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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Concerned Barack Obama May Act Before Leaving Office
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed concern President Barack Obama may take action Israel opposes at the United Nations before leaving office as US criticism of its settlement building intensifies.
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Nations Engaged In 'Proxy Wars' Must End Them, Says Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked nations engaged in "proxy wars" to end them, warning that if communities are not allowed to co-exist, the "embers of extremism will continue to burn" causing sufferings to countless human beings and export of extremism overseas.
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Barack Obama Cautious On Syria Plan As Opposition Yet To Commit
US President Barack Obama expressed caution on Wednesday about a plan to stop fighting in Syria, while the main opposition group said it had yet to commit to the deal.
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Pope Francis Visits Poor and Young in Kenya Slum on Africa Tour
Pope Francis won a rapturous welcome today as he visited a congested Kenyan slum to convey a message of solidarity with the poor and underprivileged, a highlight of his three-nation Africa tour.
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China Says Keeping Leaders Away is Key to Climate Talk Success
Keeping state leaders away from the negotiations will play a major role in ensuring that crucial talks on a new global climate deal in Paris next week proceed smoothly, China's top climate change negotiator said in an interview today.
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Vladimir Putin Heads For UN Showdown With Barack Obama Over Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin will square off Monday with US rival Barack Obama at the United Nations, as the Kremlin leader pushes for a new coalition against the Islamic State.
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Barack Obama Calls for 'Strong' Climate Deal in Paris
US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged world leaders to step up efforts for a "strong" climate agreement at year-end talks in Paris.
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United Nation Security Council Endorses Iran Nuclear Deal
The United Nations Security Council has endorsed a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, but it will be able to re-impose UN penalties during the next decade if Tehran breaches the historic agreement.
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US Urges Europe, Asia to Do More for UN Peacekeeping
The United States is urging countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia to commit more to U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world as Washington considers where it might be able to do the same, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Friday.
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Barack Obama Acknowledges US 'Racial Tensions' in UN Speech
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday acknowledged that the United States had its own racial and ethnic tensions, in a speech at the United Nations mainly focused on world conflicts.
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Obama Calls for Dismantling Islamic State's 'Network of Death'
Declaring the world at a "crossroads between war and peace," President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State militant group's "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action in the region.
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Barack Obama Urges World to Follow US Lead on Climate
The only thing rising faster than heat-trapping gases on Tuesday were the statements of urgency by world leaders, who told each other at a United Nations summit how seriously they take global warming. Binding commitments and action are to come.
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Barack Obama to Address the United Nations Amid New Mideast Strikes
President Barack Obama will be addressing the United Nations as a commander in chief overseeing a war against militants in two Middle Eastern nations, a striking shift in the trajectory of a presidency that had been focused on ending conflicts in the region.
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US Weighs Options to Evacuate Desperate Yazidis from Iraqi Mountain
The United States is exploring options to evacuate thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped on a barren mountain in northern Iraq by Islamic militants, after four nights of humanitarian relief airdrops, US officials said on Sunday.
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PM Modi Likely to Address UN General Assembly on September 27
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, giving his first global speech to an audience of nearly 200 world leaders and foreign ministers at the annual gathering of the world body's policy-making organ.
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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Concerned Barack Obama May Act Before Leaving Office
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed concern President Barack Obama may take action Israel opposes at the United Nations before leaving office as US criticism of its settlement building intensifies.
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Nations Engaged In 'Proxy Wars' Must End Them, Says Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked nations engaged in "proxy wars" to end them, warning that if communities are not allowed to co-exist, the "embers of extremism will continue to burn" causing sufferings to countless human beings and export of extremism overseas.
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Barack Obama Cautious On Syria Plan As Opposition Yet To Commit
US President Barack Obama expressed caution on Wednesday about a plan to stop fighting in Syria, while the main opposition group said it had yet to commit to the deal.
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Pope Francis Visits Poor and Young in Kenya Slum on Africa Tour
Pope Francis won a rapturous welcome today as he visited a congested Kenyan slum to convey a message of solidarity with the poor and underprivileged, a highlight of his three-nation Africa tour.
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China Says Keeping Leaders Away is Key to Climate Talk Success
Keeping state leaders away from the negotiations will play a major role in ensuring that crucial talks on a new global climate deal in Paris next week proceed smoothly, China's top climate change negotiator said in an interview today.
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Vladimir Putin Heads For UN Showdown With Barack Obama Over Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin will square off Monday with US rival Barack Obama at the United Nations, as the Kremlin leader pushes for a new coalition against the Islamic State.
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Barack Obama Calls for 'Strong' Climate Deal in Paris
US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged world leaders to step up efforts for a "strong" climate agreement at year-end talks in Paris.
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United Nation Security Council Endorses Iran Nuclear Deal
The United Nations Security Council has endorsed a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, but it will be able to re-impose UN penalties during the next decade if Tehran breaches the historic agreement.
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US Urges Europe, Asia to Do More for UN Peacekeeping
The United States is urging countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia to commit more to U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world as Washington considers where it might be able to do the same, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Friday.
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Barack Obama Acknowledges US 'Racial Tensions' in UN Speech
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday acknowledged that the United States had its own racial and ethnic tensions, in a speech at the United Nations mainly focused on world conflicts.
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Obama Calls for Dismantling Islamic State's 'Network of Death'
Declaring the world at a "crossroads between war and peace," President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State militant group's "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action in the region.
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Barack Obama Urges World to Follow US Lead on Climate
The only thing rising faster than heat-trapping gases on Tuesday were the statements of urgency by world leaders, who told each other at a United Nations summit how seriously they take global warming. Binding commitments and action are to come.
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Barack Obama to Address the United Nations Amid New Mideast Strikes
President Barack Obama will be addressing the United Nations as a commander in chief overseeing a war against militants in two Middle Eastern nations, a striking shift in the trajectory of a presidency that had been focused on ending conflicts in the region.
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US Weighs Options to Evacuate Desperate Yazidis from Iraqi Mountain
The United States is exploring options to evacuate thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped on a barren mountain in northern Iraq by Islamic militants, after four nights of humanitarian relief airdrops, US officials said on Sunday.
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PM Modi Likely to Address UN General Assembly on September 27
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, giving his first global speech to an audience of nearly 200 world leaders and foreign ministers at the annual gathering of the world body's policy-making organ.
