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  • Putin warns of reviewing partnership with Kiev unless repays gas debts

    Date: 2014-05-28 18:23:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:151 - ID:748944

    MOSCOW, May 28 (MENA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country's approach to gas cooperation with Kiev was based not only on partnership, but also on friendship, but warned that Moscow may review its approach, RIA Novosti ....

  • Obama outlines foreign policy vision

    Date: 2014-05-28 17:37:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:146 - ID:748943

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) – US President Barack Obama has provided the broad outlines of the American foreign policy, during his second term, in conjunction with announcing the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan over the next two ....

  • Top US commander: Obama ended Afghan uncertainty

    Date: 2014-05-28 14:23:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:105 - ID:748586

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - The top US and coalition commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's decision to keep about 10,000 American troops in the country past 2014 has eliminated any uncertainty Afghans may have had ....

  • France advised its nationals of limiting their movement in Egypt on 3rd day of balloting

    Date: 2014-05-28 11:31:15 GMT - France - World - SN:65 - ID:747411

    PARIS, May 28 (MENA) -France has advised its nationals, currently staying in Egypt, to limit their movement after the extension of voting in Egypt's presidential polls for a third day. The French Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International ....

  • U.S. Troops to leave Afghanistan by end of 2016

    Date: 2014-05-28 10:51:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:41 - ID:747922

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - President Obama, declaring that it was “time to turn the page on a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” announced on Tuesday that he planned to withdraw the last ....

  • Thailand's Military says many detainees freed

    Date: 2014-05-28 08:43:14 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:26 - ID:747518

    BANGKOK, May 28 (MENA) - Thailand's army says it has now released 124 people, including politicians and activists, who were taken into custody after the coup. Conditions for the release appear to include agreeing to avoid political activity and ....

  • Philippine Refugee Tent Fire Kills Mother, 5 Kids

    Date: 2014-05-28 06:50:28 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:13 - ID:747415

    MANILA, May 28 (MENA) - n overnight fire razed a tent used as a temporary shelter by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, killing a woman and five of her children, including a 4-month-old girl, officials in a central Philippine city devastated by the ....

  • South Korea hospice fire kills 21

    Date: 2014-05-28 06:07:36 GMT - south korea - World - SN:11 - ID:747339

    SEOUL, May 28 (MENA) - At least 20 patients and a nurse have been killed in a fire at a hospice in Janseong county, South Korea, BBC reported on Wednesday. Six others are in critical condition after the fire at Hyosarang Hospital, about 300km ....

  • State Department calls for all US citizens to leave Libya

    Date: 2014-05-28 03:39:10 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:747262

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - The State Department has urged all U.S. citizens to immediately leave Libya due to security concerns, Fox News reported. The evacuation warning came shortly after the USS Bataan, with about 1,000 Marines aboard, sailed ....

  • US awaits results of Egypt's presidential vote: spokeswoman

    Date: 2014-05-27 21:14:52 GMT - USA - World - SN:195 - ID:747187

    WASHINGTON, May 27 (MENA) – US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki has said Washington is waiting for the results of Egypt's presidential vote. The spokeswoman said that the US was waiting for the reports of the international monitors on the ....

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