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Tighter security ordered for some US-bound flights
Date: 2014-07-02 21:45:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:144 - ID:808916
WASHINGTON, July 2 (MENA) - The Obama administration is stepping up security for some flights headed to the United States from Europe and the Middle East, the CNN reported Wednesday. This reflected heightened concern that terrorists are ....
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Afghan candidate Abdullah Abdullah 'would accept' defeat
Date: 2014-07-02 20:48:39 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:138 - ID:808882
KABUL, July 2 (MENA) - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said he would respect his rival winning, but only if it is proved the election was fair, the BBC reported Wednesday. He said he would do everything he could to ensure a ....
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T-Shirts with ISIL's emblem seen in Turkish clothes market
Date: 2014-07-02 20:46:05 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:137 - ID:808876
ANKARA, July 2 (MENA) – The Turkish clothes market have seen new fad of male t-shirts that hold emblems belonging to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In the Istanbul's Bagcılar district, a store that sells t-shirts with al-Qaeda ....
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NATO to set up strategic communications center in Latvian capital
Date: 2014-07-02 20:17:57 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:135 - ID:808859
BRUSSELS, July 2 (MENA) - Officials of Latvia, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Britain, and Germany have signed a memorandum on setting up NATO's center for strategic communications in Riga, the capital of Latvia, Itar-Tass news agency ....
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Suicide bomber kills 11 in attack in Kabul
Date: 2014-07-02 18:53:40 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:127 - ID:808804
KABUL, July 2 (MENA) - A Taliban suicide bomber struck a bus carrying Afghan military personnel in Kabul Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, ABC news reported quoted officials as saying. Army Gen. Kadamshah Shahim said the bomber was stopped ....
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Cameron warns Israel to avoid escalation after killing of three teenagers
Date: 2014-07-02 15:24:43 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:92 - ID:808345
LONDON, July 2 (MENA) - British Prime Minister David Cameron has cautioned Israel to be careful in its response to the murder of three teenagers and to avoid further escalation in the Middle East, the BBC reported. Addressing the MPs of the House ....
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Afghanistan to block Facebook pages inflaming ethnic divisions
Date: 2014-07-02 13:30:14 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:75 - ID:808246
KABUL, July 2 (MENA) - According to reports, the government of Afghanistan has requested for the removal of pages from Facebook website, fearing that such pages are used to inflame ethnic and sectarian divisions. This comes as Afghanistan is ....
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Russia voices concern over North Korea’s missile launches
Date: 2014-07-02 13:12:24 GMT - Russia - World - SN:64 - ID:808169
MOSCOW, July 2 (MENA) – Russia calls for showing restraint and preventing any actions that could escalate the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said, according to a report by ITAR-TASS. “We voice serious concern over ....
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EU spokesperson:" significant differences between Europe, Iran views"
Date: 2014-07-02 13:09:16 GMT - Austria - World - SN:62 - ID:808001
VIENNA, July 2 (MENA) - Spokesperson for the EU foreign policy chief Michael Mann told MENA on Wednesday that a bilateral meeting would be held between EU foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the ....
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Iran fully prepared for agreement -- FM
Date: 2014-07-02 12:42:42 GMT - Austria - World - SN:59 - ID:808064
VIENNA, July 2 (MENA) - Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday he is in the Austrian capital fully prepared to make a deal if the other side is politically determined to do so. "This round of talks is the last round until ....
