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Ninth MP quits over Turkish graft scandal
Date: 2014-02-08 07:33:51 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:9 - ID:543163
A Turkish Parliament Member from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party quit on Friday in protest at his handling of a major corruption probe, the ninth such departure since the scandal broke in December, local Turkish media reported. ....
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Hijacking of Turkish aircraft to Sochi foiled
Date: 2014-02-08 07:30:13 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:7 - ID:543153
A passenger aboard a commercial airline flight from Ukraine to Turkey tried to hijack it to Sochi, Russia, on Friday after the Winter Olympics had started, but the plane landed safely in Istanbul and the hijacker - apparently deluded by the crew ....
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Mass hunger strike under way in Georgian prison
Date: 2014-02-08 07:26:17 GMT - Georgia - International - SN:6 - ID:543145
Some 1,000 inmates in a penitentiary in Georgia's western Imereti Province have launched a hunger strike, protesting what they call abusive prison conditions, The Voice of Russia reported Wednesday. Georgia's minister of correctional ....
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Joe Biden: No reason not to run for president in 2016
Date: 2014-02-08 07:21:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:543135
US Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that he cannot think of a reason to not run for president in 2016, but one way or another, he will decide by summer 2015 whether to wage another campaign for the White House. “There may be reasons I don’t ....
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US to deal with any one picked by Egyptian people: outgoing consul
Date: 2014-02-07 11:16:19 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:11 - ID:542041
The US will deal with any candidate picked up by the Egyptian people whatever his name, said outgoing US consul in Alexandria Candace Putnam. Candace was answering a question on the possibility of nomination of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ....
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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, ....
