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James Brady, White House press secretary under Reagan, dies
Date: 2014-08-04 20:31:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:152 - ID:858465
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was badly wounded in the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan and later became an advocate for gun control, has died. He was 73, Fox News reported on ....
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Pickets against Western tobacco companies held in Russian regions
Date: 2014-08-04 20:02:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:144 - ID:858399
MOSCOW, August 4 (MENA) - A series of pickets against Western tobacco companies were held on Monday in various Russian cities from south to the north-west of the country, ITAR-TASS reported. The picketers said multinational companies were ....
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Abe sent message to Xi calling for bilateral summit: source
Date: 2014-08-04 17:30:19 GMT - Japan - World - SN:120 - ID:858221
TOKYO, Aug 4 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently sent a personal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping saying the two leaders should meet to repair bilateral relations, Kyodo News quoted a diplomatic source as saying on ....
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Spain arrests 2 alleged female Jihadists
Date: 2014-08-04 17:04:46 GMT - Spain - World - SN:112 - ID:858162
MADRID, Aug 4 (MENA) – Spanish police say they have arrested two female Spaniards, one a minor, who planned to travel to Iraq or Syria to enlist in the Islamic State jihadist group, the ABC news reported. An Interior Ministry statement says the ....
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British national 'killed in Gaza'
Date: 2014-08-04 17:02:01 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:108 - ID:858215
LONDON, Aug 4 (MENA) - The British Foreign Office is investigating reports that a British national has been killed in Gaza, the BBC reported on Monday. A spokesman said UK officials were looking into reports that the person was killed in Rafah on ....
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Israeli injured in rocket fire in Sdot Hanegev
Date: 2014-08-04 16:51:26 GMT - Israel - World - SN:106 - ID:858185
GAZA CITY, Aug 4 (MENA) - Four rockets hit the Sdot Hanegev Regional Council and lightly injured one person on Monday afternoon, Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. One rocket fell within a kibbutz and did not cause damage ....
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More bodies recovered in massive Nepal landslide
Date: 2014-08-04 08:40:18 GMT - Nepal - World - SN:28 - ID:857056
KATMANDU, Aug 4 (MENA) - Rescuers recovered nine more bodies Monday from a massive weekend landslide in northern Nepal, raising the official death toll in the disaster to 19, but say there is no chance of finding alive any of the more than 150 ....
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Bangladesh official says ferry has capsized
Date: 2014-08-04 08:24:43 GMT - Bangladesh - World - SN:25 - ID:857049
DHAKA, Aug 4 (MENA) - A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized Monday in central Bangladesh, ABC News quoted a government official as saying. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority Chairman Samsuddoha Khondaker said M.V. Pinak ....
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China earthquake: Troops join search in Yunnan province
Date: 2014-08-04 06:23:23 GMT - China - World - SN:12 - ID:856844
BEIJING, Aug 4 (MENA) - China has sent 2,500 soldiers to the southwest province of Yunnan after an earthquake killed hundreds of people, the BBC reported. At least 381 people died and more than 1,800 were injured when the magnitude 6.1 earthquake ....
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Gaza conflict should not be excuse for anti-Semitism: UN chief
Date: 2014-08-04 06:15:54 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:11 - ID:856857
NEW YORK, Aug 4 (MENA - The conflict in Gaza should not be an excuse for anti-Semitic slurs and attacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said late Sunday. Ban "deplores the recent upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks, particularly in ....
