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Myanmar orders Doctors without Borders to cease activities
Date: 2014-03-01 08:08:57 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - International - SN:15 - ID:582957
Myanmar's government has ordered Doctors without Borders to halt all of its work in the country. The order came after the humanitarian group treated Rohingya Muslims injured in communal violence, DW reported on Saturday. Doctors without Borders ....
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Nigeria, Israel sign MoU on agric cooperation
Date: 2014-03-01 07:36:01 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:13 - ID:582923
The Federal Government of Nigeria signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Israel on agricultural cooperation. Speaking at the signing ceremony in Abuja, Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Akinwuni Adesina said Nigeria ....
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Kiev asks UN to review situation in Ukraine
Date: 2014-03-01 07:31:49 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:11 - ID:582913
Ukraine has filed a request with the UN to review the highly explosive situation that has taken shape in the country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Deschitsa said Friday at a meeting with a group of foreign ambassadors. “I signed a letter to ....
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Ethiopia says 32% of work on Renaissance Dam done
Date: 2014-03-01 07:27:33 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:9 - ID:582904
The Ethiopian Electric Power said on Friday that the construction of Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam, Gibe III, Genale Dawa (GDIII) and other Wind Farm Power Generation projects is being accelerated to realize the Growth and Transformation Plan ....
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Kidnappers demand N500m ransom to free Nigerian president's uncle
Date: 2014-03-01 07:26:39 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:8 - ID:582903
Abductors of Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year old uncle of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded a N500m ransom. A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money, local ....
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3 European states move to block Yanukovych assets
Date: 2014-03-01 07:23:04 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:5 - ID:582893
Three Alpine nations moved Friday to block assets that Ukraine's fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and some of his associates might have stashed away there, and Swiss authorities opened a money-laundering investigation into Yanukovych and his ....
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US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford retires
Date: 2014-03-01 07:21:55 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:582897
The United States’ top representative to the Syrian opposition, Robert S. Ford, is planning to retire from the State Department and is expected to leave his post soon, New York Times quoted US state department officials as saying on Tuesday. The ....
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Yanukovych: I'm still Ukraine's President, will fight for its future
Date: 2014-02-28 17:20:22 GMT - Russia - International - SN:20 - ID:582549
Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych gave a defiant performance on Friday in Russia, as he insisted that he remained the country's legitimate elected leader and was not giving up yet, CNN reported. "I intend to continue the fight for the ....
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Russia pledges to respect Ukraine's unity: Kerry
Date: 2014-02-28 11:20:22 GMT - USA - International - SN:13 - ID:581755
US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Washington would be carefully monitoring a commitment by Moscow to respect Ukraine's territorial sovereignty, The Wall Street Journal reported. The secretary's ....
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Russia: NATO should not have any role in settling crisis in Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-28 11:16:12 GMT - Russia - International - SN:11 - ID:581741
NATO has no role and should not have any role in efforts to settle the crisis in Ukraine, Alexander Grushko, Russia's Permanent Representative at NATO told the Russian Itar-Tass at the close of a meeting of the Defence ministers of 28 NATO ....
