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Netanyahu slams Herzog for saying Iran not existential threat
Date: 2015-02-23 08:22:07 GMT - Israel - International - SN:13 - ID:2023333
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog of undermining his efforts to prevent Iran’s nuclearization by declining to call a potentially nuclear Iran an existential threat to the State of Israel. “I ....
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Iraqi intelligence body denies 'alleged military coup attempt'
Date: 2015-02-23 08:20:50 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:2023325
Iraq's intelligence agency has denied reports claiming that "a military coup attempt" had been discovered. "These reports are categorically unfounded," a spokesman for the agency said on Monday. On Sunday, Defense Minister Khaled el Obaidi ....
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N Korea bars tourists from race
Date: 2015-02-23 08:00:40 GMT - North Korea - International - SN:11 - ID:2023229
North Korean authorities are barring foreigners from this year's Pyongyang marathon, a popular tourist event, amid ongoing Ebola travel restrictions, the head of a travel agency that specializes in the country said on Monday, Bangkok Post ....
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World's biggest cargo ship crosses Suez Canal
Date: 2015-02-23 07:57:59 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:10 - ID:2023209
The world's biggest cargo ship transited the Suez Canal Monday, coming from Indonesia en route to the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The container ship was hoisting the flag of Panama, a source with the Suez Canal Authority told ....
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Yemen political powers fail anew to reach accord
Date: 2015-02-23 07:54:35 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:2023189
A meeting of political powers in Yemen has failed to discuss any topics amid differences between participating parties and the Houthi group. Abdel Aziz Jabary, the head of Justice and Building party, withdrew from the talks which continued till ....
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Death toll rises to at least 70 in Bangladesh ferry disaster
Date: 2015-02-23 07:49:45 GMT - Bangladesh - International - SN:8 - ID:2023153
The death toll from a weekend ferry disaster in central Bangladesh rose to 70 on Monday in the latest shipping mishap in the South Asian nation, ABC news reported. The official search for more bodies by divers at the accident site was called off ....
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Tony Abbott’s anti-terror laws: Australians to lose citizenship
Date: 2015-02-23 07:47:56 GMT - Australia - International - SN:7 - ID:2023129
Extraordinary powers to strip citizenship from Australians supporting terrorist groups are set to get cross-party support in Parliament. Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s security statement, centred on the threat of the IS “death cult” today carefully ....
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Sisi meets Italian businessmen today
Date: 2015-02-23 07:45:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:2023101
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will receive a delegation of Italian businessmen later Monday. The delegation is led by Carlo Calenda, the Italian Deputy Minister for Economic Development, presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said. Attending the ....
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Iran condemns Daesh attack on embassy in Libya
Date: 2015-02-23 07:44:24 GMT - Iran - International - SN:5 - ID:2023081
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denounced two bomb explosions by Daesh Takfiri terrorists outside the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Accurate information indicates that home-made bombs exploded outside the ....
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S. Korea summons Japan envoy over islet ceremony
Date: 2015-02-23 07:42:42 GMT - south korea - International - SN:4 - ID:2023065
South Korea summoned a senior Japanese diplomat here Monday to protest a Japanese prefecture's hosting of an annual event to promote its territorial claim to Seoul's easternmost islets of Dokdo, Yonhap news agency reported. Japan's Shimane ....
