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Spanish minister warns independent Scotland would get euro not pound
Date: 2014-09-16 18:21:24 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:121 - ID:952997
LONDON, Sept 16 (MENA) - Spain's European Affairs Minister contradicted Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond by stating a separate Scotland would need to wait at least five years for EU membership and sign up to the single currency, the Telegraph ....
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Operations against Daesh best described as mission rather than war - Australia PM
Date: 2014-09-16 18:04:33 GMT - Australia - World - SN:118 - ID:952877
CANBERRA, Sept 16 (MENA) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned Tuesday of minimizing the risk of operations against Daesh in Iraq. "I don't want to minimize the difficulties and the dangers here because there are difficulties and there ....
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UN brokers agreement to start Gaza rebuild
Date: 2014-09-16 17:35:34 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:111 - ID:952681
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (MENA) - The United Nations has brokered an agreement to enable the reconstruction the Gaza Strip, giving a lead role to the Palestinian Authority while involving the private sector, the Abc News quoted U.N.'s top Mideast envoy as ....
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French FM meets his British opposite number
Date: 2014-09-16 14:31:41 GMT - France - World - SN:92 - ID:951717
PARIS, Sept 16 (MENA) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius received British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond Tuesday. The meeting took up means to combat Daesh group and end the Ukrainian crisis, said Spokesman for the French Foreign ....
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Italian Interior Minister: Nnew rules to prevent Daesh recruitment
Date: 2014-09-16 11:43:42 GMT - Italy - World - SN:60 - ID:950201
ROME, Sept 16 (MENA) - New rules are in the works to seal "a hole" in Italian laws to better deal with any citizen who chooses to fight on the side of terrorist groups such as Daesh, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said. He warned that the ....
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U.S. military to lead Ebola fight
Date: 2014-09-16 08:33:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:28 - ID:948237
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (MENA) - President Obama will announce Tuesday that the U.S. military will take the lead in overseeing what has been a chaotic and widely criticized response to the worst Ebola outbreak in history, dispatching up to 3,000 ....
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Japan rules out military support for U.S. fight against Islamic State
Date: 2014-09-16 07:57:08 GMT - Japan - World - SN:25 - ID:948361
TOKYO, Sept 16 (MENA) - Japan does not plan to provide any military support to the United States or other countries joining a coalition to fight Islamic State extremists in Iraq, Kyodo reported qutoing the top government spokesman as having said ....
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Paper: Iran won’t join U.S. in Daesh fight
Date: 2014-09-16 07:40:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:20 - ID:947837
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (MENA) - Iran on Monday spurned an American request for cooperation in the fight against Daesh militants, but the United States said the door remains open to a rare opportunity to make common cause with its principal adversary in ....
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ISAF said one of soldiers shot dead by individual wearing army uniform
Date: 2014-09-16 07:31:42 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:18 - ID:948089
KABUL, Sept 16 (MENA) - The International Security Assistance Force known as ISAF announced Tuesday that one of its troops died after being shot by an individual wearing an Afghan army uniform, ABC news reported. The attack raises the possibility ....
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Typhoon hits China, forcing cancellation of dozens of flights
Date: 2014-09-16 07:13:31 GMT - China - World - SN:16 - ID:947905
BEIJING, Sept 16 (MENA) - A typhoon struck China's southernmost island of Hainan on Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights as it headed northwest toward Vietnam, ABC news reported. About 90,000 people in southern China were ....