ukraine had displaced an estimated 10,000 civilians and added that the number of people affected was continuing to rise, said a statement on Tuesday. "A needs assessment has recently been ....
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Medvedev: Russia not obliged to guarantee Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty
Date: 2014-05-20 12:19:34 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:30 - ID:732508
Russia is not obligated to guarantee the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine because it never took on that obligation, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti news agency. “We are not obliged to guarantee ....
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5 dead, 45 wounded in train collision near Moscow
Date: 2014-05-20 12:13:00 GMT - Russia - International - SN:29 - ID:732488
A collision Tuesday between a cargo train and a passenger train near Moscow killed at least five people and left at least 45 others injured, ABC News quoted Russian officials as saying. The Interior Ministry said the accident happened when ....
