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  • Afghan Taliban order fighters to disrupt vote

    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 ....

  • Xi urges political solution to Ukraine crisis

    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 ....

  • Obama aide sees Russian threat on arms inspections as 'serious'

    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 ....

  • Ethiopia says Israel offers to mediate in controversial dam row

    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, ....

  • Biden says Venezuela situation is alarming

    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 ....

  • Unknown man opens machine-gun fire in Ukraine causing casualties

    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 ....

  • Cameron urges Putin do more to reduce Ukraine tensions

    Cameron urges Putin do more to reduce Ukraine tensions

    Date: 2014-03-10 08:22:47 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:11 - ID:600354

    British Prime Minister David Cameron has told Vladimir Putin he must do more to reduce tensions in Ukraine as he called on the Russian president to agree to the creation of a contact group that could lead to direct talks between Kiev and Moscow, The ....

  • Vietnamese officials say airplane debris found in South China Sea -- report

    Vietnamese officials say airplane debris found in South China Sea -- report

    Date: 2014-03-10 07:56:57 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:600297

    Vietnamese officials claimed to have found fragments of an inner door and part of the tail from what might be the missing Malaysia Airlines jet in the South China Sea, Time Magazine reported Sunday. The news came as the Malaysian air force said ....

  • Netanyahu: Iran brazenly lying about Klos C

    Netanyahu: Iran brazenly lying about Klos C

    Date: 2014-03-09 13:25:40 GMT - Israel - International - SN:33 - ID:599184

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Iran denies its involvement in the matter of Israeli capture of "Klos c" ship that was carrying arms towards the Israeli port of Eilat. Yediot Aharonot quoted Netanyahu as saying ....

  • Iran's Zarif, EU's Ashton meet on ties

    Iran's Zarif, EU's Ashton meet on ties

    Date: 2014-03-09 12:26:13 GMT - Iran - International - SN:30 - ID:599017

    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, in a meeting in Tehran this morning, conferred on the latest developments in regional and international arenas, and also discussed ways to ....

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