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Brazil's Silva denounces detention in corruption probe
Date: 2016-03-05 12:09:03 GMT - Brazil - World - SN:41 - ID:4447341
BRASILIA, March 5 (MENA) - Brazilian police questioned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for about four hours in an investigation into a sprawling corruption case involving state-run oil company Petrobras that has ensnared some of the ....
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EU-Turkey summit aims at solutions to immigration crisis - French min.
Date: 2016-03-05 11:32:23 GMT - France - World - SN:38 - ID:4446613
PARIS, March 5 (MENA) – French State Minister for European Affairs Harlem Désir said the EU-Turkey summit due to be held on Monday in Brussels is meant to reach an agreement on the EU stand on the immigration crisis. In statements to Europe 1 ....
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Russia to send aircraft carrier to Mediterranean in summer
Date: 2016-03-05 09:36:47 GMT - Russia - World - SN:23 - ID:4446273
MOSCOW, March 5 (MENA) - Russia intends to send a heavy aircraft carrier (Admiral Kuznetsov) to the Mediterranean in the coming summer, according to a Russian military source. The aircraft is decided to join the other Russian warships, constantly ....
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US urges Turkey respecting freedom of press, democratic values
Date: 2016-03-05 09:25:03 GMT - USA - World - SN:22 - ID:4446045
WASHINGTON, March 5 (MENA) – US Department of State's spokesperson John Kirby described a verdict by an Istanbul court placing a trusteeship on Zaman newspaper as the latest in a series of troubling judicial and law enforcement actions taken by the ....
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Malaysia participates in emergency summit on Palestine in Jakarta
Date: 2016-03-05 07:46:32 GMT - Malaysia - World - SN:12 - ID:4445521
KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 (MENA) – Malaysia's Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman will lead the Malaysian delegation to the 5th Emergency Summit Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif which aims to ....
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Obama, Afghan president discuss promoting security cooperation
Date: 2016-03-05 06:36:46 GMT - USA - World - SN:3 - ID:4445389
WASHINGTON, March 5 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani discussed, during a video conference, ways of boosting joint security cooperation, the White House said in a statement. Obama also underlined Ghani's role in ....
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UNHCR: 6 steps towards solving the refugee situation in Europe
Date: 2016-03-04 22:09:15 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:87 - ID:4445153
GENEVA, March 4 (MENA) – The refugee situation in Europe is quickly deteriorating with around 30,000 people now in Greece, about a third of whom are in Idomeni just near the border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, UNHCR official ....
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Russia accuses Turkey of ongoing hostilities in Syria's Aleppo, Idlib
Date: 2016-03-04 22:05:38 GMT - Russia - World - SN:85 - ID:4445137
MOSCOW, March 4 (MENA) – Ankara is fully responsible for ongoing hostilities in Syria's Aleppo and Idlib provinces as Turkey ensures steady supply of weapons to terrorists and keeps shelling groups of Kurdish militia fighting against al-Nusra Front, ....
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Greece seizes Turkish arms ship
Date: 2016-03-04 21:33:41 GMT - Greece - World - SN:82 - ID:4445081
ATHENS, March 4 (MENA) - Greek port authorities in the Aegean island of Crete on Friday seized two containers from a Togo-flagged cargo ship, coming from Turkey, after discovering a large amount of illegal weapons and explosives, Sky News ....
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Amnesty condemns takeover of Turkish paper by governemnt
Date: 2016-03-04 21:27:09 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:79 - ID:4445073
ANKARA, March 4 (MENA) – Turkey’s government takeover of Zaman newspaper is the latest deeply troubling episode in the Turkish authorities’ ongoing onslaught on dissenting media, Amnesty International said on Friday on its official ....