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  • Hollande says France to offer $1 billion to climate fund for poor

    Date: 2014-09-23 18:17:36 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:141 - ID:999261

    NEW YORK, Sept 23 (MENA) - French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday announced that France will contribute $1 billion to a near-empty global fund to help poor countries adapt to the effects of climate change as he addressed the United Nation's ....

  • Hollande meets with Rouhani, expresses hope for nuclear deal

    Date: 2014-09-23 18:10:31 GMT - France - World - SN:139 - ID:999141

    PARIS, Sept 23 (MENA) - French President Francois Hollande met his Iranian counterpart on Tuesday and said afterwards that he hoped for a swift agreement on Iran's nuclear program, Business Insider reported. "The president hopes the negotiations ....

  • Three suspected jihadists detained at Paris airport

    Date: 2014-09-23 16:42:40 GMT - France - World - SN:131 - ID:998697

    PARIS, Sept 23 (MENA) - Three suspected jihadists, including the partner of Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah’s sister, were detained at Paris’s Orly Airport on Tuesday, the French Interior Ministry has said. The three men were taken into custody as ....

  • Austria joins int'l coalition against terrorism -- FM

    Date: 2014-09-23 14:40:00 GMT - Austria - World - SN:108 - ID:997613

    VIENNA, Sept 23 (MENA) - Austria announced it has politically joined the international coalition against terrorism and terrorist organizations such as Daesh,said Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. He said his country will focus on the ....

  • Climate change summit opens in NYC

    Date: 2014-09-23 14:07:30 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:101 - ID:996881

    NEW YORK, Sept 23 (MENA) - With more than 120 heads of state and government present, the Climate Change summit opened here Tuesday. Addressing the summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked public and private sector leaders to commit to ....

  • Up to19 extremists killed in air raids by Pakistani forces in North Waziristan

    Date: 2014-09-23 13:38:10 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:97 - ID:997097

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 23 (MENA) - At least 19 extremists were killed in air raids targeting their hideouts in the province of North Waziristan, announced the Pakistani Army on Tuesday. The raids targeted the extremists' hotbeds near Northern ....

  • Suicide blast kills 3, injures 13 in Pakistan

    Date: 2014-09-23 13:01:10 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:87 - ID:996485

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 23 (MENA) - Three people have been killed and 13 others injured in a suicide blast against a security forces' vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. Three people were killed included a woman, a civilian and a member ....

  • Muslims protest against Daesh in Italy

    Date: 2014-09-23 12:55:13 GMT - Italy - World - SN:86 - ID:996933

    ROME, Sept 23 (MENA) - Italian and foreign Islamic gatherings staged on Tuesday several protests against Daesh terrorists. Muslim participants stressed their rejection of Daesh and called for putting an end to all forms of violence and ....

  • UK PM backs US-led air strikes on Syria

    Date: 2014-09-23 12:53:39 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:85 - ID:996753

    LONDON, Sept 23 (MENA) – UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said he "supports" Barack Obama's decision to launch a bombing campaign on jihadists in Syria and is examining "what more" Britain can do in the fight against the terrorists. A Downing ....

  • Americans who joined Daesh back in US

    Date: 2014-09-23 12:31:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:78 - ID:996145

    NEW YORK, Sept 23 (MENA) – Some of the demented Americans who have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the bloodthirsty al-Qaeda offshoot in Iraq (Daesh) killers are now filtering back into the United States, senior administration, officials ....

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