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Former Georgian President Shevardnadze dies
Date: 2014-07-07 10:04:25 GMT - Georgia - World - SN:32 - ID:815390
TBILISI, July 7 (MENA) - Eduard Shevardnadze, ex-president of Georgia and former Soviet foreign minister, has died, his personal assistant said on Monday as quoted by the BBC. Marina Davitashvili said the former president died after a long ....
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Zarif, Ashton to meet in Vienna today
Date: 2014-07-07 06:41:11 GMT - Austria - World - SN:8 - ID:815002
VIENNA, July 7 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton will meet Monday morning on the sixth day of negotiations of Vienna 6 to discuss the writing process of the comprehensive agreement ....
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Merkel begins China visit
Date: 2014-07-06 21:14:34 GMT - China - World - SN:144 - ID:814830
BEIJING, July 6 (MENA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is beginning a three-day visit to China with trade issues high on the agenda. The countries are important trading partners and Merkel is travelling with a large delegation of German business ....
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Rouhani congratulates Venezuela on Independence Day
Date: 2014-07-06 18:12:45 GMT - Iran - World - SN:113 - ID:814633
TEHRAN, July 6 (MENA) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Moros on the countryˈs Independence Day, Irna News Agency reported. The message said that the ˈ"Government of Prudence and Hope" attaches ....
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Twin British sisters aged 16 fled home to join ISIL in Syria
Date: 2014-07-06 16:15:15 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:90 - ID:814467
LONDON, July 6 (MENA) - Twin sisters from Britain have fled their beds in the middle of the night to join ISIL fighters in Syria, the Sun reported on Sunday. The 16-year-olds crept out of the family home in Manchester as their parents slept and ....
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Iran, Qatar to establish joint free economic zone
Date: 2014-07-06 12:11:02 GMT - Iran - World - SN:40 - ID:813813
Tehran, July 6, (MENA) - Iran and Qatar have agreed to establish a joint free economic zone in the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian official said here on Sunday as reported by IRNA news agency. The southern Bushehr province and its vicinity ....
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Wall collapse kills 11 workers in Southern India
Date: 2014-07-06 08:21:59 GMT - India - World - SN:13 - ID:813480
NEW DELHI, July 6 (MENA) - Eleven construction workers were killed Sunday after the boundary wall of a warehouse collapsed in southern India in the country's latest building disaster, ABC News reported. The laborers had built lean-tos and shacks ....
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NK says rocket launches are 'sovereign right'
Date: 2014-07-06 07:30:12 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:8 - ID:813425
PYONGYANG, July 6 (MENA) - North Korea on Sunday again defended its recent short-range rocket launches, saying it is exercising its sovereign rights, Yonhap reported. The communist nation test-fired two projectiles into the East Sea on Wednesday, ....
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Washington calls for swift investigation in using force against US kid held by Israel
Date: 2014-07-05 22:08:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:109 - ID:813301
WASHINGTON, July 5 (MENA) - The US called Saturday for a swift investigation in using force against a US kid held by Israeli forces. It voiced deep concern over reports that Tarek Khodier, a 15 year-year-old carrying the US nationality, was harshly ....
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Middle East at tipping point - US Diplomat
Date: 2014-07-05 21:37:56 GMT - USA - World - SN:104 - ID:813267
BOSTON, July 5 (MENA) - US diplomat Nicholas Burns described President Barack Obama's position and the events in Iraq as "Shakespearean drama". Burns, in an article published in the "Boston Globe", said Obama’s defining foreign-policy passion has ....
