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France 'sorry' for killing of 2 Palestinians in Wes Bank
Date: 2014-06-24 16:48:21 GMT - France - World - SN:133 - ID:795782
PARIS, June 24 (MENA) - France voiced on Tuesday its sorrow for the killing of two Palestinians in the West Bank on Sunday. "I strongly deplore the incidents that led to the death of two young Palestinians in the West Bank on June 22 in the ....
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France calls for dialogue to form national unity gov't in Iraq
Date: 2014-06-24 16:22:41 GMT - France - World - SN:121 - ID:795784
PARIS, June 24 (MENA) - France reiterated on Tuesday the necessity to launch an inclusive dialogue in Iraq to form a national unity government as soon as possible. French foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said in a press release that the ....
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Finnish President appoints 73rd government
Date: 2014-06-24 15:20:49 GMT - Finland - World - SN:102 - ID:795640
HELSINKI, June 24 (MENA) – Finnish President Sauli Niinisto on Tuesday appointed Finland's 73rd Government under Prime Minister Alexander Stubb. The new government consists of 17 ministers. On Tuesday, 24 June, the government submitted a ....
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Israel joins Paris Club of rich creditor nations
Date: 2014-06-24 15:13:27 GMT - France - World - SN:100 - ID:795626
PARIS, June 24 (MENA) - Israel has joined an influential group of rich nations that help poor indebted economies, in the latest boost for Israel's international economic image, ABC News reported. The Paris Club of creditor nations announced ....
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UK Foreign Office to cut counter-terrorism budget by half
Date: 2014-06-24 13:06:57 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:76 - ID:795271
LONDON, June 24 (MENA) - The UK Foreign Office has halved its counter-terrorism budget even as officials warn of the most severe threat to the UK from overseas terror groups since the London bombings in 2005, the Financial Times reported on ....
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UK's Hammond warns of threat posed by ISIL ahead of talks with foreign ministers
Date: 2014-06-24 13:03:06 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:74 - ID:795290
LONDON, June 24 (MENA) - British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond started Tuesday a visit to the Gulf region to talk with leaders about the threat posed by hardline Islamist militants in Iraq, The Times reported Tuesday. The defense secretary ....
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Putin asks Upper House to repeal decision on using military force in Ukraine
Date: 2014-06-24 11:48:57 GMT - Russia - World - SN:54 - ID:795116
MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) – Russia's President Vladimir Putin has proposed that the upper house call off the March 1 resolution allowing the head of state to use the armed forces on the territory of Ukraine, said presidential press secretary Dmitry ....
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Gunmen kill 4 people in Afghanistan
Date: 2014-06-24 11:05:07 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:44 - ID:794973
KABUL, June 24 (MENA) – An Afghan official says an attack at a police checkpoint in the country's west has killed four people, two policemen and two civilians, the ABC news network reported. Administrative district chief Mohammad Rafiq Alokozay ....
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Radar Station in Russia’s Kaliningrad goes on experimental combat duty
Date: 2014-06-24 08:03:06 GMT - Russia - World - SN:25 - ID:794659
MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) - Russia has put the Kaliningrad early warning radar station on experimental combat duty, the press service of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) told RIA Novosti. “The Voronezh-DM missile attack early ....
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Russian diplomat urges UN to probe into oil exports by terrorists in Syria, Iraq
Date: 2014-06-24 07:02:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:14 - ID:794529
MOSCOW, June 24 (MENA) - Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said illegal exports of crude oil frim Iraq and Syria help finance terrorist organizations in the region, Itar-Tass news agency reported. Russia believes that the UN Security ....
