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US warns of new generation of global terrorists
Date: 2014-05-01 06:15:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:10 - ID:697424
WASHINGTON, May 1 (MENA) - The worldwide terror threat is evolving as Al-Qaeda-linked groups and other militants become increasingly violent and a new generation of global terrorists is spawned in Syria, the Daily Star quoted a US report as warning ....
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US military intelligence chief stepping down
Date: 2014-05-01 05:09:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:697406
WASHINGTON, May 1 (MENA) - The head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency and his deputy will step down later this year, Pentagon officials said on Wednesday. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who had served as director of the DIA since July ....
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Putin, Cameron discuss Ukraine crisis over phone
Date: 2014-04-30 22:11:37 GMT - Russia - World - SN:142 - ID:697329
MOSCOW, April 30 (MENA) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed Wednesday the latest developments in the Ukrainian crisis over phone. They agreed the Ukrainian crisis can only be solved through ....
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Venezuela to raise minimum wage by 30%: Maduro
Date: 2014-04-30 20:49:20 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:128 - ID:697297
CARACAS, April 30 (MENA) - Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has announced will raise the minimum wage by 30% on 1 May, the BBC reported. He said he would also raise pensions by the same amount. The increase is below the level of annual ....
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Deadly China blast at Xinjiang railway station
Date: 2014-04-30 20:45:12 GMT - China - World - SN:127 - ID:697292
BEIJING, April 30 (MENA) - A bomb and knife attack at a railway station in China's western Xinjiang region has killed three and injured 79 others, the BBC reported Wednesday. Officials said that the attackers used explosives and knives at ....
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Poland: Comprehensive reforms led to join EU
Date: 2014-04-30 19:49:33 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:125 - ID:697154
CAIRO, April 30 (MENA) - Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said Wednesday that his country Poland and nine others joined the European Union decade ago after conducting comprehensive reforms the meet the membership criteria. In a statement ....
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No updates available on reopening British embassy in Tehran - UK foreign ministry
Date: 2014-04-30 18:32:47 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:120 - ID:697102
LONDON, April 30 (MENA) – The British foreign ministry on Wednesday said that no updates are available concerning the reopening of the UK embassy in Tehran. On Monday, British Foreign Office Political Director Simon Gass held meetings with ....
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Merkel threatens with imposing more sanctions on Russia
Date: 2014-04-30 18:23:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:117 - ID:697038
MOSCOW, April 30 (MENA) – Germany's Angela Merkel said Wednesday that the leading industrial powers would not waver on further sanctions on Russia. "We have always managed to agree on G7 declarations so far and I see no reason why further steps ....
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Russia starts combat helicopter training flights on Baltic border
Date: 2014-04-30 18:09:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:116 - ID:697072
MOSCOW, April 30 (MENA) - A newly formed Russian army helicopter brigade begun training flights in the northwest of the country near the borders with the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia, a spokesman for the Western Military District Col. Oleg ....
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Russia says Western countries planning UN SC resolution on Syria
Date: 2014-04-30 17:28:22 GMT - Russia - World - SN:110 - ID:697037
MOSCOW, April 30 (MENA) - Western countries are planning to draft a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria in accordance with Section 7 of the U.N. Charter, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on ....
