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3 Chinese Inmates Kill Guard, Break out of Jail
Date: 2014-09-02 06:05:41 GMT - China - World - SN:5 - ID:902024
BEIJING, Sept 2 (MENA) - Three inmates, including one sentenced to death, escaped in a rare jailbreak in China's northeast after killing a guard early Tuesday morning, state media reported. The escape at from Yanshou county jail outside the city ....
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Iranian president to clerics: The Internet's not that bad
Date: 2014-09-01 21:38:04 GMT - Iran - World - SN:166 - ID:901952
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (MENA) – Iran's president Monday urged the country's clerics to be more tolerant of the Internet and new technologies, which are often the target of criticism by influential hard-liners in the Islamic Republic, CBS news ....
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Afghan intelligence foils suicide attack plots
Date: 2014-09-01 20:54:26 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:161 - ID:901919
KABUL, Sept 1 (MENA) – Afghan intelligence operatives foiled two separate suicide bombing plots in western Farah province of Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported. National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Monday that a suicide bomber along with ....
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NATO favors good relations with Russia: Chief
Date: 2014-09-01 20:17:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:154 - ID:901907
MOSCOW, Sept 1 (MENA) – NATO believes good relations with Russia are important but the alliance has to adapt to the situation given Russia’s position towards NATO, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday, RIA Novosti reported. ....
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Cabinet reshuffle in Austria
Date: 2014-09-01 19:24:09 GMT - Austria - World - SN:150 - ID:901822
VIENNA, Sept 1 (MENA) – As part of the Austrian government reshuffle, Economics Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner was sworn in as Vice Chancellor and Hans Joerg Schelling became the new finance minister. A leadership crisis in the Austrian ....
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Dutch to send 100 troops to Afghanistan in 2015
Date: 2014-09-01 19:22:17 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:148 - ID:901815
AMSTERDAM, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Dutch government says it plans to send 100 troops to northern Afghanistan as part of a NATO mission due to start in 2015, when the alliance’s combat mission in the war-weary nation ends, the ABC news reported. The ....
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5 killed in plane crash north of Denver
Date: 2014-09-01 19:20:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:146 - ID:901790
WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (MENA) - Five people were killed when a small plane crashed near an airport north of Denver Sunday, according to a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board. Peter Knudson said the Piper PA-46 airplane crashed ....
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NATO: ‘Ready to deploy forces’ in response to all security challenges
Date: 2014-09-01 18:24:55 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:137 - ID:901813
BRUSSELS, Sept 1 (MENA) - NATO is ready to rise to every challenge, its Secretary General said ahead of the alliance’s summit in Wales on Thursday and Friday (September 4-5), Euronews reported on Monday. Anders Fogh Rasmussen said an action plan ....
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UN to send investigators to Iraq to investigate Islamic State crimes
Date: 2014-09-01 18:21:42 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:132 - ID:901725
GENEVA, Sept 1 (MENA) - The UN Human Rights Council on Monday unanimously agreed to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate Islamic State atrocities, as Baghdad warned the country was "facing a terrorist monster," according to the Daily ....
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Russia's ITAR-TASS returns to its former name TASS
Date: 2014-09-01 17:58:17 GMT - Russia - World - SN:130 - ID:901788
MOSCOW, , Sept 1 (MENA) - Russia's leading state-run news agency has rebranded itself. No longer ITAR-TASS, the news giant's now returning to its former and world-famous name for delivering news to global audiences - simply titled TASS. The ....
