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Italy urges focusing on forming Libya's new government
Date: 2016-02-08 14:27:29 GMT - Italy - World - SN:61 - ID:4274089
ROME, Feb 8 (MENA) - Italy is currently focusing on finding ways of shoring up Libya's new government, said Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni. In statements Monday, the minister said that Italy realizes that Daesh is intensifying its ....
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Scores down off Turkey's coasts
Date: 2016-02-08 13:59:46 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:48 - ID:4273481
ANKARA, Feb 8 (MENA) - Two boats on their way to Greece have capsized near Turkey, killing at least 35 migrants, Turkish media said. Some 22 people died close to the Greek island of Lesbos and 11 others died in a separate incident further south, ....
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Russia detains 7 Daesh suspects plotting attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg
Date: 2016-02-08 11:14:02 GMT - Russia - World - SN:35 - ID:4272717
MOSCOW, Feb 8 (MENA) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained seven individuals in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of their participation in Daesh who were planning terrorist acts in Moscow and St. Petersburg and were to head to Syria ....
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Seven arrested in Spain for supplying arms to Daesh
Date: 2016-02-08 09:22:11 GMT - Spain - World - SN:21 - ID:4271501
MADRID, Feb 8 (MENA) - Seven people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of supplying weapons and bomb-making equipment to Daesh leaders in Syria and Iraq, Daily Mail reported Monday. Six men were held during dawn raids today in Alicante, ....
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China worried over US-Korea plans to deploy THAAD system
Date: 2016-02-08 07:34:00 GMT - China - World - SN:11 - ID:4270653
BEIJING, Feb 8 (MENA) - China asked both the US and South Korea not to "impair" its security interests after they decided to launch talks on the deployment of an advanced American missile defense system on South Korean soil, hours after North ....
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Suicide bombing in north Afghanistan kills 3 Afghan soldiers
Date: 2016-02-08 07:07:51 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:8 - ID:4270489
KABUL, Feb 8 (MENA) - At least three Afghan soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack Monday morning on an army minibus near their base in northern Balkh province, the ABC News quoted an official as saying. The suicide bomber was on foot and ....
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German authorities conduct anti-terrorism raids in Mainz
Date: 2016-02-07 22:02:07 GMT - Germany - World - SN:108 - ID:4269621
BERLIN, Feb 7 (MENA) - Authorities on Sunday conducted an anti-terror raid in Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany, the Deutsche Welle reported. The raid came just days after police carried out a string of coordinated ....
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Tsunami of refugees in Europe triggered by US policy in Middle East - Russian lawmaker
Date: 2016-02-07 21:57:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:106 - ID:4269701
MOSCOW, Feb 7 (MENA) - A Russian lawmaker said on Sunday a tsunami of refugees in Europe has been triggered by the United States' policy in the Middle East rather than by Russia's actions, TASS reported. "Before September 30, 2015, Russia had ....
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Germany calls N. Korea's missile 'irresponsible provocation'
Date: 2016-02-07 21:55:03 GMT - Germany - World - SN:105 - ID:4269613
BERLIN, Feb 7 (MENA) - Germany has condemned North Korea's rocket launch using ballistic missile technology. In a statement, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the North's launch of a long-range missile an "irresponsible ....
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UN Security Council condemns North Korean rocket launch
Date: 2016-02-07 19:55:31 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:104 - ID:4269481
NEW YORK, Feb 7 (MENA) - The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned North Korea over launching a satellite into space Sunday, CNN reported. Though North Korea said the launch was for scientific and "peaceful purposes," it is ....