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North Korean Leader checks on ski resort progress
Date: 2013-12-15 09:52:33 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:29 - ID:440623
PYONGYANG, Dec 15 (MENA) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has visited a ski resort under construction to check on its progress, just days after he had his uncle executed, Yonhap reported Sunday. The young leader praised soldiers and laborers for ....
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Seoul, Tokyo to hold strategic dialogue to mend ties next week
Date: 2013-12-15 08:48:57 GMT - south korea - World - SN:22 - ID:440449
SEOUL, Dec 15 (MENA) - South Korea and Japan plan to hold a strategic dialogue next week to discuss ways to mend their ties after Japan's territorial claims over South Korea's Dokdo islets and other history disputes drove a wedge between the ....
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Worker dies in stadium fall in Brazil
Date: 2013-12-15 07:22:27 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:16 - ID:440427
BRAZILIA, Dec 15 (MENA) - A worker has been killed in Brazil after falling from the roof of a stadium being built in the Amazon region for the 2014 football World Cup, the BBC reported. Marcleudo de Melo Ferreira, 22, died in hospital in Manaus ....
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11 bodies found in indigenous community in Mexico
Date: 2013-12-15 06:50:11 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:8 - ID:440412
MEXICO CITY, Dec 15 (MENA) - Authorities in southern Mexico have found the bodies of 11 people in an indigenous community that has been troubled by violence and land disputes, the ABC news reported. Oaxaca state prosecutor Joaquin Carrillo Ruiz ....
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US official urges Somalia to protect human rights
Date: 2013-12-14 21:40:03 GMT - Somalia - World - SN:129 - ID:440285
MOGADISHU, Dec 14 (MENA) - The top United States State Department official for Africa urged Saturday Somalia's government to do more to protect its most vulnerable people, especially women, and to respect the rule of law, the ABC News reported. ....
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Oil bunkering, smuggling, piracy cost Nigeria $1.5 bln monthly -- official
Date: 2013-12-14 21:37:46 GMT - Nigeria - World - SN:127 - ID:440260
ABUJA, Dec 14 (MENA) – Nigeria is losing about 250 billion Naira ($1.5 billion) monthly due to maritime crimes, Air Vice Marshal Eko Osim was quoted by local media as saying Saturday. Smuggling, piracy and bunkering are top on the list of the ....
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Iran cancels Pakistan gas pipeline loan
Date: 2013-12-14 19:52:29 GMT - Iran - World - SN:112 - ID:440032
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (MENA) - Iran has canceled a planned $500 million loan to Pakistan to build part of a pipeline to bring natural gas from the Islamic Republic, the ABC News reported Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Ali Majedi said Iran has no ....
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Nairobi bus hit by deadly grenade attack
Date: 2013-12-14 17:42:48 GMT - Kenya - World - SN:96 - ID:440019
NAIROBI, Dec 14 (MENA) - At least four people have been killed and several injured by a grenade attack on a bus in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, the interior ministry says. The blast hit the 32-seater bus near the Eastleigh suburb, which is home ....
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1 wounded in us school shooting, suspect dead
Date: 2013-12-14 16:04:11 GMT - USA - World - SN:82 - ID:439712
COLORADO, United States, Dec 14 (MENA) - US police said Saturday an 18-year-old Colorado student shot and wounded a schoolmate on Friday before taking his own life, the Voice of America reported. Police first said two students were wounded, but ....
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S.Korea summons its business people from China
Date: 2013-12-14 15:31:29 GMT - North Korea - World - SN:75 - ID:439791
PYONG YANG, Dec 14 (MENA) - North Korean business people are being recalled from China following the execution of top official, Chang Song-thaek, the BBC reported quoting a South Korean report. Leader Kim Jong-un may be purging associates of ....
