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Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for NW Pakistan suicide attack
Date: 2016-03-07 11:39:29 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:10 - ID:4459993
A splinter group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed eight people and injured 14 others in the country's northwest Charsadda district on Monday morning, Shanghai Daily reported. "We have carried ....
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US conferred with Iran before Iraq invasion, Book Says
Date: 2016-03-07 07:44:36 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:4457685
Senior American officials held confidential talks with Iran about Iraq’s future in advance of the United States-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and secured a promise that the Iranian military would not fire at United States warplanes that ....
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North Korea threatens nuclear attack as US, Seoul start drills
Date: 2016-03-07 07:27:11 GMT - south korea - International - SN:2 - ID:4457585
North Korea on Monday threatened to launch nuclear strikes at the United States and its military bases in Northeast Asia as the United States and South Korea began one of their annual large-scale joint military exercises, Yonhap news agency ....
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Ghani calls on Taliban to choose between war and peace
Date: 2016-03-06 09:53:51 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:7 - ID:4452173
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani called on Taliban militants group to choose between war and peace, insisting that the group is facing a major test to choose between the country, nation and militancy, Khaama Press reported. In his speech during ....
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Slovak PM says will try to form government as election winner
Date: 2016-03-06 09:21:34 GMT - Slovakia - International - SN:3 - ID:4451845
Slovakia's leftist Smer party will try to form a new government after Saturday's election in which it won the most votes but fell short of an overall majority, Smer leader and Prime Minister Robert Fico was quoted as saying by Today Online. Fico ....
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US National Guard may join cyber offense against Daesh: Ash Carter
Date: 2016-03-06 08:09:21 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:4451257
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the National Guard's cyber squadrons will play an increasingly important role in assessing the vulnerabilities of US industrial infrastructure and could be asked to join the fight against Daesh, NDTV reported on ....
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Brazil's Silva denounces detention in corruption probe
Date: 2016-03-05 12:57:39 GMT - Brazil - International - SN:10 - ID:4448097
Brazilian police questioned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for about four hours in an investigation into a sprawling corruption case involving state-run oil company Petrobras that has ensnared some of the country's top lawmakers and ....
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US chief of staff winds up visit to Israel
Date: 2016-03-05 10:38:23 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:4446957
US Chief of Staff Joseph Dunford wound up a two-day visit to Israel. Dunford met with senior Israeli military leaders and the Israeli chief of staff, according to a statement of the Pentagon. Talks during the visit took up latest developments ....
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Obama, Afghan president discuss promoting security cooperation
Date: 2016-03-05 08:22:05 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:4445993
US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani discussed, during a video conference, ways of boosting joint security cooperation, the White House said in a statement. Obama also underlined Ghani's role in "working with Afghanistan’s ....
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Spanish parliament rejects Sánchez to be PM
Date: 2016-03-05 08:18:37 GMT - Spain - International - SN:2 - ID:4445969
The Spanish parliament rejected Socialist party leader Pedro Sánchez´s candidacy to form a center-left government in the first of two votes that will end or prolong the country’s 10-week-old leadership impasse, The Wall Street Journal ....
