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  • S.Korea, China leaders expected to find more common ground on N. Korea at summit

    Date: 2014-07-02 07:58:18 GMT - south korea - World - SN:12 - ID:807578

    SEOUL, July 2 (MENA) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping will issue a joint statement this week that includes an agreement to help resolve North Korea's nuclear issue through peaceful negotiations, a senior ....

  • Venezuela leader says ties restored with panama

    Date: 2014-07-02 07:18:31 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:7 - ID:807527

    CARACAS, July 2 (MENA) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says his government is restoring diplomatic relations with Panama now that the Central American country has a new president, ABC reported. Maduro broke off relations on March 5 after ....

  • Hong Kong police arrest democracy protesters at sit-in

    Date: 2014-07-02 07:18:16 GMT - Hong Kong - World - SN:6 - ID:807528

    VICTORIA, July 2 (MENA) - Hong Kong police have arrested over 500 protesters who staged a pro-democracy sit-in at the city's business district. The demonstrators were arrested for illegal assembly and obstructing police officers, police ....

  • Lavrov, German FM warn of new round of bloodshed in Ukraine

    Date: 2014-07-01 21:41:13 GMT - Russia - World - SN:131 - ID:807363

    MOSCOW, July 1 (MENA) - Moscow and Berlin believe the truce in Ukraine should be extended, the Russian Foreign Ministry was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation in Ukraine with ....

  • Putin: unipolar world model failed

    Date: 2014-07-01 20:57:22 GMT - Russia - World - SN:124 - ID:807309

    OSCOW, July 1 (MENA) – The current global events clearly demonstrate that the unipolar model of the world has failed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, the RIA Novosti reported. “There can hardly be doubts that the unipolar world ....

  • U.S. voices support for Japan's collective self-defense right

    Date: 2014-07-01 20:38:06 GMT - Japan - World - SN:122 - ID:807310

    TOKYO, July 1 (MENA) – The United States voiced support for Japan's pursuit of the right to collective self-defense as Tokyo was set to adopt a new constitutional interpretation to exercise the controversial right in a move unnerving its neighbors, ....

  • Kiev's refusal to extend truce unleashes new spiral of bloodshed - Lavrov

    Date: 2014-07-01 20:36:38 GMT - Russia - World - SN:121 - ID:807302

    MOSCOW, July 1 (ITAR-TASS) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's decision not to extend the truce regime undermined earlier agreements reached by the Russian, German, French and Ukrainian leaders and unleashed a new spiral of bloodshed with ....

  • Bulgaria-Turkey border fence to be ready 'within days' - DefMin

    Date: 2014-07-01 20:33:43 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:120 - ID:807314

    SOFIA, July 1 (MENA) - Bulgaria's Defense Minister Angel Naydenov announced it would take days to complete a border fence being built at the border with Turkey, Sofia news agency reported on Tuesday. "We are days away from having constructed this ....

  • Vienna-6 talks on Iran's nuclear program to continue until July 20 – official

    Date: 2014-07-01 19:21:20 GMT - Iran - World - SN:107 - ID:807229

    TEHRAN, July 1 (MENA) - Two senior nuclear negotiators Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht-e Ravanchi said Tuesday that nuclear talks between Iran and the six world nations scheduled to begin on Wednesday will continue for 18 days until July 20, IRNA News ....

  • 11 militants killed following airstrike by Afghan air force

    Date: 2014-07-01 17:35:48 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:94 - ID:807135

    KABUL, July 1 (MENA) - At least eleven Taliban militants were killed following an airstrike by Afghan air force, Khaama Press reported on Tuesday. Defense ministry spokesman, Gen. Zahid Azimi, said the militants were killed in the past 24 ....

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