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Erdogan wins Turkish presidential office
Date: 2014-08-10 18:56:37 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:140 - ID:867617
ANKARA, Aug 10 (MENA) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to win the first presidential election ever on Sunday with about 52.1 percent as 99 percent of the votes have been counted, Turkish local media reported. Ekmeleddin ....
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Tracing Ebola’s breakout to an African 2-year-old
Date: 2014-08-10 17:22:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:127 - ID:867437
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (MENA) - Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in Guéckédou, in southeastern Guinea, The New York Times ....
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Erdogan surges ahead in Turkish polls
Date: 2014-08-10 17:20:34 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:126 - ID:867434
ANKARA, Aug 10 (MENA) - Outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has surged into the lead in Turkey's presidential election with 53 percent of the votes, early vote counts suggest. Erdogan's main opposition rival Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has ....
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Czech Republic sees record increase of new HIV cases
Date: 2014-08-10 17:18:22 GMT - Czech - World - SN:125 - ID:867445
PRAGUE, Aug 10 (MENA) - Doctors in the Czech Republic registered a record rise in the number of new HIV cases in the first half of 2014 - the highest since records of the virus were first established in former Czechoslovakia in 1985, Radio Prague ....
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Former Cuban pres. signs pro-Palestine manifesto
Date: 2014-08-10 16:18:25 GMT - Cuba - World - SN:116 - ID:867358
HAVANA, Aug 10 (MENA) - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has signed an international manifesto “supporting Palestine,” demanding Israel to respect UN resolutions and withdraw from Gaza, the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem). ....
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ISIL vows to "liberate Istanbul" in footage
Date: 2014-08-10 15:54:00 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:110 - ID:867270
ANKARA, Aug 10 (MENA) - A member of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) vowed in a video footage to "liberate Istanbul." In a video footage, one of the armed men urged the Turkish government to reconsider its decisions, as if they did not ....
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Passenger plane crashes around Tehran
Date: 2014-08-10 13:51:30 GMT - Iran - World - SN:84 - ID:867068
TEHRAN, Aug 10 (MENA) - Managing-Director of Iran's Airport Company Mohammad Ilkhani said a plane carrying 40 passengers and 8 crew crashed on the outskirts of the capital at 09:20 (0450 GMT) on Sunday. Ilkhani confirmed that the pilot was about ....
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1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Donetsk
Date: 2014-08-10 13:48:33 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:83 - ID:866924
KIEV/MOSCOW, Aug 10 (MENA) - Fighting raged Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk despite a request from the pro-Russian rebels there for a cease-fire to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe," Fox News reported. One person was killed and ....
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Forensic experts identified 65 victims of MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine
Date: 2014-08-10 13:42:25 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:80 - ID:866923
AMESTERDAM, August 10 (MENA) – The Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands said that Dutch forensic experts identified 65 of the 298 victims of a Malaysia Airlines plane crash, New York Post wrote Sunday. On Friday, the bodies of 176 passengers ....
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Pope calls on world to stop crimes against religious minorities in Iraq, dispatches envoy
Date: 2014-08-10 13:37:06 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:77 - ID:867062
VATICAN CITY, Aug 10 (MENA) - Pope Francis has expressed outrage at the violence aimed at religious minorities in Iraq, where fleeing children have died of thirst, and said his emissary to the region would leave Monday. In a strongly worded ....
