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Ukraine Parliament Votes to Dismiss Foreign Minister
Date: 2014-02-23 20:45:47 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:193 - ID:572649
KIEV, Feb 23 (MENA) - The Ukrainian parliament voted Sunday to dismiss the country's foreign minister, Leonid Kozhara, The Wall Street Journal reported. The decision comes as a major setback for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, whose close ally ....
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Obama's aid defends 2012 Benghazi comments
Date: 2014-02-23 20:39:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:191 - ID:572711
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (MENA) - US national security advisor and former ambassador to the UN Susan Rice conceded on Sunday that some of her statements about the attacks at the US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi in 2012 may not have been correct, ....
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Afghan soldiers die as Taliban attack checkpoint in Kunar
Date: 2014-02-23 20:33:51 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:189 - ID:572646
KABUL, Feb 23 (MENA) - Taliban fighters have killed 21 Afghan soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint in Kunar province close to Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, BBC News reported. Karzai's office said in a statement: "The Afghan president is ....
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Lagarde: IMF ready to provide assistance to Ukraine
Date: 2014-02-23 20:33:11 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:188 - ID:572647
SYDNEY, Feb 23 (MENA) - The International Monetary Fund is ready to provide financial assistance to Ukraine, Itar-Tass quoted IMF chief Christine Lagarde as saying Sunday. On the sidelines of a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank ....
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67% opposed to relaxing Japan's arms export controls: poll
Date: 2014-02-23 20:27:59 GMT - Japan - World - SN:187 - ID:572663
TOKYO, Feb 23 (MENA) - A total of 66.8 percent of respondents said they are opposed to relaxing Japan's arms export controls, said a poll conducted by Japan's Kyodo News. In turn, 25.7 percent expressed support, in a sign that many voters are ....
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Merkel calls for Britain to remain at heart of Europe
Date: 2014-02-23 20:26:40 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:185 - ID:572701
LONDON, Feb 23 (MENA) - German chancellor Angela Merkel will urge Britain to ignore the eurosceptics and stay at the heart of the EU in a speech to both houses of Parliament on Thursday, Financial Times reported Sunday. But during her one-day ....
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Man dies, 27 others hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak at NY mall
Date: 2014-02-23 20:04:04 GMT - USA - World - SN:180 - ID:572699
NEW YORK, Feb 23 (MENA) - One man has died and 27 others have been hospitalized as the result of a carbon monoxide leak at a Long Island mall in New York City, Fox News reported Sunday. Suffolk County police identified the man who died as Steven ....
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Barack Obama’s aide says introduction of Russian troops to Ukraine would be grave mistake
Date: 2014-02-23 19:49:14 GMT - Russia - World - SN:176 - ID:572595
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (MENA) - Hypothetical introduction of Russian troops in Ukraine for the alleged purpose of emplacing a government predisposed towards friendship with Russia would be “a grave mistake," U.S. national security advisor and former ....
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19 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack
Date: 2014-02-23 19:40:21 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:171 - ID:572537
KUNAR, Feb 23 (MENA) - Dozens of Afghan national soldiers and Taliban militants were killed and injured in a Taliban attack in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, Khaama News reported on Sunday. The attack took place in Ghaziabad district ....
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Ukraine will join EU, says ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko
Date: 2014-02-23 19:28:27 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:166 - ID:572527
KIEV, Feb 23 (MENA) - The former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, has been freed from prison and said that she was certain that the country would now join the EU, just hours after MPs voted to oust President Viktor Yanukovych. "Our ....
