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Swiss man flies over Japan's Mount Fuji
Date: 2013-11-07 05:51:31 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:4 - ID:374187
BERN, Nov 7 (MENA) - A former Swiss air force pilot flew circles around Japan’s most revered summit, Mount Fuji, nine times last week, Fox news reported. Jetman’ Rossy built a custom jetpack system consisting of four engines modified from ....
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Berlusconi family 'feel like the Jews under Hitler'
Date: 2013-11-06 19:56:28 GMT - Italy - World - SN:148 - ID:373990
ROME, Nov 6 (MENA) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said his children "feel like the families of Jews... under Hitler's regime", the BBC News reported Wednesday. In an interview for Italian television, Berlusconi, who claims ....
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Japanese Diet committee OKs bill to launch U.S.-style NSC
Date: 2013-11-06 19:54:24 GMT - Japan - World - SN:146 - ID:374055
TOKYO, Nov 6 (MENA) - Japan moved closer Wednesday to creating a US-style National Security Council as a Diet committee approved a bill to set up the new framework for gathering information and speeding up decision-making in diplomacy and defense, ....
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Turkey's Erdogan hopes for faster EU accession process
Date: 2013-11-06 19:24:54 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:142 - ID:373993
SOPHIA, Nov 6 (MENA) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country is awaiting a faster EU accession process, Sophia News Agency reported Wednesday. Erdogan’s comment came after Turkey began on Tuesday its 22nd round ....
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Berlusconi: My woes like Jews had under Hitler
Date: 2013-11-06 19:18:05 GMT - Italy - World - SN:136 - ID:373994
ROME, Nov 6 (MENA) - Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has likened Jewish suffering in Hitler's Germany to what his family feels about his judicial woes, triggering criticism from Italian politicians and Jewish leaders that he is trivializing ....
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Dutch government taken to court over NSA links
Date: 2013-11-06 18:45:19 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:133 - ID:373793
HAGUE, Nov 6, (MENA) - An alliance of privacy advocates, lawyers and journalists is taking the Dutch government to court over its links to overseas intelligence agencies, ABC news reported. The alliance said Wednesday it is asking the Hague ....
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Greece paralyzed by nationwide strike
Date: 2013-11-06 18:44:30 GMT - Greece - World - SN:132 - ID:373866
ATHENS, Nov 6 (MENA) - The public and the private sectors in Greece are paralyzed Wednesday as trade unions have called a 24-hour nationwide strike, Sophia News Agency reported. The strike is in protest against new tax legislation and fears of ....
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Moscow ready to host negotiations between Syrian regime, opposition: diplomat
Date: 2013-11-06 18:30:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:127 - ID:373865
MOSCOW, Nov 6 (MENA) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Wednesday that his country is ready to host negotiations between the Syrian regime and the opposition with international participation. Bogdanov stated that he met a ....
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Russia, Nicaragua eye booting economic ties
Date: 2013-11-06 18:22:41 GMT - Nicaragua - World - SN:121 - ID:373867
MOSCOW, Nov 6 (MENA) - Russia and Nicaragua have good potential for diversifying trade and economic relations, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told an intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical ....
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Iraq attacks kill 10 people, as 2013 toll tops 5,500
Date: 2013-11-06 14:39:43 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:373304
WASHINGTON Nov 6 (MENA) – Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people, including eight security personnel, officials said, the latest casualties in a country-wide spike in violence that the government has failed to stem, Global Post reported. Iraq is mired ....
