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71 Taliban militants killed, 40 others injured in Afghan operations
Date: 2014-05-06 10:35:34 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:34 - ID:706076
KABUL, May 6 (MENA) - At least 71 Taliban militants were killed following counter-terrorism operations in various provinces of Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, Khama news agency reported. The interior ministry of Afghanistan following a ....
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Bombings in Thailand's restive south injure 9
Date: 2014-05-06 10:18:55 GMT - Thailand - World - SN:31 - ID:706031
BANGKOK, May 6 (MENA) - Bombs exploded at a police station and a convenience store in a tourist city in Thailand's violence-plagued south Tuesday, injuring nine people, ABC news reported quoting police as having said. The first bomb exploded in ....
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Iran urges removal of restrictions on transfer of peaceful nuclear equipment
Date: 2014-05-06 08:02:34 GMT - Iran - World - SN:18 - ID:705721
NEW YORK, May 6 (MENA) - Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi called for removal of all restrictions and discriminatory attitudes on transfer of nuclear material and equipment which are for peaceful ....
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Vietnam arrests 2 dissident bloggers
Date: 2014-05-06 06:58:04 GMT - Vietnam - World - SN:8 - ID:705584
HANOI, May 6 (MENA) - Vietnam has arrested two democracy activists for posting articles critical of the government on the Internet, signaling a continued crackdown on dissent despite the early release of three dissidents last month, ABC news ....
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Five Honduran youth gang members killed in jail fight
Date: 2014-05-06 06:37:14 GMT - Honduras - World - SN:6 - ID:705556
TEGUCIGALPA, May 6 (MENA) - Five youths have been killed in a gang fight in a prison in Honduras, the BBC reported. Officials said the five, all of them under 18, belonged to the M18 street gang and were attacked by members of the rival Mara ....
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Iran backs political solution to Syria: Larijani
Date: 2014-05-06 06:14:37 GMT - Iran - World - SN:2 - ID:705532
TEHRAN, May 6 (MENA) - Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s support for finding a solution to the Syrian crisis through political means and negotiations, Press TV reported. “Political solution, the use of ....
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1,000 ounces of gold recovered from sunken ship
Date: 2014-05-05 20:50:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:179 - ID:705381
WASHINGTON, May 5 (MENA) - An expedition to bring back the remaining gold from a steamship that sank in 1857 off South Carolina in one of the nation's worst maritime disasters has recovered almost 1,000 ounces of gold - the first gold recovered from ....
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Russia bans swearing in films
Date: 2014-05-05 19:23:18 GMT - Russia - World - SN:164 - ID:705180
MOSCOW, May 5 (MENA) – Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed Monday a law that bans curse words in movies, as well as in plays, concerts and most other publicly shown theatrical productions. Movies which violate the law will not be screened, ....
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Russis urges Ukraine to halt military actions
Date: 2014-05-05 18:44:33 GMT - Russia - World - SN:160 - ID:705176
MOSCOW, May 5 (MENA) - The Russian foreign ministry called on Ukraine to stop its military operations and to withdraw its troops from southeast Ukraine. The ministry called on the Ukrainian authorities to start negotiations in order to end the ....
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Ukraine delays delivery of equipment for Russian defense industry
Date: 2014-05-05 18:42:29 GMT - Russia - World - SN:159 - ID:705187
MOSCOW, May 5 (MENA) - Ukraine is delaying the delivery of gas turbines for Russian defense enterprises while not refusing to supply them, Itar-Tass quoted Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov as saying on Monday. The turbines are to be ....