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  • Zarif, Ashton have talks in Tehran

    Date: 2014-03-09 07:44:02 GMT - Iran - World - SN:17 - ID:598163

    TEHRAN, March 9 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and visiting European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton are attending a joint press conference here on Sunday, IRNA news agency reported. The briefing session is held after ....

  • No sign of Malaysia Airline wreckage; questions over stolen passports

    Date: 2014-03-09 07:25:15 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:15 - ID:598116

    KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 (MENA) - There were few answers Sunday about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a day after contact was lost with the commercial jetliner en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, CNN reported. An aerial search resumed ....

  • Russian Defence Ministry to stop receiving US inspectors under New START Treaty

    Date: 2014-03-08 20:43:55 GMT - Russia - World - SN:140 - ID:597886

    MOSCOW, March 8 (MENA) - The Russian Defence Ministry will stop receiving foreign inspectors under the New START Treaty and the Vienna Document of 2011, a highly-placed source in the ministry told ITAR-TASS on Saturday. "We are ready to take this ....

  • Ukrainian reconnaissance aircraft targeted over Crimea

    Date: 2014-03-08 20:30:00 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:137 - ID:597884

    KIEV, March 8 (MENA) - A Ukrainian border patrol plane came under fire while flying at about 1,000 meters near the administrative border with Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday, the border guard spokesman said as the crisis in the region ....

  • Arrest over mosque 'arson attack' in Britain

    Date: 2014-03-08 19:56:00 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:133 - ID:597887

    LONDON, March 8 (MENA) - A man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack on a mosque in Milton Keynes, the BBC has reported. Police said a man had been seen acting suspiciously before a fire started at the back of the mosque ....

  • Russia says Obama’s sanctions over Ukraine should mean restrictions for Euro Maidan

    Date: 2014-03-08 19:46:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:131 - ID:597795

    MOSCOW, March 8 (MENA) - The United States has sanctioned extra-judicial expropriation of property of foreign individuals and organizations over the events in Ukraine, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry has said, commenting on US President ....

  • Ukraine insists on international observers at Crimean referendum, despite its illegality

    Date: 2014-03-08 18:48:35 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:121 - ID:597698

    KIEV, March 8 (MENA) - Ukraine will insist on the presence of international observers in the case of a referendum in Crimea, despite its illegality, Kiev Post reported on Saturday. "Any decisions of this referendum will be illegal, and there is ....

  • Russian amb. to Japan slams sanctions over Ukraine

    Date: 2014-03-08 18:25:57 GMT - Japan - World - SN:116 - ID:597753

    TOKYO, March 8 (MENA) - Russian Ambassador to Japan Evgeny Afanasiev has criticized the United States for imposing sanctions and the European Union for threatening to do so against Moscow over its sending troops into Ukrainian territory. "Sanctions ....

  • Iran: Good progress made in Iran, six powers expert-level talks

    Date: 2014-03-08 18:21:33 GMT - Iran - World - SN:115 - ID:597700

    TEHRAN, March 8 (MENA) – Iranian Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi says ‘good progress’ was made in the latest round of expert-level talks between Iran and the six world powers, Press TV reported Saturday. ....

  • World War III will almost certainly never happen - Magazine

    Date: 2014-03-08 18:21:12 GMT - USA - World - SN:114 - ID:597755

    NEW YORK, March 8 (MENA) - The US Magazine of "The Week" has ruled out the risk of the outbreak of a third world war, basing its view on the current data that recorded a decrease in the rates of wars and thus the resultant deaths since World War II. ....

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