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US citizen wrongly convicted decades ago freed from prison
Date: 2015-01-24 21:22:20 GMT - USA - World - SN:172 - ID:1815821
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (MENA) – A US inmate has been exonerated by DNA evidence and freed after spending decades in prison for a wrongful murder conviction, Fox News reported. Joseph Sledge was set free Friday after a three-judge panel found that he ....
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Ukraine's leader calls emergency meeting after 29 killed in attack
Date: 2015-01-24 21:18:10 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:171 - ID:1815817
KIEV, Jan 24 (MENA) - Ukraine's president was planning an emergency meeting of his military officials after a rebel rocket attack early Saturday morning killed 29 people in the port city of Mariupol, Fox News reported. President Petro Poroshenko ....
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Daesh does not operate in Afghanistan - official
Date: 2015-01-24 20:59:57 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:170 - ID:1815685
KABUL, Jan 24 (MENA) - Spokesman for acting governor of Afghanistan's Helmand Omar Zwak has turned down reports of Daesh reaching the province, khaama reported on Saturday. "There is no such group with the name of Daesh," he said. Residents of ....
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UK slams Daesh execution of Japanese hostage
Date: 2015-01-24 20:42:17 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:168 - ID:1815693
LONDON, Jan 24 (MENA) – Britain on Saturday strongly slammed the execution of a Japanese citizen by militants of Al-Qaeda terrorist splinter of Daesh. "The reported brutal murder of Haruna Yukawa and the further threats made by ISIL are yet ....
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UK nurse discharged from hospital after full recovery from Ebola
Date: 2015-01-24 20:30:50 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:165 - ID:1815529
LONDON, Jan 24 (MENA) - UK nurse Pauline Cafferkey has said she is "very happy to be alive", having been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from Ebola, the BBC reported Cafferkey, 39, admitted she had felt like "giving up" as ....
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Japan not to give in to terrorism -- Abe
Date: 2015-01-24 20:18:33 GMT - Japan - World - SN:162 - ID:1815497
TOKYO, Jan 24 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday his country would not give in to terrorism, the BBC news reported on Saturday. The PM said that Japanese concerned authorities are seeking to verify a video that claims ....
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80% of Japanese in favor of death penalty: gov't survey
Date: 2015-01-24 20:17:23 GMT - Japan - World - SN:161 - ID:1815617
TOKYO, Jan 24 (MENA) - The percentage of Japanese people in favor of the death penalty totaled 80.3 percent, down from a record 85.6 percent in the previous survey in 2009, according to a government poll released Saturday, Kyodo reported. Only ....
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At least 27 killed in rocket attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol
Date: 2015-01-24 20:00:10 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:156 - ID:1815401
KIEV, Jan 24 (MENA) - Authorities say at least 27 people have been killed in attacks on several locations in Ukraine’s government-held city of Mariupol, Euronews reported. Local officials blamed pro-Russian separatists for the barrage, one of ....
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Iraq's defense min. meets US military official
Date: 2015-01-24 19:45:04 GMT - Iraq - World - SN:152 - ID:1815077
BAGHDAD, Jan 24 (MENA) - Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeid on Saturday met with Mick Bednarek, chief of the US Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq, and his accompanied delegation. The meeting tackled rebuilding and arming of the Iraqi Army ....
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Japan attempts to verify Isis hostage ‘beheading video’
Date: 2015-01-24 18:00:39 GMT - Japan - World - SN:135 - ID:1814849
TOKYO, Jan 24 (MENA) - The Japanese government is seeking to verify a video that suggests one of the two Japanese hostages kidnapped by Islamic State has been killed, The Guardian reported. In the video there is an audio recording of a man ....