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UNSMIL condemns escalation , urges parties to respond to ceasefire efforts
Date: 2014-08-17 11:43:49 GMT - Libya - World - SN:52 - ID:877892
TRIPOLI, Aug 17 (MENA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) condemns the grave escalation in the military confrontations in Tripoli and its suburbs. The Mission strongly denounces the shelling of residential neighbourhoods, ....
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N. Korea threatens 'merciless attacks' to counter South Korea-U.S. joint military drill
Date: 2014-08-17 10:31:48 GMT - south korea - World - SN:45 - ID:877699
SEOUL, Aug 17 (MENA) - North Korea threatened Sunday to launch "merciless pre-emptive" attacks on the South ahead of Seoul's joint military exercise with Washington slated for this week, Yonhap news agency reported. "We again declare that we will ....
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3 people killed, 4 injured in China explosion
Date: 2014-08-17 08:57:56 GMT - China - World - SN:34 - ID:877484
BEIJING, Aug 17 (MENA) - At least three people were killed and four injured Sunday in an explosion at a residential apartment in China. The incident took place in Changzhi city of north China's Shanxi province, reported Xinhua. Two people died ....
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S. Korea completes evacuation of citizens from Libya
Date: 2014-08-17 08:48:39 GMT - south korea - World - SN:33 - ID:877545
SEOUL, Aug 17 (MENA) - With a South Korean Navy destroyer carrying its last batch of South Korean citizens out of Libya on Sunday, the country completed its evacuation mission in the war-ravaged African country, a foreign ministry official said. ....
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Iran hails democratic transition of power in Iraq
Date: 2014-08-17 07:37:33 GMT - Iran - World - SN:18 - ID:877374
TEHRAN, Aug 17 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham voiced Tehran's full support for the peaceful and democratic transition of political power in Iraq, and called on the country's political parties and figures to grow more ....
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Dozens defy Missouri curfew in riot-hit Ferguson
Date: 2014-08-17 06:34:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:877316
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (MENA) - About 150 people have defied an overnight curfew in Ferguson, the St Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot dead by police last week, the BBC reported. The protesters refused to disperse before a midnight (05:00 ....
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5 Red Cross workers abducted in Afghanistan, spokesman says
Date: 2014-08-17 06:33:15 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:13 - ID:877280
KABUL, Aug 17 (MENA) - A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan said five members of their Afghan staff members have been abducted. Marek Resich said that the employees were traveling by road in the western ....
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Pakistan fires 23 rockets in Afghanistan's Kunar
Date: 2014-08-16 19:18:34 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:99 - ID:877124
KABUL, Aug 16 (MENA) - At least 23 rockets were fired from Pakistan in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan in the latest spate of cross-border shelling from the other side of Durand Line, khaama Press reported. Provincial police chief Abdul ....
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Spiegel: BND focus on Turkey nets Kerry, Clinton
Date: 2014-08-16 18:30:26 GMT - Germany - World - SN:94 - ID:877085
BERLIN, Aug 16 (MENA) - The magazine Der Spiegel says Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency tapped a satellite phone call made by US Secretary of State John Kerry last year. It resulted from BND spying on Turkey, begun in 2009, Deutsche Welle ....
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Russian ambassador discusses Ukraine at Britain’s Foreign Office
Date: 2014-08-16 18:08:15 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:93 - ID:877086
LONDON, Aug 16 (MENA) - Russia’s ambassador in Britain Aleksandr Yakovenko was summoned to the Foreign Office on Friday for a meeting with Acting Permanent Under-Secretary Matthew Rycroft, a statement by the Russian embassy here was quoted by ....
