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Saudi Arabia "important" strategic partner to China - Chinese PM
Date: 2014-03-15 08:28:18 GMT - China - World - SN:24 - ID:609925
BEIJING, March 15 (MENA) - Saudi Arabia is an important strategic partner to China in the Middle East and the Gulf region, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang told visiting Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud during a meeting held on ....
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Venezuela accuses US secretary of state of 'murder'
Date: 2014-03-15 08:05:12 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:20 - ID:609915
CARACAS, March 15 (MENA) - Venezuela's Foreign Minister Elias Jaua has accused US Secretary of State John Kerry of inciting violence and called him a "murderer", according to The BBC. Jaua was reacting to comments by Kerry, who accused Venezuela ....
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2 killed, as pro-Russian activists clash in Ukraine's Kharkiv
Date: 2014-03-15 07:52:49 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:18 - ID:609877
KIEV, March 15 (MENA) - Two people were killed in clashes between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv, according to The BBC. Five people were injured overnight, as gunshots were fired. Rival groups blamed ....
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Decision to hold Crimea referendum complies with international law - Putin
Date: 2014-03-14 22:13:48 GMT - Russia - World - SN:142 - ID:609548
MOSCOW, March 14 (MENA) - A decision to hold a referendum on Crimea’s status in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea fully complies with international law and the United Nations Charter, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday in a telephone ....
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France welcomes releasing French journalist in Crimea
Date: 2014-03-14 21:08:24 GMT - France - World - SN:136 - ID:609544
PARIS, March 14 (MENA) - France expressed Friday its satisfaction for the release of French journalist David Gioveron, who worked for "Canal Plus" in Simferopol, after being detained in Ukraine for several hours French Embassy representatives met ....
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Taliban congratulates to its forces on ‘defeat’ of Canadians in Afghanistan
Date: 2014-03-14 21:06:32 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:135 - ID:609584
KABUL, March 14 (MENA) - A round of goodbye messages are following the last Canadian troops out the door in Afghanistan and some of them are rather nasty, the Toronto-based the Globe and Mail newspaper reported Friday. The Taliban’s information ....
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Kerry: Putin to decide on Crimea after referendum; US warns of annexation
Date: 2014-03-14 17:57:04 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:115 - ID:609374
LONDON, March 14 (MENA) - US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that more than five hours of talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not prepared to make any decision regarding ....
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Crimea 'means immeasurably more' to Russia than Falklands do to UK - Russian FM
Date: 2014-03-14 17:54:55 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:113 - ID:609376
LONDON, March 14 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Crimea "means immeasurably more" to Russia than the Comoro Islands mean to France or the Falklands do to Britain, The Voice of Russia reported on ....
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Russia, Ukraine and Crimea ... Asymmetric wars: report
Date: 2014-03-14 17:22:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:111 - ID:609332
LONDON, March 14 (MENA) – Shedding Light on Ukraine's cisis, The Economist said Friday that the best way to get Crimea back is for Ukraine to become a prosperous democracy—with the West’s help. It’s not the voting that matters, but the counting. ....
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Paris court orders website to remove leaked Sarkozy recordings
Date: 2014-03-14 17:18:48 GMT - France - World - SN:110 - ID:609329
PARIS, March 14 (MENA) - A French court on Friday ordered a French news site Atlantico to remove the recordings of secretly-taped conversations between former President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife and aides – in what has become known as the ....
