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  • Syria conflict: Geneva peace talks 'best chance' - US

    Date: 2013-11-25 19:36:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:169 - ID:406820

    WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (MENA) - Syrian peace talks planned for January are the "best opportunity" to form a transitional government, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said. He was speaking shortly after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced ....

  • Hague to Israel: Do not undermine Iranian nuclear deal

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:57:10 GMT - palestine - World - SN:154 - ID:406653

    LONDON, Nov 25 (MENA) - Israel should avoid taking any action that would undermine the interim nuclear agreement reached between Iran and world powers, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. "We would discourage anybody in the ....

  • Brahimi says final list of participants in Geneva II conference on Syria not completed

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:22:43 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:149 - ID:406601

    GENEVA, Nov 25 (MENA) – UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said on Monday that discussions are underway on the list of participants in the Geneva II Conference on Syria, slated for coming January. Brahimi made the remarks following a ....

  • German minister urges US to restore trust to ties

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:20:22 GMT - Germany - World - SN:147 - ID:406520

    BERLIN, Nov 25 (MENA) - Germany's interior minister is calling for an American effort to restore trust to trans-Atlantic ties as he meets a visiting US senator following allegations of massive National Security Agency surveillance, ABC News ....

  • US-Iran thaw began with months of secret meetings – Paper 2 last Washington

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:02:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:146 - ID:406595

    The efforts to conceal the talks continued during the formal nuclear negotiations in Geneva this month when the two key US officials involved, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns and Jake Sullivan, Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy ....

  • US-Iran thaw began with months of secret meetings -- Paper

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:02:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:145 - ID:406531

    WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (MENA) - In mid-March, a small team of US officials boarded a military plane and flew to Oman on a diplomatic mission so sensitive — and risky — that only President Obama and his closest advisors knew about it, Los Angeles Times ....

  • Brahimi holds press conference on Geneva II conference

    Date: 2013-11-25 16:20:06 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:136 - ID:406295

    GENEVA, Nov 25 (MENA) - United Nations and Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi will hold a press conference Monday evening at the UN's headquarters in Geneva. The press conference will follow a meeting with US Under Secretary of ....

  • China summons Japan ambassador over air zone protests

    Date: 2013-11-25 15:02:06 GMT - China - World - SN:120 - ID:406089

    BEIJING, Nov 25 (MENA) - China summoned the Japanese ambassador over Tokyo's response to Beijing's new "air defence identification zone" which covers islands claimed by both sides, the foreign ministry said on Monday. "Officials of the Chinese ....

  • Ukraine protest: Police clash with pro-EU crowd in Kiev

    Date: 2013-11-25 13:59:53 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:104 - ID:406142

    KIEV, Nov 25 (MENA) - Ukrainian police have used tear gas in fresh clashes with pro-EU activists in the heart of Ukraine's capital Kiev. Reports say some protesters tried to enter the government building but were pushed back by police, the BBC ....

  • Turkey repeats same mistakes with Arabs - Algerian newspaper

    Date: 2013-11-25 12:28:21 GMT - Algeria - World - SN:83 - ID:405883

    ALGEIRS, Nov 25 (MENA) - Algerian newspaper Al-Fajr said that Turkey repeats the same mistakes with the Arabs, adding that after its role in Syria and its attempts to destroy the country, it refused to recognize the new power in Egypt. In an ....

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