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  • Zarif arrives in Pakistan for D-8 meeting

    Zarif arrives in Pakistan for D-8 meeting

    Date: 2013-12-19 08:46:16 GMT - Iran - International - SN:2 - ID:449952

    Heading a political-parliamentary delegation, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Pakistani capital Islamabad early Thursday to participate in and deliver a speech to the 16th Session of the D-8 Council of Ministers ....

  • US puts Qaeda-affiliated group on list of terrorist organizations

    US puts Qaeda-affiliated group on list of terrorist organizations

    Date: 2013-12-18 18:16:10 GMT - USA - International - SN:79 - ID:449343

    The United States has put Osama al-Shehabi, a member of Fatah Al-Islam movement, on the list of most-wanted terrorists in the world, SKY News Arabia reported Wednesday. It also placed Al-Mulathamoun (masked men) battalion, which is hailed from ....

  • Bachmann urges Washington to follow Egyptian decision considering MB terrorist organization

    Bachmann urges Washington to follow Egyptian decision considering MB terrorist organization

    Date: 2013-12-18 16:13:47 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:65 - ID:449105

    A member of the US Congress has stressed the need for Washington to act according to an Egyptian decision labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. "If the decision of the interim government of Egypt is to consider the ....

  • US sending $25M in new typhoon aid to Philippines

    US sending $25M in new typhoon aid to Philippines

    Date: 2013-12-18 11:15:01 GMT - Philippines - International - SN:41 - ID:448359

    The United States is providing nearly $25 million in additional humanitarian aid to help the Philippines deal with the enormous devastation and deaths wrought by Typhoon Haiyan last month, ABC reported quoting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said ....

  • Seoul summons Japanese envoy over renewed claims to Dokdo

    Seoul summons Japanese envoy over renewed claims to Dokdo

    Date: 2013-12-18 10:51:10 GMT - south korea - International - SN:32 - ID:448278

    South Korea summoned the vice chief of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul Wednesday to lodge a complaint against Tokyo's renewed territorial claims to Seoul's easternmost islets of Dokdo, Yonhap news agency reported. Takashi Kurai, the deputy chief of ....

  • Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs dies aged 84

    Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs dies aged 84

    Date: 2013-12-18 10:48:30 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:30 - ID:448265

    British criminal Ronnie Biggs, who took part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery, has died aged 84, the BBC reported Wednesday. Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train on 8 August 1963. He was ....

  • Talks between Iran, Spain to promote bilateral relations

    Talks between Iran, Spain to promote bilateral relations

    Date: 2013-12-18 10:42:58 GMT - Iran - International - SN:28 - ID:448243

    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Europe and America Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi held talks in Tehran with Spanish Foreign Ministry Director General for Africa and Mediterranean Affairs Maneul Gomez. The two sides focused on ways to promote ....

  • Zarif: Iran to seriously pursue rights of nation

    Zarif: Iran to seriously pursue rights of nation

    Date: 2013-12-18 10:42:02 GMT - Iran - International - SN:27 - ID:448240

    Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that the team of negotiators will seriously follow up the rights of Iranian nation, IRNA reported. “We will follow up the interests of people with the language of dignity, logic and the literature ....

  • Europe sets condition of equal treatment to exempt Saudis from Schengen visa

    Europe sets condition of equal treatment to exempt Saudis from Schengen visa

    Date: 2013-12-18 10:40:37 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - International - SN:26 - ID:448237

    The European Union has set a condition of same treatment to exempt the Saudi nationals from getting the EU-Schengen visa following the example of a number of Gulf states which allowed European nationals to enter without getting visas. In ....

  • Brazil is not considering asylum for Snowden

    Brazil is not considering asylum for Snowden

    Date: 2013-12-18 10:36:24 GMT - Brazil - International - SN:24 - ID:448222

    Brazil has said it is not considering granting asylum to the fugitive former US security analyst Edward Snowden despite his offering to help investigate revelations that the NSA spied on their president, euronews reported Wednesday. Snowden made ....

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