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Pakistan pulls anti-gov't TV channel off air
Date: 2014-10-21 08:58:47 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:23 - ID:1167645
ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 (MENA) - An anti-government TV news channel in Pakistan was taken off air for 15 days after a high court ruled that the broadcaster was "maligning" the country's judiciary, ABC news reported quoting Pakistan's media regulation ....
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Myanmar Says 2015 election won't be delayed
Date: 2014-10-21 08:48:21 GMT - Myanmar (Burma) - World - SN:21 - ID:1167505
NAYPYIDAW, Oct 21 (MENA) - Myanmar's government said Tuesday that a general election planned for late 2015 would be held on schedule, countering rumors that the vote could be postponed, according to ABC News. Tin Aye, chairman of the Myanmar Union ....
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Drunk snow remover driver may have caused jet crash killing Total CEO
Date: 2014-10-21 08:48:05 GMT - Russia - World - SN:20 - ID:1167521
MOSCOW, Oct 21 (MENA) - The driver of the snow removal machine that the French Falcon-50 jet collided with at the Moscow Vnukovo airport was drunk, spokesman of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told TASS. “At the present ....
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S Korean foreign, defense chiefs to leave for U.S. for security talks
Date: 2014-10-21 08:00:41 GMT - south korea - World - SN:15 - ID:1167285
SEOUL, Oct 21 (MENA) - South Korea's foreign and defense ministers plan to leave for the United States this week to attend a security meeting with their counterparts from Washington slated for later this week, Yonhap news agency quoting officials ....
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Former Australian PM dies at 98
Date: 2014-10-21 07:44:22 GMT - Australia - World - SN:14 - ID:1166989
CANBERRA, Oct 21 (MENA) - Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has died at the age of 98, according to BBC. He was credited with transforming Australian society in the 1970s after 23 years of conservative government, introducing many ....
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4 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack in Kabul
Date: 2014-10-21 07:43:58 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:13 - ID:1166949
KABUL, Oct 21 (MENA) - At least four Afghan soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack on a bus in the capital, ABC News reported. Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, says the blast occurred Tuesday ....
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6-magnitude quake shakes Ecuador's border with Colombia, no injuries or damage reported
Date: 2014-10-21 07:43:28 GMT - Ecuador - World - SN:12 - ID:1166945
QUITO, Oct 21 (MENA) - The U.S. Geological Survey says a 6-magnitude quake has struck Ecuador's border with Colombia, Fox News reported. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck at 3:33 p.m. EDT, had a depth of ....
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U.S. drone crashes on landing at airport in Niamey: Niger sources
Date: 2014-10-21 07:42:53 GMT - Niger - World - SN:11 - ID:1166953
NIAMEY, Oct 21 (MENA) - An unarmed US Reaper drone crashed on landing at the main airport in the capital of Niger on Monday, damaging the runway but causing no injuries, airport sources in Niger and the US Air Force told Euronews Washington ....
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Over 100 warplanes take part in former Soviet states air defense drills
Date: 2014-10-21 07:00:27 GMT - Russia - World - SN:4 - ID:1166941
MOSCOW, Oct 21 (MENA) - Seven Commonwealth of Independent States CIS states began air defense drills on Tuesday. Around 100 warplanes of fighter, bombing, assault and long-range aviation as well as 130 command control posts are involved in the ....
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UN says worker dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone
Date: 2014-10-20 22:54:03 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:162 - ID:1166505
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (MENA) - The United Nations said one of its staffers has died in the Ebola outbreak, ABC news reported Monday. A statement the by UN on Monday said Edmund Bangura-Sesay, a local driver for their office in Sierra Leone, died ....