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Pakistani police stop anti-drone protesters from halting NATO supply trucks
Date: 2013-11-25 21:23:03 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:191 - ID:406896
ISLAMABAD, Nov 25 (MENA) - Pakistani police have intervened to prevent activists who were protesting US drone strikes from halting NATO troop supply trucks traveling to and from Afghanistan, FOX News reported on Monday. Police officer Behram ....
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Number of adolescents with HIV jumps by one third: WHO 3 last Geneva
Date: 2013-11-25 21:18:25 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:189 - ID:406931
The data was issued as the WHO released its first adolescent-specific care guidelines ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. "Adolescents face difficult and often confusing emotional and social pressures as they grow from children into adults," ....
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Number of adolescents with HIV jumps by one third: WHO 2 Geneva
Date: 2013-11-25 21:17:00 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:188 - ID:406930
In addition, many of those born with the virus or infected at birth in sub-Saharan Africa are becoming adolescents. In Asia, meanwhile, young drug-users were the worst affected. The WHO said that the failure to provide proper ....
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Number of adolescents with HIV jumps by one third: WHO
Date: 2013-11-25 21:13:39 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:187 - ID:406890
GENEVA, Nov 25 (MENA) - The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade, the UN's health agency said Monday, blaming gaps in care programmes. "More than two million adolescents between the ages of ....
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Iran breakthrough deserves a chance …. 2 last London
Date: 2013-11-25 21:09:27 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:186 - ID:406914
The Geneva deal does not fully resolve the stand-off. It is an interim pact whose main effect is to halt Iran’s nuclear activities for six months. This is important. The Iranian nuclear programme was, until today, developing at considerable speed ....
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Iran breakthrough deserves a chance: paper
Date: 2013-11-25 21:06:41 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:185 - ID:406805
LONDON, Nov 25 (MENA) - A recently-reached nuclear agreement deserves a chance as it is a ray of light that pierces the gloom left by years of US-led military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Financial Times said Monday. A decade ago the US ....
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Putin, Pope back negotiated solution to Syria conflict
Date: 2013-11-25 20:54:24 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:182 - ID:406892
VATICAN CITY, Nov 25 (MENA) - The Vatican said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis on Monday discussed the need for talks to resolve the Syria conflict, as international officials met in Geneva to discuss a date for a peace ....
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Larijani: Iran, Lebanon enjoy similar views on regional issues
Date: 2013-11-25 20:52:31 GMT - Iran - World - SN:181 - ID:406889
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (MENA) - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined Tehran’s friendly approach towards the Muslim and Arab states, and said Iran and Lebanon share identical views on the regional developments, Fars news agency reported on ....
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Corruption hobbles development, generates other crimes - top UN official
Date: 2013-11-25 20:51:37 GMT - Austria - World - SN:180 - ID:406898
VIENNA, Nov 25 (MENA) - The world's largest biennial gathering of delegates in the global fight against corruption opened in Panama with the United Nations top crime fighter warning that the scourge not only hobbles sustainable development but ....
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UN Security Council condemns attack on UNAMID peacekeepers
Date: 2013-11-25 20:10:12 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:174 - ID:406791
NEW YORK, Nov 25 (MENA) - The UN Security Council condemned Monday 'in strongest terms' the latest attacks against UNAMID peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region, which left a peacekeeper dead, the UN News Center reported. On Sunday, an ....