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Death toll of Mexico storms up to 97
Date: 2013-09-20 10:28:33 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:17 - ID:298381
MEXICO CITY, Sept 20 (MENA) - Mexican authorities say 97 people have been killed by storms that hit the country earlier in the week, BBC reported. In the village of La Pintada, near the Pacific coast, a landslide partially engulfed the ....
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Venezuela: US banned presidential overflight
Date: 2013-09-20 10:16:15 GMT - Venezuela - World - SN:14 - ID:298362
CARACAS, Sept 20 (MENA) - Venezuela complained that Washington had barred President Nicolas Maduro from flying through US airspace and prohibited a general from later accompanying him to the United Nations. Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said ....
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America needs neocentrist foreign policy – magazine
Date: 2013-09-20 00:03:49 GMT - USA - World - SN:191 - ID:298177
WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (MENA) – Washington is paralyzed over what to do in Syria. By all accounts, the president’s choices range from bad to worse, the US POLITICO magazine said on Thursday. "But Syria is actually a symptom of a deeper intellectual ....
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In 1973 testimony, Gold Meir feared US backlash for Israeli pre-emptive strike
Date: 2013-09-19 22:15:40 GMT - Israel - World - SN:186 - ID:298140
WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (MENA) - Forty years later, Israel released testimony that reported fear of a US reaction to a pre-emptive strike that could have prevented the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria, the World Tribune reported. The government ....
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UN praises Iran for release of political prisoners
Date: 2013-09-19 20:05:14 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:173 - ID:297956
NEW YORK, Sept 19 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday praised the new government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for releasing political prisoners and opening a new round of dialogue with the international community. ....
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APEC finance ministers kick off 2-day meeting in Bali
Date: 2013-09-19 19:59:51 GMT - Japan - World - SN:171 - ID:297941
BALI, Sept 19 (MENA) - Finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum began a two-day meeting in Bali on Thursday to discuss ways to boost growth and strengthen regional resiliency amid current turbulence being experienced by ....
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Facebook to be blocked in Russia
Date: 2013-09-19 19:07:35 GMT - Russia - World - SN:165 - ID:297893
MOSCOW, Sept 19 (MENA) - Facebook has been added to the Russian blacklist of prohibited websites, said Vladimir Pikov, representative of telecom watchdog Roscomnadzor. This means that if in three days’ time the social network will not remove ....
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Russian missile forces to adopt new command system in 2016
Date: 2013-09-19 16:14:08 GMT - Russia - World - SN:117 - ID:297512
MOSCOW, Septer 19 (MENA) – Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces will use a new-generation automated command and control system from 2016, RIA Novosti quoted the Defense Ministry as saying Thursday. The new system, based on the digital transmission of ....
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Vatican pope calls on EU favouring political solution for Syrian crisis
Date: 2013-09-19 16:07:39 GMT - Italy - World - SN:114 - ID:297430
VATICAN, Sept 19 (MENA) - Vatican Pope Francis called on the European Union (EU) to activate the political solution for the Syrian crisis via dialogue and negotiations. This remark came during the pope's meeting with Lithuania's Prime Minister ....
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UK concerned over use of death penalty in Bangladesh
Date: 2013-09-19 14:51:58 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:94 - ID:297140
LONDON, Sept 19 (MENA) – UK Foreign Office Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi expressed deep concern over the use of the death penalty in Bangladesh. “I am deeply concerned at the decision by the Bangladesh Supreme Court to pass the death penalty ....