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US recruits partners for Daesh fight
Date: 2014-08-28 06:21:47 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:894793
WASNINGTON, Aug 28 (MENA) - The US administration officials also said that Washington is recruiting partners for potential joint military action against the al-Qaeda breakaway group ISIL, better known as Daesh. Britain and Australia are potential ....
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UN official warns of Daash reusing resources in Syria
Date: 2014-08-27 17:38:49 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:132 - ID:894407
GENEVA, Aug 27 (MENA) - Chairman of the United Nations Committee of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro warned on Wednesday of Daash advance in Iraq after it has seized many cities and resources there. He also warned against reusing those ....
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F-15 fighter jet crashes in Virginia forest
Date: 2014-08-27 16:54:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:124 - ID:894415
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (MENA) - An F-15C fighter jet based at a National Guard facility in Massachusetts crashed Wednesday into a national forest in central Virginia, USA Today quoted an Air Force spokesperson as saying. The jet is a one-person craft ....
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Najib: Malaysia strongly condemns Daesh militants
Date: 2014-08-27 13:32:04 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:84 - ID:894046
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 (MENA) - Malaysia "strongly condemns" the actions of Daesh militants in Syria and Iraq who have committed crimes under the name of Islam. "We are deeply saddened by the crimes committed in the name of Islam, a religion of ....
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US rules out coordinating with Assad on airstrikes against Daesh in Syria: Report
Date: 2014-08-27 12:24:36 GMT - USA - World - SN:66 - ID:893810
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (MENA) - The US Administration has ruled out the possibility of coordinating any US airstrikes in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad’s government, forcing US officials to either design a campaign that would evade Syrian air ....
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UK police chief calls for new anti-terror powers
Date: 2014-08-27 12:16:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:62 - ID:893817
LONDON, Aug 27 (MENA) - Britain's most senior police chief has called for wide-ranging new powers to tackle homegrown terrorism, including a "rebuttable presumption" that anyone who visits Syria without prior notice should be treated as a terror ....
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Minsk summit shows Kiev policy to confront Moscow unjustified: Duma head
Date: 2014-08-27 11:52:43 GMT - Russia - World - SN:56 - ID:893799
MOSCOW, Aug 27 (MENA) - The Minsk summit between presidents of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko showed that Kiev's policy seeking total confrontation with Moscow had not been justified, the head of Russia’s State Duma ....
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Russia to continue humanitarian aid provision to east of Ukraine under Red Cross aegis
Date: 2014-08-27 11:08:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:52 - ID:893650
MOSCOW, Aug 27 (MENA) - Russia will continue the provision of humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s embattled east regions under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on ....
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UN Human Rights report cites murder, kidnap, torture in Ukraine
Date: 2014-08-27 07:39:06 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:24 - ID:893267
NEW YORK, Aug 27 (MENA) - Separatists in Ukraine and Ukraine government forces are guilty of a wide array of human rights abuses, including torture, a UN report said. The report by the 34-member UN monitoring mission, prepared by the UN human ....
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Dengue fever contracted in Japan for first time in 70 years
Date: 2014-08-27 07:11:50 GMT - Japan - World - SN:18 - ID:893211
TOKYO, Aug 27 (MENA) - The health ministry said Wednesday it has confirmed that someone has contracted dengue fever while in Japan for the first time in nearly 70 years, Kyodo reported. A Japanese teen in Saitama Prefecture with no record of ....
