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World set to face 40% water shortage by 2030: UN report
Date: 2015-03-22 14:18:12 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:67 - ID:2218361
CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - The world is set to face a 40% per cent shortfall in water supplies by 2030 due to urbanisation, pressures of food production, population growth and the increasing demand from the manufacturing, domestic and energy sector, a ....
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Daesh urges sympathizers to kill US service members it identifies on website
Date: 2015-03-22 10:22:52 GMT - USA - World - SN:24 - ID:2215877
NEW YORK, March 22 (MENA) – In a new online threat to American military personnel, Daesh has called on its members and sympathizers in the United States to kill 100 service members whose names, photos and purported addresses it posted on a website, ....
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Local elections start in France
Date: 2015-03-22 08:33:01 GMT - France - World - SN:16 - ID:2215121
PARIS, March 22 (MENA) - The French people Saturday started casting their ballots in local elections in which the Socialists of President Francois Hollande are expected to suffer another setback. Voters are electing representatives in 101 ....
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Indonesia president to start Japan tour for talks with Abe, defense pact
Date: 2015-03-22 08:32:16 GMT - Japan - World - SN:15 - ID:2215313
TOKYO, March 22 (MENA) – Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will begin a four-day official visit to Japan on Sunday evening, a trip that Japanese officials hope will strengthen the strategic partnership between the two major democracies and ....
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US Special Forces withdraw from Yemen
Date: 2015-03-22 08:26:09 GMT - USA - World - SN:12 - ID:2215309
WASHINGTON, March 22 (MENA) – The United States is evacuating its remaining 100 special operations forces from Yemen, amid a deteriorating security situation in the country, CNN reported on Sunday, citing sources in the region familiar with the ....
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South Korea vows to harshly respond to North provocations
Date: 2015-03-22 08:16:47 GMT - south korea - World - SN:11 - ID:2215117
SEOUL, March 22 (MENA) - South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it will handle any provocation by the North with "powerful and firm" measures, Yonhap reported. "A civic group's scattering of leaflets is a part of its rights to free ....
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N. Korea renews threats against leaflet campaign
Date: 2015-03-22 08:14:43 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:2214985
PYONGYANG, March 22 (MENA) - North Korea on Sunday renewed its threats against a South Korean civic group's plan to send anti-Pyongyang fliers across the border via balloon, warning it will use "all the firepower strike means" to destroy them, ....
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France, Italy express desire to increase European economic, security support to Tunisia
Date: 2015-03-21 23:04:57 GMT - France - World - SN:149 - ID:2214605
PARIS, March 21 (MENA) - Italy and France on Saturday expressed their desire to increase European support to Tunisia following the recent terrorist attacks. The two countries' foreign and defense ministers met on Saturday in Caen, western ....
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Assad plays America the fool... again
Date: 2015-03-21 22:27:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:144 - ID:2214565
WASHINGTON, March 21 (MENA) - Last decade, Bashar al-Assad’s regime fooled Washington into believing that he would bring about reform. He did not. The lack of institutional and economic reforms led to the uprising and civil war in Syria, according ....
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11 arrested after woman beaten, set ablaze in Afghanistan
Date: 2015-03-21 21:28:57 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:136 - ID:2214401
KABUL, March 21 (MENA) - Eleven Afghan persons, believed to have been participants in a mob that dragged, beat, and killed a woman after she was accused of burning pages from the Quran, have been arrested, the CNN reported. The Afghan woman is ....