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National Bank: Situation on Ukraine's currency market under control
Date: 2014-02-07 10:14:35 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:6 - ID:541937
The situation on Ukraine's currency market remains under control, head of the advisers group to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valery Litvitsky told a news conference on Thursday, the ITAR-TASS reported. "Situational factors, first ....
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Kerry tells Iran that existing sanctions will stay in place as nuclear negotiations continue
Date: 2014-02-06 07:54:13 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:540036
Secretary of State John F. Kerry told Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday that the United States will continue to enforce existing sanctions on Iran while bargaining over a deal to rein in Iran’s disputed nuclear program. The top ....
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Rouhani meets new OIC chief
Date: 2014-02-05 12:15:22 GMT - Iran - International - SN:39 - ID:538842
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on Wednesday with newly-appointed Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Madani, Fars news agency reported. The two sides took up the Palestinian issue and the Syrian ....
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US condemns Aleppo barrel bomb raids
Date: 2014-02-05 08:48:16 GMT - USA - International - SN:17 - ID:538298
US Secretary of State John Kerry has condemned the use of barrel bombs in the Syrian city of Aleppo by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, the BBC reported. Kerry said it was the "latest barbaric act of the Syrian regime". Aleppo has ....
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Dozens killed in fresh violence wave in central Nigeria
Date: 2014-02-05 08:26:05 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:14 - ID:538242
About thirty Nigerians were killed and others injured in attacks on two christatin villages in a new wave of violence that hit central Nigeria on Tuesday. Witnesses said gunmen believed to be from the Muslim tribe of Fulani attacked the villages, ....
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Blast near Peshawar hotel kills 9 in Pakistan
Date: 2014-02-05 08:23:42 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:13 - ID:538239
Nine people were killed and 50 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a local hotel frequented mostly by Shias in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The incident took place at Pak Hotel near ....
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Cameron phoned Putin to discuss Syrian conflict, Iran's nuclear program
Date: 2014-02-05 07:50:30 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:7 - ID:538170
UK Prime Minister David Cameron phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to discuss a range of bilateral and global issues, a Downing Street spokesperson said. This was their first call in 2014 and discussions focused on P5+1 co-operation ....
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Peres defends US handling of peace effors, commitment to Israel
Date: 2014-02-04 18:44:53 GMT - Israel - International - SN:66 - ID:537801
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday defended the US handling of peace efforts and its commitment to Israel, in a veiled criticism of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s recent withering critique of US Secretary of State John Kerry. At a ....
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At least 13 killed as train crashes into taxi bus in Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-04 18:14:20 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:64 - ID:537767
At least thirteen people have died and seven others were injured when a commuter train slammed into a shuttle bus in Sumy province in the northeastern part of the Ukraine, the Voice of Russian reported Tuesday. "The shuttle bus ignored the ....
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Putin signs law on military police
Date: 2014-02-04 17:54:35 GMT - Russia - International - SN:61 - ID:537707
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on military police, approved by the State Duma lower house on January 24 and by the Federation Council upper house on January 29, Itar Tass reported Tuesday. The document makes amendments to the ....
