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Obama heads to South Africa to attend Mandela's funeral
Date: 2013-12-09 17:38:08 GMT - USA - International - SN:64 - ID:431468
US President Barack Obama left Washington for Johannesburg on Monday morning to attend the memorial service for Mandela, which will take place Tuesday in the city's soccer stadium. In addition to Obama, former presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. ....
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Liberman meets Kerry in DC to discuss Mideast issues
Date: 2013-12-09 13:13:02 GMT - Israel - International - SN:56 - ID:430936
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman met with US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss issues related to the Middle East. During the hour-long meeting in Washington, the two spoke, among other issues, about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian ....
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Lieberman in Moscow to discuss Middle East issues and establishing free trade area
Date: 2013-12-09 12:57:00 GMT - Russia - International - SN:49 - ID:430896
Foreign ministers of Russia and Israel Sergei Lavrov and Avigdor Lieberman met on Monday in Moscow to discuss bilateral relations and the Middle East issues including Syrian crisis, Iranian nuclear program and Palestinian-Israeli ....
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Putin signs decree establishing RT news agency instead of RIA Novosti
Date: 2013-12-09 12:23:41 GMT - Russia - International - SN:47 - ID:430798
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Monday a decree to liquidate RIA Novosti news agency and establish Russia Today news agency on its base. The changes were about saving money and making state media more effective. All property and assets ....
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Iran, 5+1 group start talks at IAEA premises
Date: 2013-12-09 11:20:24 GMT - Austria - International - SN:36 - ID:430632
Iran's delegation has started talks with representatives of the western powers of (5+1) group at the premises of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in an in-camera session. Media representatives were not allowed to await outside the ....
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US envoy to Israel: No link between Iran nuke issue, Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Date: 2013-12-09 11:02:40 GMT - Israel - International - SN:32 - ID:430582
US Ambassador to Israel contradicts the Israeli prime minister's remarks that a nuclear Iran would harm any future agreement with the Palestinians; "There is no connection between these two issues," US Ambassador to Israeli Dan Shapiro said in ....
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Thousands of Thai protesters vowed to continue demons
Date: 2013-12-09 10:29:09 GMT - Thailand - International - SN:31 - ID:430478
More than 100,000 Thai protesters vowed to continue demonstrations near the office of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra till the elections are held in early February, BBC reported Monday. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has dissolved ....
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N. Korea confirms purge of leader's powerful uncle for involvement in activities against revolution
Date: 2013-12-09 10:13:51 GMT - North Korea - International - SN:29 - ID:430426
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's powerful uncle has been dismissed Monday from all posts for trying to form his own faction within the ruling party accused of irregularities and corruption, as well as disobeying Kim's orders, Pyongyang's state ....
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US defense minister arrives in Pakistan
Date: 2013-12-09 09:40:43 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:25 - ID:430337
The US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has arrived in Pakistan on Monday for talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the BBC reported. It is the first visit by a US defense secretary to Islamabad in four years. The Pentagon said the ....
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New translation of Quran in Russia
Date: 2013-12-09 09:00:42 GMT - Russia - International - SN:19 - ID:430250
The Council of Muftis of Russia has proposed to release a new Russian translation of the Quran two months after one of the most widely read translations of the holy book was banned, The Moscow Times reported. Rushan Abbyasov, the deputy head of ....
