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Maduro: Venezuela will not reopen border with Colombia unless peace ...
Aug. 23, 2015CARACAS, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday he would not reopen the border with Colombia until normality, peace and law are restored in the territory.
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World Athletics Championships opens in Beijing
Aug. 23, 2015BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- The 15th World Athletics Championships opened here on Saturday with around 2,000 athletes from around participating.
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Bolt crashes to 100m world title victory
Aug. 23, 2015BEIJING – Fastest –man-on-the- planet Jamaican Usain Bolt has kept his fans and athletics alive and excited by retaining his 100 metres world title on Sunday August 23, 2015 at ...
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Fidel Castro tells U.S. it owes millions of dollars to ...
Aug. 15, 2015HAVANA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Thursday reminded the U.S. that it owes damages to Cuba stretching to "millions of dollars", while pledging that his country ...
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US Embassy opens in Cuba after 54 years
Aug. 15, 2015HAVANA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chaired here on Friday the formal ceremony of raising the American flag in the recently reopened U.S. embassy in ...
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Weeds in the sea
Aug. 14, 2015BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tues 11 Aug 2015 - The seasonal influx of Sargassum seaweed on Caribbean beaches has got the attention of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and tourism policymakers and ...
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Over 700 casualties in Tianjin explosions
Aug. 13, 2015TIANJIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Blasts that tore through a warehouse in Tianjin's port area in north China on Wednesday night have killed at least 50 people, 12 of whom ...
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State of Emergency declared in Ferguson after gun battle between ...
Aug. 10, 2015FERGUSON, the United States, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- A state of emergency has been declared for the city of Ferguson on Monday following gun battle between police and protesters Sunday ...
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Venezuela slams U.S. "interference" in midterm elections
Aug. 9, 2015CARACAS, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela's government Wednesday rejected what it described as "intervention" from the U.S. State Department in upcoming legislative elections.
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UN chief welcomes upcoming elections in Haiti
Aug. 9, 2015UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday welcomed the upcoming presidential, legislative and local elections in Haiti, which will begin Sunday with the first ...
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Antigua Diplomat keynote speaker in Nigeria
July 31, 2015Abuja, 24 July 2015….Antigua and Barbuda diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders will be the keynote speaker in Abuja, Nigeria at a conference on July 28 and 29 to critically appraise the ...
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Cuba's reopened embassy in U.S. to fly original vintage flag
July 20, 2015HAVANA/WASHINGTON, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The Cuban government is preparing to reopen its embassy in Washington Monday (July 20) with the original Cuban flag that was taken down in 1961, ...
