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Pervez Musharraf escaped assassination bid
Date: 2014-04-03 06:35:07 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:4 - ID:646541
ISLAMABAD, April 3 (MENA) – The former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf survived an assassination attempt after his convoy escaped a blast on Thursday. Musharraf, 70, was heading to his house at Rawalpindi when a roadside bomb went off ....
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4 killed, 16 injured in Fort Hood military base shooting
Date: 2014-04-03 05:26:32 GMT - USA - World - SN:1 - ID:646531
WASHINGTON, April 3 (MENA) - A shooting at the Fort Hood military installation in Texas left at least four people dead, including the gunman, and more than a dozen were injured, according to authorities. The gunman, identified by multiple ....
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6 police officers killed at Afghan interior ministry
Date: 2014-04-02 22:37:12 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:208 - ID:646450
KABUL, April 2 (MENA) - A suicide bomber has killed at least six police officers outside the interior ministry in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the BBC reported. A ministry spokesman said the attacker had tried to get inside the building wearing ....
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Seven dead as war bomb explodes in Bangkok scrap yard
Date: 2014-04-02 22:29:14 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:206 - ID:646454
BANGKOK, April 2 (MENA) - At least seven people were killed and 19 injured when a suspected World War Two bomb exploded in a scrap metal warehouse in the Thai capital, Bangkok, the BBC News reported Wednesday. Construction workers found the bomb ....
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US calls on Europe to wean itself from Russian gas
Date: 2014-04-02 20:27:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:197 - ID:646365
WASHINGTON, April 2 (MENA) - The United States on Wednesday called on Europe to wean itself from a dangerous dependency on Russian gas, saying it was time to stand together and bring an end to the Kremlin's use of energy supplies as political ....
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UK submarine joins search for missing plane
Date: 2014-04-02 19:32:34 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:188 - ID:646241
LONDON, April 2 (MENA) - British submarine HMS Tireless joined the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the BBC news reported Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence said the Trafalgar class submarine arrived in the southern Indian Ocean ....
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Russia disappointed by 'Europe’s silence over violence' against non-Ukrainians
Date: 2014-04-02 19:31:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:187 - ID:646266
MOSCOW, April 2 (MENA) - Moscow is disappointed by the "destructive silence" of the European Commission against racism and intolerance over acts of violence by the Kiev authorities against non-Ukrainians, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on ....
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Moscow says NATO's freeze of cooperation reminiscent of cold war
Date: 2014-04-02 19:25:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:184 - ID:646205
MOSCOW, April 2 (MENA) - NATO's decision to suspend cooperation with Russia resembles Cold War-style sword swinging, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying on Wednesday. The 28-nation NATO bloc ....
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Ongoing Syria conditions are detrimental to regional states - Iranian official
Date: 2014-04-02 18:50:20 GMT - Iran - World - SN:177 - ID:646049
TEHRAN, April 2 (MENA) - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Wednesday that ongoing conditions in Syria are detrimental for regional states. "One cannot be optimistic about settlement of Syria ....
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I called Russia to protect Ukranian people- Yanukovych says
Date: 2014-04-02 18:44:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:173 - ID:646159
MOSCOW, April 2 (MENA) - Ukraine’s ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych, said Wednesday that he was “wrong” to invite Russian troops into Crimea and called it to protect Ukrainian people, Ria Novosti news agency reported. In his first interview ....
