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Syria chemical disarmament progressing steadily – Ban Ki-moon
Date: 2013-12-29 13:08:47 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:467900
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has praised steady progress in Syria's chemical disarmament despite a "limited delay" in moving the most dangerous chemical warfare agents out the country by the December 31 deadline, Voice of Russia ....
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Female students tore up exam papers at Azhar University
Date: 2013-12-29 13:01:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:52 - ID:467879
Female students at Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Engineering raided university rooms, where mid-term exams are being held, and tore up exam papers, causing disorder. The faculty’s administration, with the help of security, brought the ....
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Four referred to criminal court over torching Egypt flag, Tahrir Memorial vandalism
Date: 2013-12-29 12:57:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:467870
The Public Prosecution referred on Monday four persons to Criminal Court over charges of burning Egypt's flag and vandalizing the Martyrs Memorial that was built at the center of Tahrir Square hours after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Hazem ....
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South Sudan gov't restores Bor, Bentiu from rebels
Date: 2013-12-29 12:52:19 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:50 - ID:467855
South Sudan government forces restored the cities of Bor and Bentiu from the rebels led by former vice president of South Sudan Riek Machar, a South Sudan military source said. According to the Khartoum newspaper Akhbar al-Youm, out Sunday, the ....
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Bomb dismantled near Azhar’s medicine faculty in Damietta
Date: 2013-12-29 12:50:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:467850
Security forces defused a bomb planted near Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Medicine in New Damietta on Sunday. A strange object seen next to the Faculty of Medicine was reported to security bodies and turned out to be a primitive ....
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Inflation rates up to 10.2 percent in 2013
Date: 2013-12-29 12:49:48 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:48 - ID:467849
Inflation rates rose to 10.2 percent from January to November, said the head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Unemployment rates upped to 13.4 percent. Poverty rates have also went up to 26.3 percent, ....
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Referendum success gives strong indication on our movement towards better future, says governor
Date: 2013-12-29 12:47:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:467840
Alexandria Governor General Tarek el-Mahdy asserted that the success of the referendum on Egypt’s draft constitution will give a strong indicator on resuming the march towards realizing a better future. In statements on Sunday, Mahdy said ....
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Argentina heat wave sparks protests
Date: 2013-12-29 12:46:04 GMT - Argentina - International - SN:46 - ID:467836
High temperatures have caused a wave of blackouts and water shortages across Argentine's capital, Buenos Aires. People have taken to the streets to voice their anger, but the government says power companies are to blame for not upgrading the ....
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Massive protests in Turkey demanding Erdogan to step down
Date: 2013-12-29 12:29:00 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:45 - ID:467801
A large number of demonstrators continued their protests in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Mersin, Hatay, Isparta, Bursa, Balxeir and Tunceli until the early hours of Sunday morning demanding Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign over a ....
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Lebanese party leader attacked in Tripoli
Date: 2013-12-29 12:26:43 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:467791
Orthodox Party of the Levant leader Rodrigue Khoury was attacked in the northern city of Tripoli late Saturday night. Two masked men attacked Khoury—who had arrived to Tripoli with a number of his friends—beat him, and stabbed him in the neck. ....
