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UN chief condemns abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
Date: 2014-04-16 18:14:56 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:74 - ID:672252
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemned Wednesday the shocking mass abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria this week. Ban called for the immediate release of allhe girls abducted and their safe return to ....
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Russian stance on Ukraine reasonable - Kremlin spokesman
Date: 2014-04-16 18:14:13 GMT - Russia - International - SN:73 - ID:672251
Russia's stance on Ukraine is very consistent and well-founded, but it comes across a rude stone wall of Western censorship, Russian presidential press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. He said that that people in the West are ....
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Iran's missile capabilities no subject for nuclear talks - Minister
Date: 2014-04-16 15:33:08 GMT - Iran - International - SN:67 - ID:672031
Iranian Defense Minister General Hossein Dehqan underlined that the country's defense capabilities, including its ballistic missiles, will never be included in the nuclear negotiations with the world powers, FARS News Agency reported. "Our ....
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US visa denial to Iran’s UN proposed envoy against int’l laws - MP
Date: 2014-04-16 13:42:45 GMT - Iran - International - SN:58 - ID:671781
A member of Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said here on Wednesday that the US visa denial to Iran’s proposed ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Aboutalebi is a clear violation of international law. Talking ....
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Iranian president reiterates possibility of Iran-Sextet final nuclear deal
Date: 2014-04-16 13:05:59 GMT - Iran - International - SN:51 - ID:671675
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the road to a final, comprehensive deal between Iran and world powers on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program is fraught with difficulties, but at the same time noted that the deal would be possible within a ....
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Five dead after stabbing at student party in Canada
Date: 2014-04-16 11:23:05 GMT - Canada - International - SN:40 - ID:671343
Five people were killed and a suspect taken into custody after multiple stabbings at a house party attended by university students near the University of Calgary, the BBC reported quoting the police chief, calling it the worst mass murder in ....
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Edogan in talks over coming presidential polls
Date: 2014-04-16 09:21:00 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:28 - ID:670974
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chaired on Wednesday a meeting of lawmakers of the ruling Justice and Development Party to choose candidates for the coming presidential polls, to take place in August. The meeting aims at reaching an agreement ....
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Ferry with 350 passengers sinking off South Korea
Date: 2014-04-16 09:03:47 GMT - south korea - International - SN:27 - ID:670929
A passenger ship carrying more than 470 people, mostly high school students, sank off South Korea's southern coast on Wednesday, leaving at least two people, including one student, dead and about 290 others missing, Yonhap reported. The ....
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Sound bomb explodes in central Istanbul
Date: 2014-04-16 09:02:46 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:26 - ID:670921
Unidentified men threw a sound bomb outside an apartment building in central Istanbul on Wednesday, causing damage to the building and nearby shops, NTV news channel reported. Police searched many suspected houses in a bid to find the attackers. ....
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Putin: Escalating conflict puts Ukraine on 'brink of civil war'
Date: 2014-04-16 09:01:17 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:25 - ID:670916
The escalating conflict in Ukraine "essentially puts the nation on the brink of civil war," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, CNN reported. His assessment came during a telephone conversation with his German counterpart, ....