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CAIRO. – Interim president Adly Mansour yesterday extended a state of emergency in force since mid-August by another two months because of Egypt’s security situation, his spokesman said.
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GAZA/RAMALLAH. – As Palestinians mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo peace accord with Israel today, local analysts say the peace deal brings both negative and positive results.
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MONROVIA. – Editor of one of Liberia’s leading newspapers said yesterday he had refused a conditional offer of release after he was jailed over reports about government corruption.
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GENEVA/BEIRUT. – US Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Geneva yesterday to hear Russia’s plans to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons and avert US-led military strikes, an initiative that has transformed diplomacy
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BEIJING/MOSCOW. – A senior Chinese diplomat on Wednesday called on all parties involved to make greater efforts for the resumption of six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesman said yesterday.
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NAIROBI – President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto will continue cooperating with the International Criminal Court (ICC), State House spokesman Manoah Esipisu has said.
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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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GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS – Syria applied on Thursday to sign up to the global ban on chemical weapons, a major first step in a Russian-backed plan that would see it abandon its arsenal of poison gas to avert US military strikes.
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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
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Vladmir V. Putin MOSCOW – Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.
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BOGOTA – A Canadian national has been arrested in Colombia after trying to board a flight to Toronto with a phony pregnant belly stuffed with cocaine, police say. The tourist caught the attention of a policewoman at Bogota’s International Airport who allegedly asked
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VIENNA – The UN nuclear watchdog is following reports that North Korea may have restarted a reactor capable of producing plutonium for weapons, but does not yet have a “clear understanding” of the situation there, its chief said on Thursday. A US research institute and a
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BEIRUT – The rebel Free Syrian Army categorically rejected Thursday a Russian proposal for placing Syria’s chemical arms under international control, and called for regime officials to be brought to justice. The Syrian National Coalition opposition group also
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TRIPOLI – Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood is threatening to quit the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, angry over a visit to Cairo they claim served to legitimise the coup in neighbouring Egypt. The threat further adds to tensions in a country already suffering from a
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AUC, UNECA, ILO to sign declaration of intent on Joint Youth Employment Initiative for Africa ADDIS ABABA – The African Union (AU), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the International Labor Organisation (ILO) will sign a declaration of intent on a Joint Youth Employment Initiative for […]