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  • Iran ready to promote peace in region - FM

    Iran ready to promote peace in region - FM

    Date: 2014-05-05 14:13:59 GMT - Iran - International - SN:62 - ID:704755

    Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has stressed the importance of promoting peace and stability in the region, saying that his country will spare no effort to this end, according to Press TV. Speaking at a joint press conference with ....

  • Sergei Lavrov to participate in Council of Europe session

    Sergei Lavrov to participate in Council of Europe session

    Date: 2014-05-05 14:12:50 GMT - Russia - International - SN:60 - ID:704752

    Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov will go to Austria’s capital Vienna on Monday to take part in the 124th ministerial session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Itar Tass reported according to Russia’s Ministry ....

  • 8 Senior Taliban leaders arrested in Takhar province

    8 Senior Taliban leaders arrested in Takhar province

    Date: 2014-05-05 12:42:06 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:49 - ID:704509

    At least eight senior Taliban leaders were arrested following a joint military operation by Afghan intelligence and Afghan police forces in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan. Afghan intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) ....

  • Boko Haram 'abducted Nigeria girls'

    Boko Haram 'abducted Nigeria girls'

    Date: 2014-05-05 11:38:17 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:41 - ID:704316

    Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in April, the BBC reported. In the pre-dawn hours of April 15, men dressed in Nigerian military uniforms showed up at Deborah’s school, in a ....

  • Russian Foreign Ministry: Council of Europe ‘must urge Kiev to comply with Geneva accord’

    Russian Foreign Ministry: Council of Europe ‘must urge Kiev to comply with Geneva accord’

    Date: 2014-05-05 11:37:07 GMT - Russia - International - SN:40 - ID:704312

    The Council of Europe must urge the present de-facto authorities in Kiev to unconditionally comply with the Geneva accord on de-escalation of tensions and work on a new Constitution, Itar-tass news agency reported quoting a statement released by the ....

  • IAEA inspectors in Tehran for talks

    IAEA inspectors in Tehran for talks

    Date: 2014-05-05 10:55:17 GMT - Iran - International - SN:37 - ID:704151

    A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is in Tehran to discuss with Iranian officials a safeguards approach for the country’s Arak heavy water plant in line with an agreement reached between Tehran and the IAEA, Press TV ....

  • Zarif, Brahimi discusses Syrian crisis' developments in telephone conversation

    Zarif, Brahimi discusses Syrian crisis' developments in telephone conversation

    Date: 2014-05-05 10:53:41 GMT - Iran - International - SN:36 - ID:704143

    Iran's foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi discussed over the phone on Monday the developments of the Syrian crisis. The two sides underlined the need for a political solution to the Syrian crisis, Fars news ....

  • At least 19 dead, 130 injured in India train accident

    At least 19 dead, 130 injured in India train accident

    Date: 2014-05-05 10:51:05 GMT - India - International - SN:33 - ID:704132

    A passenger train has derailed in western India, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 130 others, ABC reported Monday. The train's engine and four of its carriages jumped the tracks in Raigad district in the western state of ....

  • 50 Taliban militants killed, 36 others injured in Ghazni operations

    50 Taliban militants killed, 36 others injured in Ghazni operations

    Date: 2014-05-05 10:42:18 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:28 - ID:704097

    At least 50 Taliban militants were killed and 36 others were injured following military operations in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, Khama newspaper reported. The interior ministry of Afghanistan following a statement said the militants ....

  • Iran, P5+1 experts set to resume talks in New York

    Iran, P5+1 experts set to resume talks in New York

    Date: 2014-05-05 10:00:25 GMT - Iran - International - SN:27 - ID:703999

    Iran and the P5+1 group are set to resume expert-level talks on Tehran’s nuclear energy program in New York, Press TV quoted an Iranian official as saying. Experts from Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the United ....

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