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Myanmar bans time magazine for story about monk
Date: 2013-06-26 09:40:42 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - International - SN:3 - ID:173217
NAYPYIDAW (MENA) - Myanmar's government has banned this week's issue of Time magazine because of a cover story about a Buddhist monk accused of fueling recent religious violence in the country, ABC News reported. State television announced ....
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Operation on Turkish economy via Gezi protests failed, Turkish PM says
Date: 2013-06-25 14:19:33 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:35 - ID:172098
ANKARA (MENA) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that a serious operation on Turkey's economy with protests focused on Gezi Park has failed, Hürriyet reported online. "Radical reforms that we have made in 10,5 years ....
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Taliban attack presidential palace in Afghanistan
Date: 2013-06-25 14:17:42 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:34 - ID:172095
KABUL (MENA) - Suicide attackers set up a car bomb and battled security forces outside Afghanistan's presidential palace Tuesday after infiltrating one of the most secure areas of the capital, ABC News reported. All the attackers were killed ....
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Hague praises power transfer in Qatar
Date: 2013-06-25 11:43:43 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:20 - ID:171747
LONDON (MENA) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague has welcomed news of Qatar's new leader as a "historic day", The Independent reported. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced that he has transferred power to British-educated crown ....
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Iran's president-elect praises ties with Russia
Date: 2013-06-25 11:31:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:17 - ID:171720
WASHINGTON (MENA) - Iran's president-elect says Tehran's relations with Russia will take high importance during his term in office, ABC News reported on Tuesday. The statement carried late Monday on the official website of Hasan Rouhani is the ....
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Police, protesters clash in Ankara
Date: 2013-06-24 11:23:08 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:4 - ID:170083
ANKARA (MENA) - Clashes broke out Sunday between policemen and protesters in Ankara's Dikmen Valley as demonstrators insisted to proceed with their anti-premier march to to Ankara's Kizilay Square, Turkish NTV channel reported. Police used ....
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Iran's Rohani dismisses foreign military intervention in Syria
Date: 2013-06-24 11:15:58 GMT - Iran - International - SN:2 - ID:170061
TEHRAN (MENA) - Iran’s President-elect Dr. Hassan Rohani has rejected foreign military intervention in the crisis-hit Syria, calling for an end to the unrest in the Arab country, Press TV reported Monday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s ....
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N. Korea denuclearization talks gain speed among six-party member countries: sources
Date: 2013-06-23 15:16:03 GMT - south korea - International - SN:3 - ID:168481
SEOUL (MENA) - International efforts to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons are gaining speed as countries committed to the denuclearization process in the past get ready for fresh rounds of negotiations following Pyongyang's latest talks ....
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US has secretly provided arms training to Syria rebels since 2012 - paper
Date: 2013-06-22 12:10:39 GMT - USA - International - SN:9 - ID:167325
WASHINGTON (MENA) - CIA operatives and US special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and antiaircraft weapons since late last year, months before President Obama approved plans to begin directly arming them, ....
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بوتين يدعو الى تشكيل مجلس عالمي للتنسيق في مجال الطاقة
Date: 2013-06-21 16:27:33 GMT - Russia - International - SN:14 - ID:166558
دعا الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين مجموعة العشرين إلى تشكيل مجلس عالمي للتنسيق في مجال الطاقة. وقال بوتين - على هامش أعمال منتدى بطرسبورج الاقتصادي العالمي الجمعة ، حسبما أفادت قناة "روسيا اليوم" - إن معظم المشاريع الكبرى في مجال الطاقة مخططة لسنوات ....