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Power transformer fire in Monufia under control
Date: 2014-08-23 09:31:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:887062
Firefighters extinguished a fire that erupted in a power transformer in a Monufia village on Saturday. Three fire engines rushed to the scene to put out the flames that were probably ignited by a short circuit. ....
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India, Pakistan trade gunfire in Kashmir; 4 dead
Date: 2014-08-23 08:52:33 GMT - India - International - SN:23 - ID:886978
India and Pakistan traded gunfire in the disputed Kashmir region early Saturday, killing two villagers on each side and wounding several others, ABC News reported. Dharmendra Pareek, a top official of India's paramilitary force, said Indian ....
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PKK supporters block highway
Date: 2014-08-23 07:53:27 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:22 - ID:886888
Demonstrators affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been blocking a key highway in the eastern province of Muş for two days, burned and destroyed a large number of cars belonging to civilians. The PKK has been blocking the ....
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Libyan Dawn rebels seize control of interior ministry HQ in Tripoli
Date: 2014-08-23 07:43:09 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:886868
Libya Dawn, a movement led by rebels from Misrata, said it liberated the interior ministry building in Tripoli from government-backed fighters from the Zintan Brigades. The movement said its forces took control of two southern neighborhoods in ....
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Ebola crisis: Speed and extent of outbreak 'unprecedented'
Date: 2014-08-23 07:11:26 GMT - Liberia - Science - SN:20 - ID:886831
The World Health Organization has said the speed and extent of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is "unprecedented", the BBC reported Saturday. The WHO's Dr Keiji Fukuda expressed concern over so-called "shadow zones", areas which cannot be ....
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FM leaves for Arabia for Syria crisis meeting
Date: 2014-08-23 07:09:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:886830
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri will leave on Saturday for Saudi Arabia to attend an Arab ministerial meeting to discuss the developments in Syria. The meeting, including Arab member states of the "Friends of Syria Group", will probe the ....
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Israel strikes 30 targets overnight
Date: 2014-08-23 07:08:58 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:886829
The Israel Air Force struck 30 targets in the Gaza Strip since Friday night, a military spokesperson said on Saturday. Targets included weapons manufacturing sites, arms storage facilities and rocket launching pads, The Jerusalem Post ....
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2 Lebanese soldiers wounded in Tripoli
Date: 2014-08-23 07:06:16 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:886825
Two Lebanese soldiers were injured after an unidentified man threw a bomb at a military site in Bab-Tabbaneh district of Tripoli. ....
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Hamas leader says resistance not to accept int'l resolution to disarm it
Date: 2014-08-23 07:05:21 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:886824
Prominent Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said on Friday that the Palestinian resistance will not accept any international resolutions to disarm it. In a statement circulated by Hamas today, al-Zahar also said the resistance rejects any ....
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40 Palestinians injured in Israeli attack on house in Gaza
Date: 2014-08-23 07:04:23 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:886822
Forty Palestinian people were injured in an Israeli air raid on a house in the Gaza Strip. "More than 40 Palestinian people sustained various wounds during attack on a house in El Sabra neighborhood in Gaza," health ministry spokesman Ashraf ....
