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Lavrov: Russia to use all methods to protect Russians abroad
Date: 2014-03-20 09:27:12 GMT - Russia - World - SN:41 - ID:620062
MOSCOW, March 20 (MENA) - Moscow would continue to use "political, diplomatic and legal methods" to protect Russians abroad, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as quoted by Novosti. Lavrov said, in a meeting of Foreign Ministry representatives ....
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Taliban suicide attack on Afghanistan police station kills 11
Date: 2014-03-20 09:25:25 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:40 - ID:620047
KABUL, March 20 (MENA) - Taliban fighters have killed at least 11 people and wounded 22 in a suicide bomb attack and gun battle at a police station in Afghanistan's eastern Jalalabad city, ABC News reported Thursday. Thursday's attack in one of ....
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UN chief heads to Russia for talks with Putin on Ukraine crisis
Date: 2014-03-20 08:02:21 GMT - Russia - World - SN:27 - ID:619976
MOSCOW, March 20 (MENA) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon departs on Wednesday for Moscow and Kiev, where he will hold talks with Russian and Ukrainian leaders and push for a peaceful resolution of the crisis over Crimea, the United Nations ....
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UN refugee agency: Syrians dead in Greek sinking
Date: 2014-03-20 07:40:17 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:22 - ID:619932
GENEVA, March 20 (MENA) - The United Nations refugee agency said the seven migrants who drowned near a Greek island Tuesday were Syrian refugees, and renewed a call on the European Union to improve coordination in dealing with people fleeing the ....
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Kerry protests remarks by Israeli defense chief -spokeswoman
Date: 2014-03-20 07:36:15 GMT - USA - World - SN:21 - ID:619926
WASHINGTON, March 20 (MENA) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to protest remarks by Israel's defense minister that portrayed the United States as weak in its handling of nuclear talks ....
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Afghan police station attack leaves at least four dead
Date: 2014-03-20 07:22:55 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:19 - ID:619897
ISLAMABAD, March 20 (MENA) - At least four people have died after a suspected suicide attack on a police station in eastern Afghanistan, BBC reported. Police officials in the city of Jalalabad say gun battles started after a "multi-pronged" ....
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National Security Council acting head: Ukraine decides to quit CIS
Date: 2014-03-20 06:57:13 GMT - Russia - World - SN:15 - ID:619873
MOSCOW, March 20 (MENA) - Ukraine has announced that it is quitting the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose association of former Soviet republics, Itar Tass reported Thursday. “The decision was made at a meeting of the Ukrainian ....
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NATO suspends cooperation with Russia to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons
Date: 2014-03-20 06:48:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:619822
WASHINGTON, March 20 (MENA) - Russia’s advances in Ukraine are the greatest threat to European security since the Cold War,and it is a wake up call for European countries to boost defense expenditure, NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen ....
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Australia reports possible debris from Malaysian plane in Indian Ocean
Date: 2014-03-20 05:38:58 GMT - Australia - World - SN:7 - ID:619806
SYDNEY, March 20 (MENA) - Search aircraft are investigating two objects spotted by satellite floating in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia that could be debris from a Malaysian jetliner missing for 12 days with 239 people on board, BBC ....
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Obama: U.S. Won’t Take Military Action in Ukraine
Date: 2014-03-20 05:00:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:4 - ID:619792
WASHINGTON, March 20 (MENA) - President Barack Obama said direct American military involvement in Ukraine is off the table President Barack Obama said , as quoted by the NBC news network, that the U.S. would not become involved in a military ....
