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Market fire in China's Shenzhen kills 16
Date: 2013-12-11 06:30:37 GMT - China - World - SN:8 - ID:433784
BEIJING, Dec 11 (MENA) - A fire in a farmers' fruit market in south China's Shenzhen has killed at least 16 people and injured at least three, the BBC reported quoting officials The fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday and spread to an ....
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Seven dead as riots continue in Argentine
Date: 2013-12-11 06:23:12 GMT - Argentina - World - SN:6 - ID:433776
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 11 (MENA) - Outbreaks of looting have spread across Argentina as mobs take advantage of strikes by police demanding pay raises to match inflation, Fox news reported. Videos show people shattering glass doors and hauling out ....
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Environment minister partakes in UNESCO workshop
Date: 2013-12-10 22:08:04 GMT - France - World - SN:165 - ID:433694
PARIS, Dec 10 (MENA) - Environment Minister Laila Iskandar participated on Tuesday in a workshop held at UNESCO premises in Paris under the rubric "Women's work in the field of engineering." In a keynote speech during the workshop, Iskandar ....
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Egypt to take part in energy conference in Brussels tomorrow
Date: 2013-12-10 17:31:56 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:123 - ID:433033
CAIRO, Dec 10 (MENA) - Egypt will take part in a conference on energy to kick off in Brussels, Belgium, on December 11. The conference will focus on means to confront an expected energy shortage in the Mediterranean region in light of a decreased ....
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Egypt's amb. in Moscow meets Russian tourism official
Date: 2013-12-10 15:33:16 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:108 - ID:433008
CAIRO, Dec 10 (MENA) - Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Mohamed El-Badry held a meeting on Tuesday with Head of the Russia Federal Agency for Tourism Alexander Radkov to discuss means of boosting joint cooperation between Egypt and Russia in the ....
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Afghan President lashes out at US 'threats'
Date: 2013-12-10 15:28:03 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:104 - ID:433002
KABUL, Dec 10 (MENA) - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the United States, accusing it of making threats in the dispute over an agreement to keep US troops in the country beyond 2014, ABC News reported Tuesday. In an interview ....
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500 of world's leading authors condemn scale of state surveillance
Date: 2013-12-10 14:30:18 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:97 - ID:432806
LONDON, Dec 10 (MENA) - More than 500 of the world's leading authors have condemned the scale of state surveillance, warning spy agencies are undermining democracy, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. In a statement signed by writers from 81 ....
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Pope supports appeal to end 'scandal of hunger'
Date: 2013-12-10 14:23:49 GMT - Italy - World - SN:93 - ID:432898
VATICAN CITY, Dec 10 (MENA) - In a video message released Monday evening, Pope Francis put his full support behind a global campaign, launched by Caritas Internationalis, which seeks to end world hunger by 2025, the Vatican Radio said ....
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OPCW chief urges countries to ratify Convention on Chemical Weapons
Date: 2013-12-10 14:01:22 GMT - Norway - World - SN:88 - ID:432791
OSLO, Dec 10 (MENA) - The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has called on late countries to ratify the Convention on Chemical Weapons. OPCW Director General Ahmet Uzumcu, in his speech during Nobel Peace Prize award ....
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Obama eulogizes Mandela as "great liberator''
Date: 2013-12-10 13:17:12 GMT - South Africa - World - SN:82 - ID:432755
PRETORIA, Dec 10 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama eulogized Nelson Mandela as "the last great liberator of the 20th Century'' as tens of thousands of South Africans, joyously cheering and singing despite a cold rain, mourned the passing and ....
