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(SomaliNet) Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme will resume on Dec. 18 after more than a year's suspension, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The resumption would end a 13-month boycott of the talks by North Korea, which was protesting U.S. financial sanctions.
Py
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(SomaliNet) Nine patients of a clinic for the mentally ill in Siberia died in a fire Sunday, a day after a blaze at a Moscow drug treatment centre killed 45, officials said. The fire in the psychiatric hospital in the town of Taiga in the Kemerovo region in central Siberia, about
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(SomaliNet) One contract serviceman was wounded in an attack on a Russian military convoy in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, local law enforcers said Monday. The incident took place late Sunday in the Shatoi district, about 30 miles to the sout
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(SomaliNet) Iran on Monday opened a two-day conference exploring the validity of the Nazi Holocaust, a move that has sparked outrage among Jewish groups. One such group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, planned to counter the event with a teleconference showcasing stories from Holocau
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(SomaliNet) The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has discovered a huge weapon cache and destroyed it in Afghanistan eastern Nooristan province, a statement of the multinational force received Monday said.
A patrol found a weapon cache in the Nurgaram dis
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(SomaliNet) Australian winger Wendell Sailor has withdrawn his appeal against a two-year dope ban from the Court of Administration for Sport, his lawyers said on Monday. The 32-year-old Sailor was suspended by the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) in July when it was revealed he tested
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(SomaliNet) A jumbo United Nations (UN) mission held its first meeting in Nepal, setting out on a week-long mission on Monday to find out practicalities of getting real UN monitors on the ground in Nepal. A 31-member mission headed by Ian Martin, who is the UN Secretary-General's
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(SomaliNet) Gunmen kidnapped four bank employees outside their bank in central Baghdad on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said.
"Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms attacked the four employees in their armored minibus outside the Warkaa Bank in Sa'adoun Street, kidnapping t
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(SomaliNet) Iraq reopened its embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday after a quarter century's rupture with its neighbor. Syrian and Iraqi officials attended the flag-raising ceremony in the Iraqi embassy in downtown Damascus.
"We are pleased with the event, and
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(SomaliNet) Seven people were injured on Monday when an explosion occurred in a military residential building in Diyarbakir province in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The injured were taken to military hospitals for treatment, said Anatol
