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Three dead in first US drone strike in Pakistan since leaders met
Date: 2013-10-31 11:34:43 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:15 - ID:363970
Missiles fired by a US drone killed three people in Pakistan early on Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, the first such attack since Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked US President Barack Obama to end the campaign of drone ....
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French FM denies paying amounts to free French hostages
Date: 2013-10-31 09:37:58 GMT - France - International - SN:12 - ID:363680
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius denied paying any amount to release the French nationals, who were kidnapped three years ago. No amounts were paid to release the four Frenchmen kidnapped in Niger after being kidnapped for nearly 3 years, ....
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Obama only 2nd most powerful behind Putin - Forbes
Date: 2013-10-31 09:34:15 GMT - USA - International - SN:11 - ID:363669
US President Obama has fallen to second place in Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's most powerful people — trailing Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, The US Today reported Wednesday. Forbes began its analysis with the question "who's ....
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US slams Israel's new settlement plans
Date: 2013-10-31 08:39:02 GMT - USA - International - SN:7 - ID:363534
The US State Department said the US does not think continued settlement activity creates a positive environment for the revived peace talks. “We do not consider continued settlement activity or East Jerusalem construction to be steps that create ....
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Iran rejects preconditions to partake in Geneva II conf.
Date: 2013-10-31 07:40:07 GMT - Syria - International - SN:3 - ID:363428
Iran has rejected preconditions to partake in a planned Geneva peace conference on the Syrian crisis, Press TV reported on Thursday. "Have they set any preconditions for the participation of other parties who are among the serious supporters of ....
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Putin urges zero tolerance to corruption
Date: 2013-10-30 18:46:32 GMT - Russia - International - SN:67 - ID:363027
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that anti-corruption behavior should be adopted throughout society and criticized present anti-corruption legislation as too soft, Russia Today reported. Speaking at a session of the Anti-Corruption ....
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Abe pledges nuclear safety as Japan wins bid to build Turkish plant
Date: 2013-10-30 11:27:26 GMT - Japan - International - SN:43 - ID:362150
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Tuesday to boost Japan's efforts to ensure the safety of nuclear power as one of its firms jointly won an order to build a Turkish atomic power plant, the first such order for a Japanese company since the Fukushima ....
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Four French hostages freed in Niger
Date: 2013-10-30 10:12:42 GMT - Niger - International - SN:32 - ID:361915
Four French hostages kidnapped in Niger in 2010 have been released, the BBC quoted France's President Francois Hollande as saying. The men boarded a French government plane on Wednesday from Niger's capital Niamey. They are expected to be greeted ....
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7 missing in vessel collision on China sea
Date: 2013-10-30 10:08:42 GMT - China - International - SN:31 - ID:361908
At least seven people went missing after a Chinese fishing vessel collided with a freighter from the Republic of Korea on Bohai Strait near east China's Shandong Province, Yonhap reported quoting officials. The collision occurred at 3:40 am local ....
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Turkey, Japan sign formal agreement to build second nuclear plant in Sinop
Date: 2013-10-30 09:58:48 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:30 - ID:361872
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe signed Tuesday the official agreement for building Turkey's second nuclear plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop, Milliyet newspaper reported Wednesday. The two ....
