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BISHKEK — Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday that Beijing supports Russia’s proposal that Syria surrender its chemical weapons to international control for their eventual destruction. China pays high attention to the Syrian situation, the Chinese leader said while addressing the
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“A majority of the UN member states, including the 120 Non-Aligned movement (NAM) members, have dismissed the sanctions against Iran as illegitimate, illegal and politically- motivated,” Rouhani said, addressing the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Kyrgyz
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KIGALI — Rwanda yesterday launched an ambitious economic development plan aimed at pushing economic growth to 11.5 percent for each of the next five years and cementing it’s reputation as an African success story. “We are aiming at a double digit growth of 11.5 percent and bringing down
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LIBREVILLE — The secretary general of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) has called for an immediate end to abuses against the people in the Central African Republic. Allam-Mi Ahmad, on a visit to Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, said in a
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LIBREVILLE — The secretary general of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) has called for an immediate end to abuses against the people in the Central African Republic.
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HERAT – Seven heavily armed Taliban suicide attackers struck the US consulate in the Afghan city of Herat before dawn on Friday, setting off two car bombs and sparking a shootout with US forces.
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MOSCOW – Up to 37 people died when a fire gutted a psychiatric institution Friday morning outside the central Russian city of Veliky Novgorod, according to officials.
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NEW DELHI – Four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated. “Death to all,” additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna said while delivering the verdict in the Delhi gang-rape case that had evoked nationwide outrage […]
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NAIROBI – Kenyan vice-president William Ruto returned from The Hague on Thursday, where he had travelled on Monday for the beginning of his trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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CAPE TOWN — The role of media owners and their responsibility is to ensure that their products reflect a balanced view of the country and not only negative news, the South African Presidency said on Thursday.
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LONDON – British police said Friday they have arrested 12 men over a “sophisticated” plot to remotely take control of a computer at a branch of Santander bank and steal millions of pounds.
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GENEVA/BEIRUT – US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Friday to push again for an international conference aimed at ending Syria’s civil war.
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DUBAI – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged small-scale attacks inside the United States to “bleed America economically”, adding he hoped eventually to see a more significant strike, according to the SITE monitoring service.
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WASHINGTON – Divided American lawmakers careened Thursday towards a budget deadline that could see the US government shut down on October 1, as their leaders sniped over who is to blame.
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WASHINGTON – The US political establishment expressed outrage over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in The New York Times criticising Washington’s push for military action in Syria, with one senior US lawmaker even saying Putin’s comments nearly made him retch.