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Bush now more popular than Obama
Date: 2015-06-04 08:16:45 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:2726781
WASHINGTON, June 4 (MENA) - Some 52% of adults had a favorable impression of George W. Bush, 43% unfavorable. When Bush left office in 2009, only about one-third of Americans said they had a positive opinion of him, CNN said according to recent ....
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P5+1 delegations meet in Vienna for Iran nuclear energy talks
Date: 2015-06-04 07:34:52 GMT - Austria - World - SN:9 - ID:2726369
VIENNA, June 4 (MENA) – The delegations of P5+1 countries and Iran, headed by political directors, gathered in Vienna Wednesday for another round of talks over Tehran's nuclear program as an end of June deadline looms, Sputnik reported. The ....
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UN report: 33m people in NENA region undernourished
Date: 2015-06-03 22:45:06 GMT - Lebanon - World - SN:172 - ID:2725865
BEIRUT, June 3 (MENA) - Some 33 million people in Near East and North Africa (NENA) are chronically undernourished today, double the number in 1990, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said in new report on ....
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Iran increased nuclear fuel stockpile during talks -- paper
Date: 2015-06-03 22:43:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:170 - ID:2725857
WASHINGTON, June 3 (MENA) - Inspectors found that Iran increased its stockpile of nuclear fuel by as much as 20 percent in the last year and a half despite U.S. President Barack Obama’s claim that Tehran’s nuclear program was frozen, World Tribune ....
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Russia says 'deeply concerned over Ukrainian provocations' in Donbass
Date: 2015-06-03 22:12:30 GMT - Russia - World - SN:169 - ID:2725801
MOSCOW, June 3 (MENA) - Moscow is monitoring Kiev's shelling of Donbass and will formulate its reaction to the situation, Sputnik cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. Earlier on Wednesday, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ....
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Chinese vice premier meets former British PM
Date: 2015-06-03 17:09:05 GMT - China - World - SN:124 - ID:2724029
BEIJING, June 3 (MENA) - Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang met with former British prime minister Tony Blair here on Wednesday, according to Xinhuanet. Wang spoke highly of the efforts made by Blair for a sound development of the China-Britain ....
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S. Korea, US launch combined military division
Date: 2015-06-03 13:42:52 GMT - south korea - World - SN:83 - ID:2722937
SEOUL, June 3 (MENA) - South Korea and the United States kicked off a combined division Wednesday to bolster combat readiness against North Korea, the Ministry of National Defense said. Last year, the allies agreed to establish the combined ....
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UK needs strong Libyan gov't to solve refugee crisis, says Cameroon
Date: 2015-06-03 13:26:20 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:78 - ID:2722517
LONDON, June 3 (MENA) - We need a strong government in Libya and to break the link between getting boats to Europe and asylum, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. During his first address to the House of Commons after winning ....
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UN chief urges rationalization of natural resources' consumption
Date: 2015-06-03 12:59:05 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:75 - ID:2722173
CAIRO, June 3 (MENA) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for rationalizing the consumption of natural resources worldwide, adding that many of the earth's ecosystems is about to reach the point of no return. He made such remarks ....
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Russian investigators release name of key witness in Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine
Date: 2015-06-03 12:44:01 GMT - Russia - World - SN:70 - ID:2722169
MOSCOW, June 3 (MENA) - The Russian Investigation Committee has decided to release the name of the key witness to the Malaysian Airlines flight that was downed over eastern Ukraine last year, Russian Investigation Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin ....