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S-300 missile systems to be delivered to Kazakhstan
Date: 2014-01-31 11:56:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:37 - ID:530128
MOSCOW, Jan 31 (MENA) - Kazakhstan's armed forces will receive enough S-300 antiaircraft missile systems this year to protect the air space, Itar Tass quoted Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying Friday. "An important element of our ....
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New deputy head of UN mission in Libya appointed
Date: 2014-01-30 18:56:04 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:136 - ID:529397
NEW YORK, Jan 30 (MENA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Mauritanian Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed as deputy head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), UN spokesman Faraht Haq said on Thursday. Ould Cheikh will also ....
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Hollande says 'No' to treaty change with UK before the EU referendum
Date: 2014-01-30 18:19:56 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:131 - ID:529333
LONDON, Jan 30 (MENA) – British Prime Minister David Cameron will have to wait years to re-write the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union, the Daily Telegraph quoted French President Francois Hollande as having said. Hollande's ....
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Theresa 'pulled rank' over Cameron in migrant curbs row -- newspaper
Date: 2014-01-30 15:28:47 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:108 - ID:529002
LONDON, Jan 30 (MENA) – Home Secretary's aides decline to deny that she intervened to stop Number 10 negotiating a deal to end Tory revolt over Immigration Bill, The Guardian reported. Theresa May is said to have “pulled rank” over David Cameron ....
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37 Taliban militants killed, 5 others injured in Afghan operations
Date: 2014-01-30 15:26:02 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:107 - ID:529098
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan 30 (MENA) – At least 37 Taliban militants were killed during joint military operations by Afghan national security forces, Khaama Press reported. The interior ministry of Afghanistan said in a statement the operations ....
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Japan keen on promoting ties with Libya
Date: 2014-01-30 15:13:43 GMT - Libya - World - SN:101 - ID:529015
TRIPOLI, Jan 30 (MENA) - Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan met with the deputy Japanese foreign minister on the sidelines of the 22nd summit of the African Union (AU) conference, which kicked off in the Ethiopia capital, Addis Ababa, on ....
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Japan, US affirm cooperation on N. Korean abduction issue
Date: 2014-01-30 15:06:37 GMT - Japan - World - SN:100 - ID:529060
TOKYO, Jan 30 (MENA) - Japan and the United States affirmed continued cooperation in resolving the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, the Foreign Ministry said. Junichi Ihara, director general of the ....
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Ukranian oppostion rejects protester amnesty law
Date: 2014-01-30 13:55:07 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:86 - ID:528956
KIEV, Jan 30 (MENA) – Ukraine’s parliament has passed an amnesty for anti-government activists jailed during recent public unrest, but opposition politicians Thursday rejected the initiative, describing it as an attempt to undermine their cause, RIA ....
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Egyptian pavilion at Slovakian international fair opens
Date: 2014-01-30 11:34:10 GMT - Austria - World - SN:50 - ID:528581
VIENNA, Jan 30 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador to Slovakia Ihab Nasr opened Thursday the Egyptian pavilion at International Fair of Travel ITF Slovakia tour in the presence of tourist adviser to Austria and Slovakia Nabila el-Banhawi. The fair, which ....
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Blair urges int'l community to support current Egyptian government
Date: 2014-01-30 11:09:21 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:43 - ID:528427
LONDON, Jan 30 (MENA) - The International Quartet envoy to the Middle East peace process Tony Blair has urged the international community to support the current Egyptian government. In statements to Sky News Arabia, Blair, the former British ....
