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Putin to meet Pope Francis during visit to Italy
Date: 2013-11-21 18:17:43 GMT - Italy - World - SN:146 - ID:399956
ROME, Nov 21 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a brief visit to the Vatican and meet Pope Francis during his official visit to Italy on November 25-26, The Voice of Russia reported. The visit came at the invitation of ....
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Putin: Russia against Ukraine's NATO membership
Date: 2013-11-21 15:34:44 GMT - Russia - World - SN:120 - ID:399560
MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) – Russia is not against Ukraine becoming an associated EU member, but it would object if Ukraine decided to join NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. The NATO approach to Russia's borders poses a threat ....
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Obama says US will respect 'Afghan Sovereignty'
Date: 2013-11-21 13:44:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:94 - ID:399547
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama, in a letter to President Hamid Karzai, said the United States will continue to respect "Afghan sovereignty" under a new security agreement, ABC News reported Thursday. Obama also said the US ....
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Spain's King in hospital for new hip operation
Date: 2013-11-21 13:03:47 GMT - Spain - World - SN:85 - ID:399321
MADRID Nov 21 (MENA) – Spain' King Juan Carlos has been admitted to a Madrid hospital to undergo the second part of an operation on his hip, his sixth surgery in less than two years, ABC News reported. The surgery Thursday has been planned since ....
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Karzai urges Afghans to let US forces stay another decade
Date: 2013-11-21 12:57:24 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:83 - ID:399415
KABUL, Afghanistan Nov 21 (MENA) – The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has reluctantly urged his countrymen to let US forces stay on in the country for another decade, saying that although there is no trust between him and Washington, a small ....
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Putin, Obama to meet at G8 summit in Sochi in July 2014
Date: 2013-11-21 12:44:19 GMT - Russia - World - SN:79 - ID:399390
MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) - Moscow and Washington have not yet discussed US President Barack Obama's visit to Russia, although Obama is expected to take part in a G8 summit in Sochi in early July, presidential aide Yury Ushakov said, The Voice of Russia ....
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Eskandar discusses cooperation vistas with several states' ministers
Date: 2013-11-21 11:46:25 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:64 - ID:399063
CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) – Egyptian Minister of State for Environmental Affairs Laila Eskander – currently in Poland to attend the COP19 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – will hold tete-a -tete talks with several ministers, including ....
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UNAMID welcomes Sudan-LJM agreement
Date: 2013-11-21 11:43:52 GMT - Sudan - World - SN:63 - ID:399108
KHARTOUM, Nov 21 (MENA) – The head of the African Union United Nation mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Mohamed Ibn Chambas welcomed the security agreement was signed in Khartoum between the Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement ....
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St Mark's Square flooded as Venice hit by of storms
Date: 2013-11-21 11:38:56 GMT - Italy - World - SN:60 - ID:399216
ROME, Nov 21 (MENA) – The Italian city of Venice has been flooded after storms and heavy rainfall that killed at least 18 people in Sardinia hit St Mark's Square, Express reported Thursday. Tourists in the canal city's public square needed their ....
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Iran FM, EU's Ashton start meeting in Geneva
Date: 2013-11-21 11:37:13 GMT - Iran - World - SN:59 - ID:399025
TEHRAN, Nov 21 (MENA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (who represents the delegations of the six world powers in the talks with Iran) started the second day of talks in Geneva on Thursday, ....
