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Ukrainian president, pro-Russia rebel leader say they will order ceasefires
Date: 2014-09-05 07:03:25 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:14 - ID:907181
KIEV, Sept 5 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian separatist leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five-month war in Ukraine's east, ....
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MENA agenda for Friday, September 5
Date: 2014-09-05 05:13:53 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:2 - ID:907107
JEDDAH, Bahraini King Hamad bin Eissa al-Khalifa arrives here on a visit during which he meets Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz al-Saud. BERLIN, Pilots at Germany’s flag carrier Lufthansa start a six-hour strike to demand a ten percent salary ....
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China successfully launches two satellites into orbit
Date: 2014-09-04 20:16:01 GMT - China - World - SN:116 - ID:906955
BEIJING, Sept 4 (MENA) - China shot two satellites into orbits via one rocket on Thursday to relay environmental information and experiment with multimedia satellite communication, the Telegraph reported. The satellites were launched by a Long ....
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Pope, Shimon Peres discuss situation in Middle East
Date: 2014-09-04 19:16:54 GMT - Italy - World - SN:110 - ID:906893
ROME, Sept 4 (MENA) - Pope Francis and former Israeli president Shimon Peres met Thursday at the Vatican to discuss the situation in the Middle East as well as the return of anti-Semitism in Europe, the Jerusalem Post reported. Peres briefed the ....
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Lavrov, Steinmeier Express Full Support to Efforts to Achieve Ceasefire in Ukraine
Date: 2014-09-04 18:40:39 GMT - Russia - World - SN:106 - ID:906857
MOSCOW, Sept 4 (MENA) - In a phone conversation Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed full support to efforts aimed at declaring a ceasefire in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign ....
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S. Korean vice FM visits shelter for sex slavery victims
Date: 2014-09-04 18:08:49 GMT - south korea - World - SN:103 - ID:906894
SEOUL, Sept 4 (MENA) – South Korea's vice foreign minister visited a shelter for victims of Japan's wartime sexual enslavement on Thursday ahead of a bilateral meeting on the issue that has frayed ties between the nations, Yonhap news agency ....
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NATO chief asks Russia to pull back troops
Date: 2014-09-04 17:57:49 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:101 - ID:906856
LONDON, Sept 4 (MENA) – NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Russia on Thursday to pull back its troops from Ukraine and to stop supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine, the Voice of Russia reported. "We call on Russia to end its ....
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Britain supplies Syrian rescue teams with lifesaving equipment
Date: 2014-09-04 15:17:49 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:83 - ID:906619
LONDON, Sept 4 (MENA) - The Syrian rescue teams who are operating in the regions controlled by the Syrian opposition received from Britain lifesaving equipment worth more than 1.5 million pounds sterling, said British Minister for Middle East and ....
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Khamenei lauds Palestine resistance against Israel
Date: 2014-09-04 14:16:40 GMT - Iran - World - SN:73 - ID:906512
TEHRAN, Sept 4 (MENA) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised Palestinian resistance movements for firmly standing up to the Israeli military during its recent 50-day aggression on Gaza. Ayatollah Khamenei said ....
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Russia blocks Daesh video
Date: 2014-09-04 12:45:22 GMT - Russia - World - SN:59 - ID:906191
MOSCOW, Sept 4 (MENA) - Russian authorities are seeking have blocked Internet access to a video in which the co-called Islamic State (Daesh) supporters threaten to unleash a ‘liberation’ war in North Caucasus, ITAR-TASS reported on Thursday. The ....
