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  • Ukrainian president must resign if agreement with EU is not signed - opposition says

    Date: 2013-09-22 20:33:53 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:165 - ID:302481

    Russia/Ukraine Ukrainian president must resign if agreement with EU is not signed - opposition says KIEV, Sept 22 (MENA) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich must step down in case the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European ....

  • Merkel wins easy re-election

    Date: 2013-09-22 20:31:28 GMT - Germany - World - SN:164 - ID:302427

    Germany/Elections Merkel wins easy re-election BERLIN, Sept 22 (MENA) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a clear election victory on Sunday, granting her a third term, Der Spiegel reported. Results show that she may ....

  • Japan mulls sending SDF staff to help get rid of Syria's chemical weapons

    Date: 2013-09-22 20:28:58 GMT - Japan - World - SN:163 - ID:302431

    Japan/Syria Japan mulls sending SDF staff to help get rid of Syria's chemical weapons TOKYO, Sept 22 (MENA) - The Japanese government said Sunday that it is mulling sending Self-Defense Force (SDF) to help get rid of Syria's chemical ....

  • Lavrov, Kerry hold phone call on Syria

    Date: 2013-09-22 19:05:25 GMT - Russia - World - SN:144 - ID:302306

    Russia/US Lavrov, Kerry hold phone call on Syria MOSCOW, Sept 22 (MENA) - Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks by telephone with US Secretary State John Kerry on Sunday over international efforts to implement the Syrian ....

  • Russia ready to allocate its military, police for security of UN experts in Syria - Lavrov

    Date: 2013-09-22 17:54:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:129 - ID:302164

    Russia/Politics Russia ready to allocate its military and police for security of UN experts in Syria - Lavrov MOSCOW, Sept 22 (MENA) - Russia is ready to allocate its military and police for assuring security of the UN experts working in ....

  • Norwegian FM condemns Kenyan shopping mall attack

    Date: 2013-09-22 13:39:52 GMT - Norway - World - SN:55 - ID:301743

    OSLO, Sept 22 (MENA) - Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth condemned on Sunday the terrorist attack targeting a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital. Masked gunmen stormed into a fancy, crowded mall in Nairobi on Saturday and shot dead at least ....

  • Rain pummels Mexican coast; thousands stranded as death toll rises

    Date: 2013-09-22 13:14:45 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:53 - ID:301610

    MEXICO CITY, Sept 22 (MENA) - More rain lashed Mexico's northwest coast on Thursday, prompting evacuations and adding to flash floods that have created chaos across the country and killed at least 97 people, NBC reported Sunday. In the Pacific ....

  • Church bomb in Pakistan kills at least 55, including women and children

    Date: 2013-09-22 12:51:13 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:43 - ID:301520

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 22 (MENA) - A suicide bomb attack on a church killed at least 55 people as parishioners left the building Sunday, officials said, in what is the first major attack on Pakistan's Christian community. The rapidly-rising death toll ....

  • Typhoon alert closes schools in southeast China

    Date: 2013-09-22 12:49:07 GMT - China - World - SN:41 - ID:301504

    BEIJING, Sept 22 (MENA) - The Chinese authorities have suspended classes after a powerful typhoon hit China's southeastern coast on Sunday, disrupting air traffic. Super Typhoon Usagi was monitored 404 km southeast of Hong Kong at 8 a.m. Sunday, ....

  • At least 52 killed in suicide bombing of Pakistan church

    Date: 2013-09-22 12:11:10 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:33 - ID:301318

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 22 (MENA) - A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 52 people and wounded over 100 Sunday, officials said, in one of the worst assaults on the country's Christian minority in years, Fox ....

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