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Hammond: Britain supports Egypt-US efforts to reach ceasefire in Gaza
Date: 2014-07-24 15:00:38 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:77 - ID:843499
LONDON, July 24 (MENA) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond asserted on Thursday during his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories that his country supports Egypt-US efforts aiming to reach ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ....
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Austrian FM condemns violent assaults on Israeli footballers
Date: 2014-07-24 14:54:35 GMT - Austria - World - SN:75 - ID:843593
VIENNA, July 24 (MENA) – Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz strongly condemned assaults on Israeli Maccabi Haifa players during a friendly football match against France's Lille played in the Austrian town of Bischofshofen. "The assaults on ....
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India: School bus and train crash kills 18 children
Date: 2014-07-24 11:30:48 GMT - India - World - SN:48 - ID:843011
NEW DELHI, July 24 (MENA) - At least 18 children were killed along with their driver when a school bus was hit by a train in the Indian state of Telangana, police said. The passenger train rammed into the school bus, dragging it several hundred ....
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Turkey reiterates travel warning for Libya
Date: 2014-07-24 10:43:21 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:45 - ID:842992
ANKARA, July 24 (MENA) - Turkey has reiterated its travel warning for Libya as fighting intensifies and instability deepens in Libya. A statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Ankara strongly recommends citizens to ....
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Hammond: Britain determined to exert every effort to end Middle East conflict
Date: 2014-07-24 10:41:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:44 - ID:842970
LONDON, July 24 (MENA) - Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday that his country is determined to exert every possible effort to end the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Hammond, who is now visiting Israel, said that ....
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Communist Party ousted from Ukraine parliament
Date: 2014-07-24 10:39:52 GMT - Russia - World - SN:43 - ID:843036
MOSCOW, July 24 (MENA) - The Communist Party of Ukraine will cease to exist on Thursday, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament announced as quoted by Itar Tass. "We only have to tolerate this party for another day," Verkhovnaya Rada speaker ....
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Netherlands mourns as bodies of MH17 plane crash victims are flown home
Date: 2014-07-24 06:36:01 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:8 - ID:842623
AMSTERDAM, July 24 (MENA) - As the first coffin was lowered from the planes on the runway, silence fell over Eindhoven military airport, the BBC reported. Almost a week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot from the skies above Ukraine, 40 ....
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UK welcomes Syria sanctions against Assad allies
Date: 2014-07-23 21:11:24 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:142 - ID:842370
LONDON, July 23 (MENA) – UK Minister for Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood has welcomed action in the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) which will penalize key figures in the Assad regime including a notoriously brutal military commander and ....
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France jails pro-Palestinian protestors over riots
Date: 2014-07-23 20:18:12 GMT - France - World - SN:140 - ID:842381
PARIS, July 23 (MENA) - A French court has jailed three men for rioting after a pro-Palestinian rally in a mixed suburb of Paris degenerated into anti-Semitic violence, the BBC news reported on Wednesday. The three men, aged 21 and 28, were given ....
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Int'l space station may move to avoid space junk
Date: 2014-07-23 20:16:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:138 - ID:842374
MOSCOW, July 23 (MENA) - The International Space Station may have to move to avoid space debris, the Russian Mission Control Centre said on Wednesday. The station and its crew are in no danger but the move may be necessary, Itar-tass news agency ....
