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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, ....
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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 ....
