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Escalating civil war in Syria major focus of G8 summit
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - The escalating civil war in Syria and the deepening divisions between the western powers and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war-torn country are to be the focus of the G8 summit that opened here Monday. Putin is likely to attack US President Barack Obama over his move to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime. "The EU is convinced that we are ...
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US cool over North Korea's latest talks offer
WASHINGTON - The United States has said it wants "credible negotiations" with North Korea as Pyongyang in its latest offer has expressed desire to start "senior-level" talks with America on regional peace and easing tensions. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are said to have discussed the issue by telephone Sunday evening. They agreed to close ...
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UK foreign officials including Medvedev spied at 2009 G20 meetings
LONDON - Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed secrets of the US intelligence, has disclosed that Britain's electronic intelligence agency spied on foreign politicians and officials who attended the London G20 summit in 2009, a news report said. The disclosures by The Guardian may cause diplomatic tension as they coincide with the latest G8 summit being hosted by London in Northern ...
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Putin refutes allegation he stole Super Bowl ring
MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team ...
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US Taliban to have direct peace talks
The US has decided to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban, senior White House officials have announced. The first meet is due to take place in the coming days in Qatar's capital, where the Taliban have opened their first official overseas office, BBC reported. US officials told reporters the first formal meeting between the US and Taliban representatives was expected to take place in Doha ...
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Guess Who
While the title and the basic scenario suggest a race-reversed comedic riff on Stanley Kramer's sincere 1967 dramedy Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Guess Who's lineage is more directly traced to the nerve-wracked comedy of Meet the Parents (2001). Both center on decent, earn ... ...
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Man disrupts US flight by screaming about CIA
A man stood up from his seat during a flight to the US, and screamed about the CIA, security leaks and poison, but was subdued by fellow passengers, a media report said Tuesday. The disruption occurred Monday during the United Airlines Flight 116 from Hong Kong that eventually landed safely at its scheduled destination in Newark, CNN reported. Passengers onboard the Boeing 777 flight said the ...
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Putin Obama agree to push for Syria talks in Geneva
Beijing, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday held here face-to-face talks on Syria on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Britain. At a press conference after their two-hour talks, the two leaders admitted they had big differences on Syria, but they agreed to push for a summit in Geneva, Switzerland. "Our positions do not ...
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Baffled Liverpool to tell Suarez to stop Madrid pronouncements and make transfer request
Fed up with their controversial striker Luis Suarez's almost daily public pronouncements on his future, Liverpool is reportedly set to lay down the law and demand that Suarez put in an official transfer request if he remains determined to leave for Real Madrid. The Uruguay international, currently playing in the Confederations Cup in Brazil, has turned what promises to be this summer's biggest ...
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US Cuba to discuss renewal of direct mail service
The US and Cuba will discuss this week the possibility of re-establishing direct mail, suspended 50 years ago, a State Department spokesperson told EFE Monday. Talks of a "technical" nature will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington among officials of the State Department, the US Postal Service and the Cuban government, said the spokesperson. "We think that re-establishing a direct ...
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NSA whistleblower Snowden denies being Chinese spy
Beijing, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): The U.S. whistle-blower Edward Snowden said accusations from American politicians that he is a Chinese spy are a "predictable smear" designed to "distract from the issue of U.S. government misconduct", according to a South China Morning Post report on Tuesday. In the second public comments since he admitted exposing secret U.S. cyberspying programmes, Snowden told ...