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Iran appoints new envoy to IAEA
Date: 2013-08-25 11:39:39 GMT - Iran - International - SN:12 - ID:257305
Iran appointed Reza Najafi as its new envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday. Najafi replaced Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh who served as Iran's permanent representative at the UN nuclear watchdog for nearly a decade. ....
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Iran urges int’l community to act on to militant chemical attack in Syria
Date: 2013-08-25 10:47:20 GMT - Iran - International - SN:6 - ID:257208
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the international community to act on the use of chemical weapons by the foreign-backed terrorists in Syria, Iran's Press TV reported Sunday. “The international community must show a ....
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Israel, Washington discuss Syria, Lebanon conditions
Date: 2013-08-24 10:27:57 GMT - Israel - International - SN:15 - ID:255904
Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz discussed with his US counterpart Gen. Martin Dempsey the conditions in Lebanon and Syria. The two officials discussed the conditions in a phone call following the launch of four rockets toward north Israel ....
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Syria crisis: US weighs military options
Date: 2013-08-24 10:25:23 GMT - Malaysia - International - SN:13 - ID:255900
The Pentagon is moving forces closer to Syria as the US weighs its options in the conflict there, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has suggested during a visit here. He gave no details, but media reports say the US Navy is strengthening its ....
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UN Security Council condemns twin bombings in Tripoli
Date: 2013-08-24 10:12:52 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:10 - ID:255885
The UN Security Council strongly condemned Friday car bombings outside two mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, which killed 42 people and wounded hundreds. "The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the terrorist ....
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Security Council urges restraint, calls for humanitarian access in Jonglei
Date: 2013-08-24 10:00:56 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:7 - ID:255858
The Security Council strongly condemned Friday attacks on civilians and the looting of UN and other international aid organizations' facilities in South Sudan, and called on the Government to expedite safe and unhindered humanitarian access to the ....
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Iran's FM voices concern over situation in Egypt
Date: 2013-08-24 09:55:33 GMT - Iran - International - SN:6 - ID:255847
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced deep concern over the current situation in Egypt, and underlined the need for immediate tranquility in the Arab country, FARS news agency reported on Friday. “Every effort should be taken ....
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US expands presence in Mediterranean due to Syria
Date: 2013-08-24 09:31:50 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:255831
The US ordered its Navy to expand its presence in the Mediterranean with a fourth cruise-missile armed warship because of the escalating civil war in Syria. Al-Arabiya News Channel reported, without mentioning further details. ....
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Silvan Shalom appointed national infrastructures minister
Date: 2013-08-22 10:46:02 GMT - Israel - International - SN:9 - ID:253172
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Silvan Shalom as Minister of National Infrastructures, Israel Radio reported on Thursday. Former transportation minister Yisrael Katz said that Netanyahu was taking away some of his ....
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Liberman: Turkish PM Erdogan is Nazi propagandist Goebbels' successor
Date: 2013-08-22 09:41:52 GMT - Israel - International - SN:5 - ID:253035
Yisrael Beiteinu's member of Knesset (MK), Avigdor Lieberman, criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's charge that Israel was behind the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, saying that Erdogan's hateful and incitement-filled ....