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Thousands flee Central African violence into remote region of northern DRC
Date: 2018-05-19 14:59:22 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:1 - ID:7408072
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at new displacement in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 7,000 Central African Republic refugees have arrived in under a week into a situation of little help and desperate need, said UNHCR ....
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Putin, Macron to discuss Iran deal, Syria and Ukraine — Kremlin
Date: 2018-05-18 19:33:35 GMT - France - International - SN:16 - ID:7407117
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will discuss the situation around the Iran nuclear deal, Syria and Ukraine in St. Petersburg on May 24-25, the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Friday, TASS ....
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Putin, Merkel hold joint press conference in Russia's Sochi
Date: 2018-05-18 19:30:48 GMT - Russia - International - SN:15 - ID:7407115
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has started an official visit to Russia by meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Russian city of Sochi. The two leaders discussed the situation around the Iranian nuclear deal, the Ukrainian and ....
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Boeing 737 crashes in Cuba with 104 people on board: State media
Date: 2018-05-18 19:15:24 GMT - Cuba - International - SN:14 - ID:7407104
A Boeing 737 plane crashed on Friday shortly after taking off from Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport, Cuban new agency (ACN) reported. It was not yet known if there were any casualties. The plane was a domestic flight going to ....
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32 People injured after 2 buses collide in Lincoln Tunnel
Date: 2018-05-18 19:12:06 GMT - USA - International - SN:13 - ID:7407103
Fire officials said two buses have collided in the Lincoln Tunnel, injuring at least 32 people. The accident happened around 10 a.m. in the center tube of the tunnel between two New Jersey Transit buses and that most of the injuries were minor, ....
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Top UN rights body votes for inquiry on Gaza clashes
Date: 2018-05-18 18:21:15 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:12 - ID:7407046
The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to set up a commission of inquiry to look into a deadly crackdown on protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces, the Washington Post reported. Meeting in a special session in Geneva, the council voted 29-2 with ....
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8 killed in shooting at Texas' Santa Fe High School, CNN affiliates report
Date: 2018-05-18 16:02:34 GMT - USA - International - SN:11 - ID:7406951
At least eight people have died as a result of a shooting Friday morning at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe, CNN affiliates are reporting. This is the third school shooting in eight days, and the 22nd since the beginning ....
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Russia's arms exports register dlrs 13.4 bln in 2017 despite sanctions: Rostec
Date: 2018-05-18 09:32:01 GMT - Russia - International - SN:7 - ID:7406360
In spite of sanctions, Russia has managed to build up weaponry export in 2017 to dlrs 13.4 billion, compared to dlrs 13.1 billion in 2016, TASS quoted head of the Rostec State Corporation Sergei Chemezov as saying to Russian President Vladimir Putin ....
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Trump, Nato leader meet amid US-European discord
Date: 2018-05-18 09:08:04 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:7406313
U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met in Washington on Thursday amid conflicts between the United States and its European allies in the West's key defense organization, Voice of America Radio reported. Trump ....
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Kremlin: Putin, Assad assert importance of creating conditions for political settlement in Syria
Date: 2018-05-17 20:30:52 GMT - Russia - International - SN:13 - ID:7406028
Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who held talks in Sochi on Thursday, pointed out the importance of creating further conditions for resumption of a full-fledged process of political settlement in Syria, the Kremlin's ....