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French president visits Netherlands
Date: 2014-01-20 09:24:11 GMT - France - World - SN:41 - ID:509081
PARIS, Jan 20 (MENA) - French President François Hollande left for Netherlands on Monday on an official visit, the first by a French leader in 14 years, the Elysee Palace reported. Hollande will meet king Willem-Alexander and then move on to the ....
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Blast near Pakistani army headquarters kills 4
Date: 2014-01-20 06:47:38 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:15 - ID:508744
ISLAMABAD, Jan 20 (MENA) - A suicide bomber blew himself up not far from Pakistan's military headquarters Monday, killing four people a day after a Taliban bombing inside an army compound in the northwest of the country killed at least 20 troops, ....
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6.3 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's north island
Date: 2014-01-20 06:21:12 GMT - New Zealand - World - SN:9 - ID:508709
WELLINGTON, Jan 20 (MENA) - A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck the lower half of New Zealand's north island, ABC news reported. The quake hit 38km north northeast of the town of Masterton, near the southern tip of the north island about ....
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Congressional leaders suggest earlier Snowden link to Russia
Date: 2014-01-20 05:47:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:5 - ID:508672
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (MENA) - The heads of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees suggested on Sunday that Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, might have been working for Russian spy services while he was employed ....
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Obama says marijuana ‘no more dangerous than alcohol’
Date: 2014-01-19 22:30:50 GMT - USA - World - SN:202 - ID:508626
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (MENA) - Marijuana, which is still placed in the same category as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms by the federal government, is no more dangerous than alcohol, President Barack Obama said in an interview published ....
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Thousands protest against abortion in Paris
Date: 2014-01-19 22:18:58 GMT - France - World - SN:189 - ID:508515
PARIS, Jan 19 (MENA) - Thousands of French people staged on Sunday a rally against abortion in Paris on the eve of a parliamentary debate on a bill that would make terminations of pregnancy easier. Organizers claimed 40,000 people took part. ....
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Injection execution triggers controversy in US -- report
Date: 2014-01-19 20:40:41 GMT - USA - World - SN:191 - ID:508526
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (MENA) – The execution of US citizen Dennis McGuire, 53, by lethal injections became the longest in the US state of Ohio since those controversial lethal injections, reportedly taking at least 25 minutes for the untested, two-drug ....
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Joblessness drove most Nigerian politicians into politics - President Jonathan
Date: 2014-01-19 19:47:42 GMT - Nigeria - World - SN:187 - ID:508492
ABUJA, Jan 19 (MENA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said that over 50 percent of those who call themselves politicians "today were not supposed to be in politics." "Most of them opted to become politicians because they had no job and ....
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Britain First stages protest to expell Brotherhood
Date: 2014-01-19 18:22:35 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:178 - ID:508308
LONDON, Jan 19 (MENA) - The "Britain First" movement has staged on Sunday a protest in front of the media office of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in London. The protesters called for expelling all members of the terrorist group. "We don't ....
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Lavrov, Kerry discuss over phone preparations for Geneva 2 Conf.
Date: 2014-01-19 17:10:29 GMT - Russia - World - SN:162 - ID:508219
MOSCOW, Jan 19 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergy Lavrov discussed with his US counterpart John Kerry preparations for holding the Geneva 2 Conference. Today's phone call was held following a previous one which took place between the two sides ....
