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Rose Gottemoeller: Europe needs missile defense system due to missile threats from Iran
Date: 2013-12-11 08:52:49 GMT - Russia - International - SN:24 - ID:434064
The US is determined to deploy a missile defense system in Europe since Iran poses not only nuclear, but also missile threat, ITAR TASS reported quoting Acting US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose ....
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Minister lauds Sudan's efforts in technical committee meetings on Ethiopia dam
Date: 2013-12-11 08:35:32 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:434020
Egyptian Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Motleb lauded the atmosphere that prevailed in the technical committee meetings with Sudan and Ethiopia on the under-construction Renaissance Dam. The minister praised efforts exerted by Sudan to ....
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Lavrov arrives in Tehran on two-day visit
Date: 2013-12-11 08:34:29 GMT - Iran - International - SN:22 - ID:434014
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived here on an official visit to Tehran on Tuesday to discuss bilateral ties with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, Russia's Consul-General in Iran's Northern City of Rasht Maxim Baranov ....
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Israeli extended state of emergency by 5 months
Date: 2013-12-11 08:33:01 GMT - Israel - International - SN:21 - ID:434010
A joint panel of the Israeli Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Law, Constitution and Justice Committee extended Tuesday the state of emergency for another five months. Israel has been in a state of emergency since its ....
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Taliban claimed responsibility for explosion near Kabul airport
Date: 2013-12-11 08:31:06 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:20 - ID:434004
The Afghan Taliban claimed Wednesday responsibility for this morning explosion near a gate used by NATO troops in the northern section of the Kabul airport. Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was a suicide bombing against foreign ....
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Egypt, Russia are about to resume military cooperation - envoy
Date: 2013-12-11 08:28:54 GMT - Russia - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:433998
Egypt and Russia are about to resume their military cooperation, that was suspended, said Russian Presidential Envoy for Africa Mikhail Margelov. Speaking at the London Institute fr International Relations, Margelov said, as quoted by Ria ....
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2 booby-trapped cars defused in Sanaa - military source
Date: 2013-12-11 08:20:40 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:433972
Security forces dismantled two booby-trapped cars as part of their search for five others that entered the Yemeni capital at the time of the bloody attack on the Defense Ministry last week, a Yemeni military source said. On Thursday, a suicide ....
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Market fire in China's Shenzhen kills 16
Date: 2013-12-11 08:17:28 GMT - China - International - SN:17 - ID:433963
A fire in a farmers' fruit market in south China's Shenzhen has killed at least 16 people and injured at least three, the BBC reported quoting officials The fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday and spread to an area of around 1,000 sq m ....
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Woman killed in house collapse in Luxor
Date: 2013-12-11 08:15:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:433958
A woman was killed and her husband was wounded when their house in the western bank of Luxor collapsed. Upon receiving a report on the collapse, civil defense teams rushed to get the 24-year-old woman from under the rubble. The wounded husband ....
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Egyptian ambassador hopes FM visit to Beijing to achieve peoples' aspirations
Date: 2013-12-11 08:14:34 GMT - China - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:433955
Egypt's Ambassador to Beijing Magdy Amer said Wednesday Egypt was seriously committed to implementing the road map and preparing for the new constitution referendum with a national consensus in a way that realizes the Egyptian people's aspirations ....