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Russia publishes plan for visa-free travel with S. Korea
Date: 2013-09-18 20:25:10 GMT - Russia - World - SN:148 - ID:296233
MOSCOW, September 18 (MENA) – Russia’s government published an approved draft agreement Wednesday on visa-free travel with South Korea, reported RIA Novosti. According to the document, which has yet to be signed by both sides, Russians and South ....
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AL and UN chiefs inaugurate in NY conf. to support UNRWA
Date: 2013-09-18 17:30:46 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:121 - ID:295793
CAIRO, Sept 18 (MENA) – The Arab League (AL) announced that Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will open on Sept 26 in New York an international meeting dedicated to the support of United Nations ....
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Iran seesawing on social media, nuclear policy may reflect infighting -- US paper
Date: 2013-09-18 17:26:33 GMT - USA - World - SN:120 - ID:295637
LOS ANGELES, Sept 18 (MENA) - One day Facebook is a handy way for Iranian government ministers to confer with the people and the next it can be denounced as "a Zionist tool", Los Angeles Times said Wednesday as it analyzed Iran's seesawing social ....
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Gates, Panetta question Obama's Syria strategy
Date: 2013-09-18 17:16:58 GMT - USA - World - SN:117 - ID:295861
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (MENA) - US President Barack Obama's first two defense secretaries questioned his Syria strategy and said they would have told him not to seek Congress' approval for a strike on Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, the USA ....
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UN inspector: Team to return to Syria within weeks
Date: 2013-09-18 16:54:09 GMT - Sweden - World - SN:113 - ID:295816
STOCKHOLM, Sept 18 (MENA) – The chief UN chemical weapons inspector says his team will return to Syria "within weeks" to complete the investigation it had started before the Aug 21 gas attack of other alleged chemical weapons attacks in the ....
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Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition -- report
Date: 2013-09-18 16:10:13 GMT - USA - World - SN:99 - ID:295505
US/Syria Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition -- report WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (MENA) - US President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to ....
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Mexico storms, landslides claim lives of 57 persons
Date: 2013-09-18 15:49:37 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:91 - ID:294873
Mexico/Storms Mexico storms, landslides claim lives of 57 persons MEXICO CITY, Sept 18 (MENA) - More than 2,000 tourists have been airlifted by the army from the Mexican resort of Acapulco following deadly floods caused by Tropical Storm ....
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Limited number of MB members stage protest outside Italian consulate in Alex.
Date: 2013-09-18 15:08:00 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:82 - ID:295578
Egypt/MB Limited number of MB members stage protest outside Italian consulate in Alex. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Sept 18 (MENA) - A limited number of members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group staged a protest outside the Italian Consulate in ....
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Taliban kill Afghan election official in Kunduz province
Date: 2013-09-18 14:12:16 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:72 - ID:295475
Afghanistan/Taliban Taliban kill Afghan election official in Kunduz province KABUL, Sept 18 (MENA) - The head of Afghanistan's electoral commission in Kunduz province has been shot dead, the BBC reported Wednesday. Amanullah Aman was shot ....
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Palestinian Amb.rejects Hamas' prevention of students to travel to Egypt to join universities
Date: 2013-09-18 14:03:12 GMT - Egypt - World - SN:68 - ID:295422
Egypt/Palestine Palestinian Amb.rejects Hamas' prevention of students to travel to Egypt to join universities CAIRO, Sept 18 (MENA) - Palestinian Ambassador in Cairo Barakat al-Farra said a decision by the Egyptian authorities to ....