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Lenin statue toppled by protesters In Ukraine
Date: 2013-12-09 08:07:12 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:7 - ID:430136
Protesters in Ukraine have toppled a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Kiev and smashed it with hammers as hundreds of thousands flooded the capital, the BBC News reported. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Ukrainian ....
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Colombia's Farc announces unilateral ceasefire
Date: 2013-12-09 08:02:54 GMT - Colombia - International - SN:6 - ID:430118
Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc, has announced a 30-day-long ceasefire starting on 15 December, the BBC reported on Sunday. The announcement came a day after five soldiers, one police officer and three civilians were killed by a Farc car ....
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Dutch PM: Israel can learn from Mandela's legacy on peace
Date: 2013-12-09 08:01:07 GMT - palestine - International - SN:5 - ID:430117
Israel and the Palestinians can learn from South Africa's example and Nelson Mandela's legacy on how to achieve peace, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told President Shimon Peres on Sunday. "After Nelson Mandela's passing, we can learn from South ....
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Israel refuses usage of Dutch device at Kerm Abu Salem crossing
Date: 2013-12-08 13:02:28 GMT - palestine - International - SN:28 - ID:429089
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has canceled a gala ceremony planned for Sunday to inaugurate a new container scanner donated by the Netherlands to Israel’s border crossing with the Gaza Strip, due to Israel’s refusal to view the high-tech machine ....
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Mandela's jailer praises the anti-apartheid icon
Date: 2013-12-08 10:33:29 GMT - South Africa - International - SN:18 - ID:428762
Christo Brand, the jailer of the anti-apartheid icon, said he was very sad upon listening the news of Nelson Mandela's death, ABC News reported on Sunday. He was with Nelson Mandela during all those years the anti-apartheid icon was imprisoned on ....
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IFRC: 5 million people in Philippines lost their livelihoods
Date: 2013-12-08 09:29:00 GMT - Philippines - International - SN:14 - ID:428594
Patrick Fuller from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) societies said that nearly five million people in the Philippines have lost their livelihoods. "They've got no place to go to work. They've got no form of ....
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UN chief says corruption barrier to achieving Millennium goals
Date: 2013-12-08 08:59:12 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:13 - ID:428525
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said corruption is a barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and needs to be taken into account in defining and implementing a robust post-2015 development agenda. In a message on the occasion of ....
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Flora Coquerel crowned Miss France 2014
Date: 2013-12-08 08:55:27 GMT - France - International - SN:12 - ID:428516
Miss Orléanais, Flora Coquerel, has been crowned Miss France 2014. The pageant was held at Zenith in Dijon, Bourgogne. The jury chose Coquerel out of 33 contestants. The jury consisted of Québecois singer Garou (in the chair), Sylvie Vartan, ....
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Obama says Palestinian-Israeli negotiations could lead to two-state solution
Date: 2013-12-08 08:24:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:7 - ID:428437
US President Barack Obama stressed that the current Palestinian-Israeli negotiations have reached a point that could lead to the implementation of the two-state solution but still hard decisions are needed on both sides. Obama, while attending ....
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S. Korea to declare expanded air defense zone on Sunday: gov't
Date: 2013-12-08 08:19:57 GMT - south korea - International - SN:6 - ID:428430
The South Korean government said it plans to announce an expanded air defense zone on Sunday, amid a growing regional row following China's unilateral expansion of its own, Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. The Ministry of National Defense will ....
