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. | Citing his anxiety over the ongoing developments in Gaza, Ban added that Israel’s Gaza policy was ineffective and regrettable, delaying the start of indirect talks between Palestine and Israel.
Ban expressed his desire for direct talks between Israel and Palestine instead of indirect. |
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. | The Quartet said that unilateral actions taken by either party to the Middle East peace process “will not be recognized by the international community.”
“Insulting” Clinton heaped further scorn on the Jewish state’s announcement after speaking with Netanyahu. |
[ March 12, 2010 to March 21, 2010. ]
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. | starting from 12th of March with “Baku Nights”, the festival will continue as follow: 15th “Festival of Wind Instruments”, 17th “In memory of Rashid Behbudov”, 18th “Night of Shahriyar”, 19th is a conference day, 20th “Tabriz Nights” and 21st will be the day of celebrating the “Oghuz Bayrami” (Azerbaijani New Year – Nowruz). |
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. | Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, police, doctors, patients, hospital staff and prisoners are expected to take part in the early election on Thursday as they will not be able to cast their votes on the polls day on Sunday as they either will be working or can not reach the polls centers.
“We have pretty good turnout since the morning and everything is going smoothly,” said Hussien al-Taie, head of media office of the electoral commission in Baghdad’s eastern part of |
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. | Argentine President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner urged the United States on Monday to engage in “friendly mediation” between Argentina and Britain in their dispute over the Falkland or Malvinas Islands off the southern Argentine coast. The request came at a meeting in Buenos Aires with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Clinton is making it clear that the United States supports direct dialogue between Britain and Argentina in the islands dispute that triggered a brief war between the two countries |
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. | A massive earthquake has hit central Chile, killing at least 122 people, the country’s president-elect says.
The 8.8 magnitude quake struck at 0634 GMT about 115km (70 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 325km south-west of the capital, Santiago. President Michelle Bachelet declared a |
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. | Afghan authorities say attackers struck in central Kabul early Friday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 32 others in a series of explosions and gunfire. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying five suicide bombers were involved. This is the latest assault in Kabul since last month when Taliban insurgents carrying automatic weapons and wearing suicide vests attacked several heavily guarded Afghan government buildings.
Residents in central Kabul say |
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. | Since Afghanistan has plunged into chaos, Peshawar has become a favourite destination for journalists arriving from all over the world to cover the Afghan war. Capital of Pakistan’s Frontier province, Peshawar is the gate way to Afghanistan. It takes an hour’s zigzag drive through bushy hills to reaches border post at Torkham. From |
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. | Netherlands says he expects Dutch troops will leave Afghanistan on schedule later this year.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende spoke on Dutch television, a day after his government collapsed after a main coalition partner said it could not support extending the Afghan deployment |
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. | Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has dropped her legal complaint over her rival’s presidential election victory, saying the court cannot be trusted to find the truth.
The unexpected move came Saturday morning when Tymoshenko appeared at the court in Kyiv. |
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. | Renegade soldiers in armoured vehicles have stormed Niger’s presidential palace in a hail of gunfire, kidnapping the country’s strongman president and then appearing on state television to declare a successful coup.
The soldiers also said on state TV that the country’s |
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. | U.S. President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, Thursday at the White House, despite intense protests from China.
The Dalai Lama arrived in Washington Wednesday ahead of his meeting with Mr. Obama, which will take place in a private room in the White House, and not in the Oval Office, the president’s |
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. | In addition “as the (British) prime minister has said, we need to ensure a full investigation is carried out into the fraudulent use of these passports,” he added.
No outright denial Israel’s foreign minister said on Wednesday the use of the identities of foreign-born Israelis by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant in Dubai did not prove the Mossad spy |
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. | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with the US State Department Special Envoy William Burns on Wednesday, February 17, a day after the White House named its first ambassador to Damascus after five years.
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. | A top Ukrainian court said today it has suspended the results of this month’s presidential election, pending review of an appeal filed by the declared loser.
In a statement, the High Administrative Court said that it has suspended the Central Election Commission’s ruling announcing that Viktor Yanukovych has won the February 7 runoff |
