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Voting in Cyprus' parliamentary polls starts
Date: 2016-05-22 07:53:09 GMT - Cyprus - International - SN:1 - ID:4955349
Cypriot nationals began voting on Sunday to elect the 56 members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus, Euronews reported. Polling stations opened at 0700 local time (0400 GMT) and will remain open until 1800 (1500 GMT), with ....
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Tanzania's home affairs minister suspended for alcoholism
Date: 2016-05-21 13:07:27 GMT - Tanzania - International - SN:10 - ID:4951873
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked his home affairs minister after he turned up to parliament and answered questions while under the influence of alcohol, the presidency said, according to Euronews. President John Magufuli, who took ....
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Army spokesman publishes pictures of MS804 wreckage on Facebook
Date: 2016-05-21 11:06:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:4951057
Military Spokesman Mohamed Samir published a number of pictures of wreckage of the ill-fated EgyptAir plane and the belongings of a number of passengers. The pictures, published in the social networking site ''Facebook", include wreckage of the ....
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Israeli bill on executing captives entrenches fascism - official
Date: 2016-05-21 10:09:23 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:4950621
The Israeli rightist government's agreement on appointing Avigdor Lieberman as the defense minister and backing an Israeli bill on executing captives entrench fascism and racism, the head of the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs said on ....
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French civil aviation safety agency says smoke detected in EgyptAir cabin before crash
Date: 2016-05-21 08:52:09 GMT - France - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:4950093
The investigation bureau of the French civil aviation safety agency that is following up the file of EgyptAir flight 804 said that a smoke alert had been detected near the airliner cockpit early Thursday in the minutes before it crashed. The ....
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Interior Ministry denies car blast in Beheira
Date: 2016-05-21 07:52:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:4949901
The Interior Ministry has denied as "baseless" reports that a car blast occurred outside a traffic unit in Kafr el Dawar city in Beheira. "A microbus caught fire due to a short circuit," the ministry said in a statement, adding that firefighters ....
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Health minister attends WHO session in Geneva
Date: 2016-05-21 07:51:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:4949893
Health Minister Ahmed Emad along with his accompanying delegation will attend the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva. The meeting will be held from May 23 and will run until May 28. Ministers and health officials from 194 countries will ....
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14 gunmen killed in central Pakistan
Date: 2016-05-21 07:50:08 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:4 - ID:4949885
Pakistani police killed 14 al Qaeda-affiliated militants in an exchange of fire central Pakistan, anti-terror police units announced Saturday. One of the terrorists - who belonged to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups - has links to 2010 ....
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Argentina nominates minister for UN top post
Date: 2016-05-21 07:48:59 GMT - Argentina - International - SN:3 - ID:4949881
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has nominated Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra as a candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a vote that may hand the top post to a woman for the first time, Sky News reported Saturday. The UN ....
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Arab jets hit Houthi, Saleh targets in al Makha city
Date: 2016-05-21 07:46:37 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:4949873
Arab coalition jets have raided targets of the Houthi group and ousted Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the coastal city of al Makha in southwestern Yemen. The military council in Taiz said Saturday the jets hit missile launchers and ....
