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Japanese Diet committee OKs bill to launch U.S.-style NSC
Date: 2013-11-06 19:54:24 GMT - Japan - World - SN:146 - ID:374055
TOKYO, Nov 6 (MENA) - Japan moved closer Wednesday to creating a US-style National Security Council as a Diet committee approved a bill to set up the new framework for gathering information and speeding up decision-making in diplomacy and defense, ....
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Turkey's Erdogan hopes for faster EU accession process
Date: 2013-11-06 19:24:54 GMT - Turkey - World - SN:142 - ID:373993
SOPHIA, Nov 6 (MENA) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country is awaiting a faster EU accession process, Sophia News Agency reported Wednesday. Erdogan’s comment came after Turkey began on Tuesday its 22nd round ....
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Berlusconi: My woes like Jews had under Hitler
Date: 2013-11-06 19:18:05 GMT - Italy - World - SN:136 - ID:373994
ROME, Nov 6 (MENA) - Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has likened Jewish suffering in Hitler's Germany to what his family feels about his judicial woes, triggering criticism from Italian politicians and Jewish leaders that he is trivializing ....
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Dutch government taken to court over NSA links
Date: 2013-11-06 18:45:19 GMT - Netherlands - World - SN:133 - ID:373793
HAGUE, Nov 6, (MENA) - An alliance of privacy advocates, lawyers and journalists is taking the Dutch government to court over its links to overseas intelligence agencies, ABC news reported. The alliance said Wednesday it is asking the Hague ....
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Greece paralyzed by nationwide strike
Date: 2013-11-06 18:44:30 GMT - Greece - World - SN:132 - ID:373866
ATHENS, Nov 6 (MENA) - The public and the private sectors in Greece are paralyzed Wednesday as trade unions have called a 24-hour nationwide strike, Sophia News Agency reported. The strike is in protest against new tax legislation and fears of ....
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Moscow ready to host negotiations between Syrian regime, opposition: diplomat
Date: 2013-11-06 18:30:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:127 - ID:373865
MOSCOW, Nov 6 (MENA) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Wednesday that his country is ready to host negotiations between the Syrian regime and the opposition with international participation. Bogdanov stated that he met a ....
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Russia, Nicaragua eye booting economic ties
Date: 2013-11-06 18:22:41 GMT - Nicaragua - World - SN:121 - ID:373867
MOSCOW, Nov 6 (MENA) - Russia and Nicaragua have good potential for diversifying trade and economic relations, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told an intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical ....
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Iraq attacks kill 10 people, as 2013 toll tops 5,500
Date: 2013-11-06 14:39:43 GMT - USA - World - SN:95 - ID:373304
WASHINGTON Nov 6 (MENA) – Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people, including eight security personnel, officials said, the latest casualties in a country-wide spike in violence that the government has failed to stem, Global Post reported. Iraq is mired ....
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Diplomats fail to agree on details for Syria peace talks - newspaper
Date: 2013-11-06 14:06:17 GMT - USA - World - SN:88 - ID:373312
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (MENA) – Senior diplomats from the United States, Russia and the United Nations have failed to agree on a date for convening a long-awaited peace conference aimed at settling the Syria conflict, acknowledging it would not take ....
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Netantahu congratulates Lieberman on his acquittal of corruption charges
Date: 2013-11-06 09:18:02 GMT - Israel - World - SN:37 - ID:372678
RAMALLAH, Nov 6 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister congratulated Israel's former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman who was cleared of corruption charges by a court in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Lieberman will now return to the cabinet, Prime Minister ....