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At least 5 people are dead in suicide bombing in Nigeria's Kano city
Date: 2014-05-19 07:04:35 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:17 - ID:729525
At least five people were killed in a suicide bombing that hit Kano city late Sunday, in a street with many bars and night spots. The blast took place in an area mostly inhabited by Christians from southern Nigeria, the Punch newspaper ....
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Park says she’ll disband coast guard in ferry-sinking apology
Date: 2014-05-19 07:02:41 GMT - south korea - International - SN:16 - ID:729520
South Korean President Park Geun Hye apologized to the nation over the deadly sinking of a passenger ferry that left 300 people dead or missing and said she’ll disband the coast guard for its botched rescue operation, Sky news reported. “The ....
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Rouhani: Iraq's elections sign of institutionalized democracy
Date: 2014-05-19 07:00:15 GMT - Iran - International - SN:15 - ID:729514
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a meeting with Iraqi Judiciary Chief Medhat Al-Mahmoud extended Tehran's full support for the new government in the country, and said the recent parliamentary elections indicated institutionalized democracy in ....
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31 children die in Colombia bus fire
Date: 2014-05-19 06:58:29 GMT - Colombia - International - SN:14 - ID:729510
Thirty-one children and one adult were killed in Colombia when fuel exploded on a broken-down bus returning from a church event, The Guardian reported on its website. The charred bodies of victims were being identified using dental records in ....
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CIA denies its agents were killed in eastern Ukraine
Date: 2014-05-19 06:34:33 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:729466
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has denied reports of a number of CIA agents allegedly killed in clashes between forces loyal to the Kiev authorities and self-defense units in eastern Ukraine, The Voice of Russia reported. Earlier, the ....
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'France welcomes Iran peace plan for Syria'
Date: 2014-05-19 06:24:28 GMT - Iran - International - SN:2 - ID:729452
A senior French diplomat has described Iran’s four-point peace plan for Syria as useful and conducive to the settlement of the crisis in the Arab state, Press TV reported. Jean-François Girault, French Foreign Ministry’s director for North Africa ....
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West seeks crackdown on Boko Haram, says paper
Date: 2014-05-18 11:46:19 GMT - USA - International - SN:31 - ID:728293
Western powers are pressing the United Nations to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organization as early as next week, senior U.S. officials said Saturday, in an effort to turn up pressure on the insurgent group behind the kidnapping of hundreds of ....
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Iranian FM raises hopes for deal with world powers
Date: 2014-05-18 10:48:36 GMT - Iran - International - SN:27 - ID:728159
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who leads the country's team in the nuclear talks with the world powers, announced that striking a final deal between the two sides is possible, Fars news agency reported. "A comprehensive nuclear ....
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Israel, US holding joint missile defense drill
Date: 2014-05-18 09:47:26 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:23 - ID:727992
Israel and the United States were slated to hold a joint missile defense drill on Sunday morning. The biennial exercise is designed to test the ability of joint operations between the two nations in response to missile attacks, The Jerusalem Post ....
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Jewish Home criticizes Livni over Abbas meeting
Date: 2014-05-18 08:13:34 GMT - Israel - International - SN:11 - ID:727657
Sources in the right-wing Jewish Home party called on Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to quit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Saturday night, saying that her meeting Thursday in London with Palestinian Authority President ....
