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Six people shot at high school in Washington State, one dead One student has died and at least six people have been shot at a high school near the city of Spokane in the US state of Washington with a suspect taken into custody.
According to a woman at the Spokane Police Department who declined to give her name, the shooting happened at Freeman High School in... |
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Zarif, Putin stress full commitment to Irans nuclear agreement Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Russian President Vladimir Putin have underlined the need for all parties to Iran’s nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to fulfill their commitments stipulated in the deal.
Zarif, who arrived... |
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Iran detains Isis group leader near Tehran The Iranian news outlet YJC says that authorities have arrested a leader of the Isis extremist group. The report says the suspect was in contact with 300 Isis members and was planning attacks during Shiite ceremonies across the country next month.
Members of the elite Revolutionary Guard detained the... |
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Global Peace Summit is Held for the Establishment of Peace Governance Seeking Strategies for Peacebuilding between Government and Civil Societyat the 3rd Annual Commemoration of the WARP Summit in Seoul, Republic of Korea
An international summit to seek global governance for peace and stability of the international society is held from September 17th to 19th in Seoul,... |
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Singapore gets 1st female president without election Singapore has named a former parliament speaker from the Muslim Malay minority as the country’s first female president, drawing criticism for her selection without a vote.
Halimah Yacob was named president on Wednesday without having to face an election for the mostly ceremonial position... |
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Security Council to vote on US-drafted resolution on North Korea The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on a revised US-drafted resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea over its largest ever nuclear test just over a week ago, diplomats say.
According to the diplomats, the 15 Security Council members will vote later on Monday on the watered-down... |
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German foreign minister equates far-right AfD party with Nazis German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Monday equated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party with the Nazis who ruled the country from 1933 to 1945, an insult rarely heard in national politics.
In an interview with Internet provider t-online.de, Gabriel said many German voters were considering voting... |
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Bangladesh offers land to shelter Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar Bangladesh has agreed to free land for a new camp to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled an escalation of violence in Myanmar.
Mohammed Shahriar Alam, a junior minister for foreign affairs, said in a Facebook post on Monday that Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina... |
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Hundreds of thousands rally for Catalans independence from Spain Hundreds of thousands of people have staged a rally in Barcelona to show support for Catalonia’s separation from Spain in the upcoming independence referendum.
An estimated 400,000 Catalans from all walks of life marched through central Barcelona on Monday, waving red, yellow and blue separatist... |
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Only regional states can protect security of region: Rouhani Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has lambasted foreign interference in regional issues, reiterating that peace and security of the region must only be ensured by its nations.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that only regional countries, particularly Iran and Pakistan, must endeavor and cooperate... |
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OIC leaders urge swift end to violence against Rohingya Muslims Senior leaders of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have stressed the importance of taking swift action to put an immediate end to the ongoing brutal violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
On the sidelines of the first OIC summit on science and technology in... |
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Arab countries, Qatar should mend Persian Gulf rift by direct talks: Russian FM Russia says the so-called quartet of Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia, and Qatar should begin direct negotiations to defuse an unprecedented diplomatic crisis that erupted three months ago in the Persian Gulf region.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a joint press conference with his... |
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Modi, Abe to kick-start Indias first bullet train project Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will break ground on Indias first bullet train project on Thursday in western Gujarat state, as the country seeks faster travel for millions.
Modi has pledged to invest billions of dollars to modernize Indias creaking railway... |
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McCain threatens North Korea with extinction US Republican Senator John McCain has warned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un against attacking America and its allies, saying such aggression will lead to the Eastern Asian countrys "extinction."
Washington needs to "make sure that Kim Jong-un knows that if he acts in an aggressive fashion, the price... |
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Mass rally expected in Barcelona in support of Catalonia independence Hundreds of thousands are expected to take to the streets of the Spanish city of Barcelona to declare their support for a planned referendum on Catalonias independence from the mainland amid efforts by the central government to block the highly-anticipated vote.
People from towns and villages across... |
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UN asks for aid to tackle Rohingya crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh The United Nations has appealed for aid to tackle a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh, where the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar has neared 300,000.
UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Robert Watkins said on Sunday that the wave of traumatized refugees was... |
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Riyadh may have sponsored 9/11 dry run: New lawsuit data New evidence in a lawsuit, which holds Saudi Arabia responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks, shows that the kingdom may have funded a "dry run" prior to the incident.
The lawsuit alleges that the Saudi embassy in Washington paid for two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students,... |
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Irans missile boat warns off US warship in Sea of Oman An Iranian missile boat has warned off an American warship approaching an Iranian dhow in the Sea of Oman, the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army said in a statement on Sunday.
"The dhow, Shams (Sun), had set sail from the port city of Jask in southeastern Iran to test its motor. Forty-five miles... |
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Merkel Says Iran Deal a Model for solving North Korea Issue German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed that the North Korea crisis can be solved using the 2015 agreement with Iran as a model for negotiations.
"If our participation in talks is desired, I will immediately say yes," Merkel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in an interview published... |
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US plans to expand military ties with Myanmar amid atrocities against Rohingya: Report The United States is not likely to intervene to stop the ethnic cleansing campaign against Myanmar’s downtrodden Rohingya Muslims and is even drafting a bill to expand US military cooperation with the Southeast Asian country bordering China – a regional super power the US is trying... |
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France must scrap own nuclear arsenal instead of criticizing Pyongyang: North Korea A senior North Korean official has lashed out at France over its criticism of Pyongyangs atomic program, urging Paris to scrap its own nuclear arsenal.
"Recently, high ranking French politicians startled the people by saying absurd things with regards to the DPRKs (North Koreas) successful detonation... |
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Coach Paterno had prior knowledge Sandusky was child sex abuser: police report Legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had known years before Jerry Sanduskys arrest that his longtime assistant might be sexually abusing children.
Michael McQueary, his other assistant, had reported to Paterno an extreme sexual incident he witnessed in a locker room between Sandusky... |
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Najib Razak says Myanmars Rohingya Muslims face systematic atrocities Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face systematic atrocities, including torture, rape and murder, which have recently forced several hundred thousands of members of the persecuted minority to seek refuge across the border in neighboring Bangladesh.
The Malaysian premier... |
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Japan conducts air exercise with US over East China Sea The Japanese military has conducted a joint aerial combat drill with the United States over the East China Sea amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Japans Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) said Saturday that the military drill involved two Japanese F-15 jet fighters joining two US Air Force... |
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Four Arab states reject progress in Kuwait mediation efforts with Qatar The Saudi-led bloc of four Arab countries which recently severed ties with Qatar have denied statements by the Kuwaiti emir about signs of progress in his mediation efforts to help resolve the diplomatic crisis with Doha.
In a Friday statement released by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the... |
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Erdogan criticizes US for charging ex-minister over Iran bans Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced as “politically motivated” the US prosecutors’ recent charges against a former economy minister accused of violating US sanctions on Iran, calling on Washington to review the move.
"I say clearly, I see this step taken against... |
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China defends Pakistani anti-terror bids following Trumps criticism China’s top diplomat has defended Pakistan’s anti-terrorism measures following assertions by US President Donald Trump that Islamabad fosters militants attacking American and Afghan military forces.
“The government and people of Pakistan have made huge sacrifices in the fight... |
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Haley hysteric fit to cost US dearly, North Korea warns North Korea has warned that the US will “pay dearly” after Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations said the Asian peninsular country was “begging for war” as tensions continue to mount between the two countries.
“The US administration will have to pay... |
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Iran FM urges swift UN action on Rohingya crisis Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned about the continuation of the ongoing crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, urging the international community and the United Nations in particular to take swift action to end the crisis.
“It is expected that the United Nations... |
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Syria strongly denies alleged role in Khan Shaykhun chemical attack The Syrian government has categorically dismissed a United Nations report accusing it of being involved in a suspected chemical attack in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib, which killed dozens of people in early April.
The Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United... |
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