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Oil tanker explodes off the coast of Japan
Date: 2014-05-29 05:38:53 GMT - Japan - World - SN:39 - ID:749639
TOKYO, May 29 (MENA) - A Japanese oil tanker exploded Thursday off the country’s southwest coast near Himeji port, leaving one of the eight people aboard missing, ABC news reported quoting the coast guard. Four others were severely ....
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Security Council discusses developments in Ukraine
Date: 2014-05-29 05:37:55 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:38 - ID:749623
NEW YORK, May 29 (MENA) – The UN Security Council held Wednesday night an open session to discuss developments in Ukraine after the presidential election. Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, briefed the 15-member body ....
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John Kerry: Snowden is no patriot
Date: 2014-05-29 05:33:38 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:749620
WASHINGTON, May 29 (MENA) - Edward Snowden continues to haunt the Obama administration — and it’s evident from the official pushback that there is little officials can do beyond professing annoyance, The Wall Street Journal reported. US Secretary ....
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Putin warns of reviewing partnership with Kiev unless repays gas debts
Date: 2014-05-28 18:23:34 GMT - Russia - World - SN:151 - ID:748944
MOSCOW, May 28 (MENA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country's approach to gas cooperation with Kiev was based not only on partnership, but also on friendship, but warned that Moscow may review its approach, RIA Novosti ....
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Obama outlines foreign policy vision
Date: 2014-05-28 17:37:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:146 - ID:748943
WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) – US President Barack Obama has provided the broad outlines of the American foreign policy, during his second term, in conjunction with announcing the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan over the next two ....
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Top US commander: Obama ended Afghan uncertainty
Date: 2014-05-28 14:23:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:105 - ID:748586
WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - The top US and coalition commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's decision to keep about 10,000 American troops in the country past 2014 has eliminated any uncertainty Afghans may have had ....
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France advised its nationals of limiting their movement in Egypt on 3rd day of balloting
Date: 2014-05-28 11:31:15 GMT - France - World - SN:65 - ID:747411
PARIS, May 28 (MENA) -France has advised its nationals, currently staying in Egypt, to limit their movement after the extension of voting in Egypt's presidential polls for a third day. The French Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International ....
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U.S. Troops to leave Afghanistan by end of 2016
Date: 2014-05-28 10:51:55 GMT - USA - World - SN:41 - ID:747922
WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - President Obama, declaring that it was “time to turn the page on a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” announced on Tuesday that he planned to withdraw the last ....
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Thailand's Military says many detainees freed
Date: 2014-05-28 08:43:14 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:26 - ID:747518
BANGKOK, May 28 (MENA) - Thailand's army says it has now released 124 people, including politicians and activists, who were taken into custody after the coup. Conditions for the release appear to include agreeing to avoid political activity and ....
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Philippine Refugee Tent Fire Kills Mother, 5 Kids
Date: 2014-05-28 06:50:28 GMT - Philippines - World - SN:13 - ID:747415
MANILA, May 28 (MENA) - n overnight fire razed a tent used as a temporary shelter by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, killing a woman and five of her children, including a 4-month-old girl, officials in a central Philippine city devastated by the ....
