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French FM to visit US Sunday
Date: 2014-05-09 19:16:15 GMT - France - International - SN:40 - ID:712532
French Foreign Ministry Laurent Fabius is scheduled to pay a three-day visit to the US on Sunday. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said Friday Fabius will start his visit by Chicago, where he will focus on the French investors' ....
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WHO to hold extraordinary meeting on MERS Virus
Date: 2014-05-09 19:02:32 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:30 - ID:712511
The World Health Organization announced holding an emergency meeting on Tuesday on the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to discuss means of addressing the viral infections. The UN health agency will host the ....
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21 people reported killed in fighting in Ukraine
Date: 2014-05-09 15:48:32 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:24 - ID:712339
Twenty-one people have died after Ukrainian government forces attacked the police headquarters in the south-eastern port city of Mariupol in an attempt to drive out pro-Russia militants who had seized the building, The Guardian quoted the Ukrainian ....
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Taliban attack on Afghan police outpost wounds 11
Date: 2014-05-09 14:31:29 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:23 - ID:712240
More than 100 Taliban fighters staged a large-scale attack Friday on a remote police checkpoint in western Afghanistan, wounding 11 police officers, ABC News quoted Afghan authorities as saying. The attack on the outpost in Bala Boluk district ....
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Settlements delegitimize Israel on int'l stage- Livni
Date: 2014-05-09 14:16:16 GMT - Israel - International - SN:19 - ID:712205
Israeli Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) condemned the settlements in undermining Israel and contributing to "the delegitimization of Israel in the eyes of the world", The Jerusalem Post reported. "They want to prevent ....
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Putin arrives in Crimea for WWII commemoration
Date: 2014-05-09 13:45:34 GMT - Russia - International - SN:15 - ID:712160
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Crimea for a military parade in the historic port city of Sevastopol commemorating victory over Nazi forces in World War II, RTE reported on Friday. It comes after thousands of Russian troops ....
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Abu Hamza trial: London was rife with Islamic militancy in 1990s, claims cleric
Date: 2014-05-09 11:09:12 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:14 - ID:711784
Abu Hamza, the former imam of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, who is on trial in New York on terror charges, has testified that he lost an eye and both hands in 1993 assisting the Pakistani army to experiment with liquid explosives at a ....
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Ban to dispatch high-level representative to Nigeria
Date: 2014-05-09 08:49:30 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:5 - ID:711539
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would send a high-level representative to Nigeria to discuss how the UN could support the Nigerian government's efforts to tackle insurgency and crisis of abducting school girls, the UN reported on ....
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Obama appoints Robert Beecroft as new US envoy to Egypt
Date: 2014-05-09 08:48:32 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:711534
US President Barack Obama has decided on Thursday to appoint US ambassador in Iraq as new US envoy in Cairo. Robert Stephen Beecroft, a longtime diplomat who has been the US ambassador in Baghdad since 2012, would replace Anne Patterson, who left ....
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Ukraine deploys 15,000-strong military force near Russia’s borders – Russian official
Date: 2014-05-08 13:28:46 GMT - Russia - International - SN:20 - ID:710538
Ukraine has deployed a 15,000-strong military force near Russia’s borders, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov was quoted by the ITAR-TASS News Agency as saying. “The 15,000-strong grouping of Ukrainian forces has been deployed in the ....
