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Pope Francis will travel to South Korea in the next few days

Pope Francis will travel next week to South Korea in order to pursue his desire to go to the “geographical and existential peripheries” and it will be fifteen years after a pontiff steps upon Asian soil for the last time, according to the Vatican. The visit will be...
Posted On 11 Aug 2014
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Minister of the People’s Republic of Donetsk and pro-Russian leader resigns

The pro-Russian separatists leader and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk in Ukraine Alexander Borodai, resigned yesterday after the Ukrainian government forces announced their offensive on the rebel cities of Donetsk and Lugansk. Borodai...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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23 victims from MH17 flight have been identified by forensics

The forensic team led by Dutch researchers at Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in July, has reported this Friday that twenty-three victims have been identified so far. The spokesman from the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, Jean Fransman reported that families were...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Russia grants Snowden residence permit for 3 years

Russia has extended for a period of three years residence permit former CIA analyst Edward Snowden, today announced its legal adviser, Anatoly Kucherena. Thus, Snowden can live in this country until August 1, 2017 and freely travel abroad, where it can stay for a maximum period...
Posted On 07 Aug 2014
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Israel and Hamas do not still concrete ceasefire extension

The ceasefire in Gaza meets today its third and final day and there is still no agreement between Israel and Hamas to extend the ceasefire. While Israel accepts an unconditional extension, Hamas says that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo have not yet closed any...
Posted On 07 Aug 2014
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President of the `Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo´ finds her grandson after four decades

Estella de Carlotto, 83, President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, found her grandson Guido of 36, kidnapped during the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), after searching him for nearly four decades. Laura, Estela’s daughter and mother of Guido, would...
Posted On 06 Aug 2014
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New leaks generate suspicions of another hacker in the U.S.

The U.S. Government believes that there is another hacker, as Edward Snowden, former contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA), who is filtering documents pertaining to the administration. According to officials in statements to CNN, tests of a new leak has been identified...
Posted On 06 Aug 2014
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United States General in Afghanistan dies shot dead

U.S. Army General Harold Greene, 55, was shot dead by a man in the uniform of into a Afghan soldier based in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Were injured in the shooting up to 15 more soldiers, including a German brigadier-General and other U.S. and died three senior...
Posted On 06 Aug 2014
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Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are handled

On the second day of a cease-fire that ended a month of war, Israel and Hamas began indirect talks this Wednesday on a new border agreement for Gaza. Israel wants the Islamic militant Hamas disarms, or at least ensure that no rearmament, before responding to a claim for reopening...
Posted On 06 Aug 2014
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Image taken in Baños-Ecuador between the top ranks of a National Geographic contest

The 2014 Traveler Photo Constest, organized by the National Geographic,  received about 18 000 photos from around the world related to nature and travel. The first place went to Marko Korosec for ‘Independence Day’, the second place to Agnieszka Traczewska for...
Posted On 05 Aug 2014
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