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Iran sending warships close to US borders
Date: 2014-02-08 19:52:52 GMT - Iran - World - SN:119 - ID:544523
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (MENA) - A senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday his country has sent several warships to the Atlantic Ocean, close to US maritime borders for the first time. The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet Admiral Afshin Rezayee ....
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Suspected militants killed in Dagestan raid
Date: 2014-02-08 19:52:15 GMT - Russia - World - SN:118 - ID:544520
MOSCOW, Feb 8 (MENA) - Russian Special Forces killed five suspected militants and took another into custody Saturday during an assault on a house in the volatile Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a Russian security source told CNN. Russia launched a ....
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British Immigration Minister resigns after employing cleaner working in UK illegally
Date: 2014-02-08 18:06:27 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:92 - ID:544287
LONDON, Feb 8 (MENA) - British Immigration Minister Mark Harper has resigned Saturday over his employment of a cleaner in the UK illegally. The Prime Minister has accepted his resignation in an exchange of letters between Harper and David ....
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Iran protests to US against illusive approach toward Iran
Date: 2014-02-08 15:37:08 GMT - Iran - World - SN:69 - ID:543985
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (MENA) - Iran on Saturday protested to the US against unrealistic and illusive approach toward Iran, IRNA news agency reported. They should try to win trust of Iranian public opinion over their hostile approach in the past several ....
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Why is the Canadian rock band Skinny Puppy invoicing the Pentagon for $666,000?
Date: 2014-02-08 15:03:42 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:65 - ID:543986
LONDON, Feb 8 (MENA) - How would you react if you discovered your music was being used as an instrument of torture? I like to think that if, in some mad parallel universe, my cat-wail of a singing voice was being piped into prison cells to torment ....
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Train derails In French Alps killing two
Date: 2014-02-08 14:34:14 GMT - France - World - SN:58 - ID:543923
PARIS, Feb 8 (MENA) - Two people have been killed and nine injured injured after a train derailed in the Alps in southern France. The train came off the tracks after hitting a rock that had fallen from the surrounding hills, according to ....
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Hundreds wounded in Bosnia unrest
Date: 2014-02-08 08:12:54 GMT - Bosnia and Herzegovina - World - SN:14 - ID:543178
SARAJEVO, Feb 8 (MENA) - Hundreds of people have been injured in three days of protests over high unemployment and perceived inability of politicians to improve the situation, the BBC reported. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quell ....
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Ninth MP quits over Turkish graft scandal
Date: 2014-02-07 20:32:12 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:122 - ID:542910
ANKARA, Feb 7 (MENA) – A Turkish Parliament Member from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party quit on Friday in protest at his handling of a major corruption probe, the ninth such departure since the scandal broke in December, local ....
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Mass hunger strike under way in Georgian prison
Date: 2014-02-07 20:30:35 GMT - Georgia - World - SN:121 - ID:542883
TBILISI, Feb 7 (MENA) - Some 1,000 inmates in a penitentiary in Georgia's western Imereti Province have launched a hunger strike, protesting what they call abusive prison conditions, The Voice of Russia reported Wednesday. Georgia's minister of ....
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Joe Biden: No reason not to run for president in 2016
Date: 2014-02-07 20:13:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:118 - ID:542864
WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (MENA) – US Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that he cannot think of a reason to not run for president in 2016, but one way or another, he will decide by summer 2015 whether to wage another campaign for the White House. ....
