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The Malian rebels on Saturday entered the northern town of Gao, capitalizing on the chaos installed in the country after the coup that ousted former president Amadou Teumani Toure and replaced him with a military junta who promised to intensify the fight with the northern Tuareg [...]
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Hungarian president Pal Schmitt on Saturday announced he would not resign his office in spite of the scandal caused by his stripping of the doctorate degree at the end of an investigation into the originality of his work. Earlier this week, a find-finding committee decided that the [...]
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A Syrian official on Friday said that the regime of Bashar al-Assad would not leave the cities and towns where it has cracked down on the unrest until the life returned to normal and the rebels withdrew. A spokesman for the Syrian foreign ministry said that the military in the [...]
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Turkey on Friday announced that it would reduce the import of oil from Iran by 20 percent, bowing to the international sanctions imposed by the United States, which have just cleared the way for imposing sanctions on the regime in Tehran, in an attempt to avert the Israeli [...]
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The White House on Friday announced that the way for sanctions in Iran was clear because the cutoff of Iranian oil would not hurt the world economy. Barack Obama announced that there was enough supply of petroleum products from the other oil producing countries. The move allows the United [...]
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French police on Friday raided hideouts of suspected Islamist extremists arresting 19 in a campaign promised by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy in the wake of the Toulouse shooting at a Jewish school, as a result of which 3 children and a rabbi were killed last [...]
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Sudan and South Sudan are expected to resume negotiations on Saturday, as the leaders of the two countries play down the importance of the violent border clashes since the country split in January 2011. The two countries clashed for two days in an oil-rich zone at the border in the [...]
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Hungarian president Schmitt Pal on Friday cancelled all public engagements and is expected to make an announcement about a possible resignation in an address to the Hungarian radio and television, a move that is anticipated by many people in the central European country.
The move comes [...]
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An Afghan police officer on Friday killed nine of his colleagues as they were sleeping in the eastern province of Paktika then escaped in a governmental vehicle full of guns and ammunition. The incident is one of the deadliest cases of fratricide in Afghanistan over the last few [...]
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Japanese defense ministry on Friday ordered the missile units to intercept NKorean rocket that is expected to carry the satellite that is to be launched into orbit in mid-April and destroy it, if it comes over the territory of Japan. The order made by defense minister Naoki [...]
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Thousands of people on Friday attended the funeral of the Tibetan man who had set himself on fire on Monday in the capital of India, New Delhi, days before a summit of the BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, Indian, China and South Africa, which is attended by the Chinese [...]
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Kurds earlier this week walked out of the Syrian National Council’s meeting in Istanbul as they did not obtain any promise from the leaders of the council that the Kurdish problem would be tackled before the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and autonomy would be granted for [...]
Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | March 29th 2012 | no comments
Japanese justice minister on Thursday approved the execution of three inmates after 18 months without any execution approved. Three men who had been sentenced to death were hanged on Thursday, angering the human rights campaigners who were expecting the country to move [...]
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Ukrainian 18-year-old woman Oksana Makar on Thursday died in the hospital after being raped, half strangled and set on fire by a gang of three men who dumped her then in a deserted place where she was found by motorist and taken to a hospital.
The scandalous crime caused hundreds of [...]
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Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday demanded that the “terrorist groups” lay down arms as a precondition of the application by his government of the peace plan drafted by special U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, which is backed by many western [...]
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday met with the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran, on which occasion he praised the long-standing cooperation between the two countries and the response they have to the “Western arrogance.”
The Turkish [...]
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The coalition troops operating in Afghanistan have been ordered to take extraordinary precautions against being shot by the Afghan troops, including assigning “guardian angels” to keep watch as the joint bases 24 hours a day. The measure means that any time a Western [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI concluded his three-day visit to Communist Cuba, where he met the leaders of the Communist regime, the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, and attended Masses on the occasion of the celebration of the local Virgin of Charity el Cobre in Santiago de Cuba.
The [...]
