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Czech foreign ministry recommends Czechs not to travel to Egypt
Date: 2013-08-17 09:58:56 GMT - Czech - International - SN:12 - ID:245528
The Czech Foreign Ministry has advised its nationals not to travel to Egypt, not even to Red Sea tourist resorts, over the worsening security situation all over the country, ministry spokeswoman Johana Grohova told Czech News Agency. The ....
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Obama invites Nigerian president to visit US
Date: 2013-08-15 11:00:30 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:9 - ID:242467
US President Barack Obama invited his Nigerian counterpart Goodluck Jonathan to visit the United States to discuss boosting bilateral relations In statements on Thursday, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs said all was set for ....
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Hand grenade attacks kill 2, wound 30 in Pakistan prayer houses
Date: 2013-08-14 10:36:34 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:10 - ID:240610
Pakistani police said Tuesday a pair of hand grenade attacks on minority Ismaili prayer houses in southern Pakistan have killed two people and wounded 30 others, Fox News reported. Police officer Amir Farooqi said the attacks occurred 30 ....
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Indian Police hunt attacker of 7-year-old
Date: 2013-08-14 10:20:33 GMT - India - International - SN:8 - ID:240579
Indian police said Tuesday that they exert strenuous efforts to hunt a man who raped a 7-year-old girl in a train's toilet compartment in central India over the weekend, CNN reported. The incident comes amid widespread outrage in recent months ....
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Regional threats minimal compared to nuclear Iran- Netanyahu
Date: 2013-08-14 09:57:22 GMT - Israel - International - SN:4 - ID:240524
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the many threats in the region are minimal compared to the threat of a nuclear Iran, Ynetnews reported. Netanyahu remarks came during his meeting with Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of ....
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Ethiopia, US discusses peace and stability in Africa
Date: 2013-08-14 09:41:41 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:3 - ID:240495
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Berhane met with US acting assistant secretary for African affairs Donald Yamamoto to discuss some African affairs, Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The meeting, which was held on Monday, ....
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Eritrean president voices support for Egyptian popular will
Date: 2013-08-14 09:23:24 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:2 - ID:240449
Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki has told Mona Omar, the special envoy of Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour, that his country supports the will of the Egyptian people. In statements on Tuesday, Egyptian Ambassador to Eritrea Mahmoud ....
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Israeli defense minister reiterates respect for Egyptian sovereignty in Sinai
Date: 2013-08-13 17:10:34 GMT - Israel - International - SN:31 - ID:239798
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has stressed that Israel respects Egyptian sovereignty in Sinai. Israel is following up a campaign the Egyptian army is conducting to purge the peninsula of terrorism. ....
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Cholera outbreak in northeast Afghanistan
Date: 2013-08-13 16:01:28 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:25 - ID:239658
A cholera outbreak at a village in northeast Afghanistan has infected 1,492 people, killed a young woman and left another 100 in critical condition, ABC news quoted a provincial official as saying Tuesday. Abdul Marouf Rasekh, a spokesman for ....
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Bangladesh's largest Islamic party announces general strike
Date: 2013-08-13 15:44:29 GMT - Bangladesh - International - SN:19 - ID:239627
Bangladesh's largest Islamic party announced on Tuesday it will start a 48-hour general strike. Several thousand supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami party took to the streets in a district, 200 kilometers west of the capital, Dhaka, to ....