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Gates, Panetta question Obama's Syria strategy
Date: 2013-09-18 17:16:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:117 - ID:295861
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama's first two defense secretaries questioned his Syria strategy and said they would have told him not to seek Congress' approval for a strike on Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, the USA ....
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UN inspector: Team to return to Syria within weeks
Date: 2013-09-18 16:54:09 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:113 - ID:295816
STOCKHOLM, Sept 18 (MENA) – The chief UN chemical weapons inspector says his team will return to Syria "within weeks" to complete the investigation it had started before the Aug 21 gas attack of other alleged chemical weapons attacks in the ....
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Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition -- report
Date: 2013-09-18 16:10:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:99 - ID:295505
US/Syria Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition -- report WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (MENA) - US President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to ....
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Mexico storms, landslides claim lives of 57 persons
Date: 2013-09-18 15:49:37 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:91 - ID:294873
Mexico/Storms Mexico storms, landslides claim lives of 57 persons MEXICO CITY, Sept 18 (MENA) - More than 2,000 tourists have been airlifted by the army from the Mexican resort of Acapulco following deadly floods caused by Tropical Storm ....
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Limited number of MB members stage protest outside Italian consulate in Alex.
Date: 2013-09-18 15:08:00 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:82 - ID:295578
Egypt/MB Limited number of MB members stage protest outside Italian consulate in Alex. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Sept 18 (MENA) - A limited number of members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group staged a protest outside the Italian Consulate in ....
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Taliban kill Afghan election official in Kunduz province
Date: 2013-09-18 14:12:16 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:72 - ID:295475
Afghanistan/Taliban Taliban kill Afghan election official in Kunduz province KABUL, Sept 18 (MENA) - The head of Afghanistan's electoral commission in Kunduz province has been shot dead, the BBC reported Wednesday. Amanullah Aman was shot ....
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Palestinian Amb.rejects Hamas' prevention of students to travel to Egypt to join universities
Date: 2013-09-18 14:03:12 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:68 - ID:295422
Egypt/Palestine Palestinian Amb.rejects Hamas' prevention of students to travel to Egypt to join universities CAIRO, Sept 18 (MENA) - Palestinian Ambassador in Cairo Barakat al-Farra said a decision by the Egyptian authorities to ....
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Russia’s UN envoy urges inspectors’ return to Syria
Date: 2013-09-18 13:57:41 GMT - Russia - World - SN:62 - ID:295424
Russia/UN/Politics Russia’s UN envoy urges inspectors’ return to Syria MOSCOW, Sept 18 (MENA) - Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin called for an “immediate return” of organization’s inspectors to Syria for additional investigations into ....
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Russia says UN report on Syria attack preconceived
Date: 2013-09-18 13:57:07 GMT - Russia - World - SN:61 - ID:295349
Russia/US Russia says UN report on Syria attack preconceived MOSCOW, Sept 18 (MENA) - Russia denounced UN investigators' findings on a poison gas attack in Syria as preconceived and tainted by politics on Wednesday. "We are disappointed, to ....
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Death toll from Mexico twin storms rises to 57
Date: 2013-09-18 13:23:04 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:54 - ID:295255
Mexico/Storms Death toll from Mexico twin storms rises to 57 MEXICO CITY, Sept 18 (MENA) - The death toll from the two deadly storms that struck Mexico has risen to at least 57 and swamped large swathes of the country during a three-day ....
