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Iran, EU underline enhancement of int'l efforts to settle Syrian crisis
Date: 2014-03-10 11:58:05 GMT - Iran - International - SN:48 - ID:600981
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton extended their full support to diplomatic efforts to end the nearly 3-year-long bloodshed in Syria, Fars reported Monday. “The Islamic Republic ....
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North Korea's Kim Jong-un elected to assembly without single vote agains
Date: 2014-03-10 09:30:34 GMT - North Korea - International - SN:31 - ID:600530
North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un was elected to the highest legislative body without a single dissenting vote against in his district on a 100% turnout, Yonhap reported. North Koreans went to the polls on Sunday to approve the new roster ....
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Report ranks Nigeria with lowest respect for rule of law
Date: 2014-03-10 09:29:29 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:30 - ID:600527
Nigeria has been ranked as one of the countries with the lowest respect for the rule of law in the world. The World Justice Project (WJP) in its 2014 Rule of Law Index ranked 99 countries out of which Nigeria placed 93 close to war ravaged ....
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Park expresses regret, orders thorough probe into fake evidence scandal
Date: 2014-03-10 09:28:37 GMT - south korea - International - SN:23 - ID:600462
President Park Geun-hye expressed regret and ordered a thorough investigation Monday into allegations that the state intelligence agency was involved in fabricating evidence used in charging a North Korean defector with espionage, Yonhap news agency ....
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Afghan Taliban order fighters to disrupt vote
Date: 2014-03-10 09:15:40 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:28 - ID:600492
A Taliban spokesman says the group has warned Afghans not to take part in the April presidential election and that it has ordered its fighters to disrupt the vote, ABC News reported Monday. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says the Taliban are also ....
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Xi urges political solution to Ukraine crisis
Date: 2014-03-10 09:01:15 GMT - China - International - SN:21 - ID:600442
Chinese president Xi Jinping has urged a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine and for all parties to exercise calm and restraint, during separate telephone calls with US president Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel, The Guardian ....
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Obama aide sees Russian threat on arms inspections as 'serious'
Date: 2014-03-10 08:53:58 GMT - USA - International - SN:17 - ID:600422
Tony Blinken, President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, said Sunday that a Russian threat to cease inspections of nuclear weapons as required by US-Russian arms control treaties would be "a serious development." Blinken said on ....
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Ethiopia says Israel offers to mediate in controversial dam row
Date: 2014-03-10 08:48:37 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:16 - ID:600412
An Ethiopian diplomat has welcomed an Israeli offer to mediate between Ethiopia and Egypt over the controversial Renaissance Dam, local media reported. "Any country like Israel may raise such idea and Ethiopia appreciates this,” said Jemal Beker, ....
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Biden says Venezuela situation is alarming
Date: 2014-03-10 08:41:22 GMT - USA - International - SN:13 - ID:600388
US Vice President Joe Biden has said that Venezuela's political and social situation is alarming, ABC News reported. In an interview published Sunday with Chile's El Mercurio newspaper, Biden also accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of ....
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Unknown man opens machine-gun fire in Ukraine causing casualties
Date: 2014-03-10 08:39:49 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:12 - ID:600386
An unknown man opened fire from a machine-gun in Kharkov on Sunday, the Kharkov police press-service reported. According to The Voice of Russia, the police are investigating the information and will provide details later. The City Prosecutor’s ....
