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Hammond: Britain determined to exert every effort to end Middle East conflict
Date: 2014-07-24 10:41:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:44 - ID:842970
LONDON, July 24 (MENA) - Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday that his country is determined to exert every possible effort to end the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Hammond, who is now visiting Israel, said that ....
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Communist Party ousted from Ukraine parliament
Date: 2014-07-24 10:39:52 GMT - Russia - World - SN:43 - ID:843036
MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - The Communist Party of Ukraine will cease to exist on Thursday, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament announced as quoted by Itar Tass. "We only have to tolerate this party for another day," Verkhovnaya Rada speaker ....
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Netherlands mourns as bodies of MH17 plane crash victims are flown home
Date: 2014-07-24 06:36:01 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:8 - ID:842623
AMSTERDAM, July 24 (MENA) - As the first coffin was lowered from the planes on the runway, silence fell over Eindhoven military airport, the BBC reported. Almost a week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot from the skies above Ukraine, 40 ....
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UK welcomes Syria sanctions against Assad allies
Date: 2014-07-23 21:11:24 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:142 - ID:842370
LONDON, July 23 (MENA) – UK Minister for Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood has welcomed action in the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) which will penalize key figures in the Assad regime including a notoriously brutal military commander and ....
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France jails pro-Palestinian protestors over riots
Date: 2014-07-23 20:18:12 GMT - France - World - SN:140 - ID:842381
PARIS, July 23 (MENA) - A French court has jailed three men for rioting after a pro-Palestinian rally in a mixed suburb of Paris degenerated into anti-Semitic violence, the BBC news reported on Wednesday. The three men, aged 21 and 28, were given ....
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Int'l space station may move to avoid space junk
Date: 2014-07-23 20:16:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:138 - ID:842374
MOSCOW, July 23 (MENA) - The International Space Station may have to move to avoid space debris, the Russian Mission Control Centre said on Wednesday. The station and its crew are in no danger but the move may be necessary, Itar-tass news agency ....
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Russia urges Ukraine and militia to cease fire
Date: 2014-07-23 19:47:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:135 - ID:842376
MOSCOW, July 23 (MENA) - Russia's Foreign Ministry urged Wednsday Ukraine and militia to immediately cease fire in order to thoroughly investigate the tragedy of Boeing 777 jet crash and to save lives of women, children and elderly people, the ....
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Russia offers help to negotiate Gaza truce
Date: 2014-07-23 19:29:54 GMT - Russia - World - SN:133 - ID:842380
MOSCOW, July 23 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin offered help to mediate a truce between the armed Palestinian group Hamas and Israel, which has expanded its military campaign in the Gaza Strip by launching a ground offensive, Ria Novosti ....
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Planes carrying MH17 bodies arrive in the Netherlands
Date: 2014-07-23 15:36:37 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:92 - ID:842049
AMSTERDAM, July 23 (MENA) - The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, the BBC reported. Church bells rang out throughout the country as the planes touched down ....
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Israel ''overdoing'' its response to Hamas - Albright
Date: 2014-07-23 15:15:40 GMT - Israel - World - SN:86 - ID:841975
GAZA CITY, July 23 (MENA) - Israel looks like it's "overdoing" its response to Hamas rocket fire, which is "hurting Israel's moral authority," former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said. Although she expressed support for Israel's right ....
