An international high-level conference in Baghdad started Saturday with Syria, Iran and the US participating.
At the opening of the conference, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stressed that Iraq, its neighbouring countries and allies were all... More |
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The defence ministers of Syria and Iran, Hassan Turkmany and Mustafa Mohammad Najjar, Saturday met to discuss the latest developments in the region, Syria's official News Agency Sana said.
They discussed the cooperation between the two... More |
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 | The latest review of social studies textbooks for middle schools in California has upset the Indian community, which has accused the board of education of spreading misleading information about Hinduism.
A group of parents, under the umbrella of... More |
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 | At least 30 Iraqis were killed and 29 wounded in a suicide attack at a cafe near Baquba.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the cafe in Balad Ruz town, 35 km north of Baquba in a mixed Shiite-Sunni region in Diyala province north of Baghdad... More |
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 | Israel's air force unveiled a new drone which its makers say is the largest in the world and better able to film clear footage of militants on the ground than older and smaller models.
The pilot less plane, developed by the Israel Aerospace... More |
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 | The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has urged the Indian Ocean rim states to open up their markets to create long-term partnerships.
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussein Al Shaali told delegates at the 7th meeting of the Indian... More |
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 | The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Thursday formally approved by consensus far-reaching cuts in its technical cooperation programme with Iran in compliance with a UN Security Council resolution.
On the sidelines of the meeting,... More |
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 | Seven schoolchildren were killed and 11 others injured Thursday in Pakistan's central Punjab province after their vehicle was hit by a truck, news reports said.
The head-on collision occurred early in the morning in Nankana district, 75 km... More |
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 | The editor-in-chief of Italian daily La Repubblica Thursday issued a statement denying Taliban claims that an Italian journalist captured by insurgents in Afghanistan is a spy.
His statement comes ahead of a rally appealing for the journalist's... More |
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 | A house fire killed nine people, eight of them children, in New York's Bronx borough, a local TV station reported Thursday.
At least ten people sustained burn, some of severe degree, in the blaze, which was one of the deadliest residential fires... More |
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