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US spying agency targets included allies, aid groups and business elite -- Report
Date: 2013-12-21 09:02:31 GMT - USA - International - SN:19 - ID:453281
Secret documents have revealed more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies and a European Union ....
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China says FM visits to Israel, Palestinian territories achieved goals
Date: 2013-12-21 08:02:24 GMT - China - International - SN:18 - ID:453137
China has said visits by its foreign minister to Israel and the Palestinian territories helped entrench the "traditional friendship" with both sides. Goals of the visits have been accomplished, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a ....
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Chinese firm pulls workers out of South Sudan oilfields after attack
Date: 2013-12-21 07:59:31 GMT - China - International - SN:17 - ID:453133
Chinese state oil company CNPC said it was evacuating workers from South Sudan because of political violence that has left hundreds dead, South China Morning Post reported Saturday. "We are arranging the orderly evacuation of our workers, but I ....
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Italy's Letta survives confidence vote on budget
Date: 2013-12-21 07:33:56 GMT - Italy - International - SN:14 - ID:453088
Italian Premier Enrico Letta's government has survived a confidence vote in Parliament's lower chamber tied to next year's budget, local media reported Friday. The Chamber of Deputies voted 350-196 with one abstention Friday to pass the budget ....
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Kerry sends envoy to South Sudan as violence grows
Date: 2013-12-21 07:29:29 GMT - USA - International - SN:12 - ID:453083
US Secretary of State John Kerry is sending a special envoy to South Sudan following an escalation of violence in the world's newest nation, CNN said Saturday. "Now is the time for South Sudan's leaders to rein in armed groups under their ....
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Netanyahu swapped tour of China for testimony on terror-financing - paper
Date: 2013-12-21 07:23:40 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:453071
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have abandoned an attempt to block Hamas and Islamic Jihad finances for a family trip to China, the World Tribune cited a court document in the US. "An affidavit filed in a US federal district ....
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Fresh violence kills at least 29 in C.Africa: Red Cross
Date: 2013-12-21 07:09:31 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:5 - ID:453054
The Red Cross in the Central African Republic said Friday that at least 29 have been killed in a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence in Bangui, the Euronews reported. . Christian militia attacked Muslim neighbourhoods in the capital of the ....
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Second British evacuation plane leaves S. Sudan
Date: 2013-12-21 07:02:29 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:2 - ID:453038
The British Foreign Office said Friday that the United Kingdom sent a second flight to evacuate its nationals from South Sudan amid spiralling violence in the fledgling nation. The Royal Air Force C-17 military transport plane evacuated 93 people ....
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Russian military to decide on Iskander missiles deployment at Kaliningrad – FM
Date: 2013-12-20 18:36:29 GMT - Russia - International - SN:46 - ID:452772
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday a decision to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad province in the border region with Western Europe will be made only by the Ministry of Defense. "We told our American partners that Iskander ....
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Ukrainian-Russian agreements aim at stabilizing trade, economic relations - official
Date: 2013-12-20 17:18:05 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:39 - ID:452664
Ukrainian secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) Andrei Klyuyev asserted Friday that the fourteen agreements signed by Ukraine and Russia on December 17 were designed to stabilize trade and economic relations between both ....
