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  China and Japan agree to resume dialogue

  World | November 08, 2014 9:20 IST

  Beijing: China and Japan reached agreement to ramp up high-level contacts, the strongest indication yet of a possible meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at next week's Asia-Pacific Economic

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  Burkina Faso leaders agree to political transition plan

  World | November 06, 2014 12:18 IST

  London: Burkina Faso's political parties agreed that the country's political transition should last a year, followed by elections in November 2015, a media report said on Thursday.But the talks Wednesday held in the capital, Ouagadougou,

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  Russia to ask UN to agree to Arctic borders expansion

  World | October 30, 2014 9:17 IST

  Moscow: Russia's Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Sergey Donskoy, said on Wednesday that his country intends to ask the UN to allow Russia to expand its land borders in the northern Arctic region in

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  Hong Kong protests thin as two sides agree to talk

  World | October 07, 2014 13:07 IST

  Hong Kong: The crowds of protesters who filled Hong Kong's streets thinned dramatically Tuesday after student leaders and the territory's government agreed the previous night to hold talks in coming days to discuss protesters' demands

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  Russia, Ukraine agree on interim gas deal

  World | September 27, 2014 11:36 IST

  Berlin: European Union (EU) Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed on an interim deal over gas supplies and would meet next week to decide on final details.The EU, Ukraine

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  US, Arab allies agree to curb flow of funds to IS

  World | September 12, 2014 7:55 IST

  Riyadh: The US and its several Arab allies agreed in a meeting on Thursday to join a campaign against the Sunni militant group Islamic State (IS), media reports said.In a joint communique after a day

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  Putin, Poroshenko agree on aid delivery to Ukraine by railway

  World | August 30, 2014 8:23 IST

  Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he has agreed with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on the proposal of delivering humanitarian assistance to southeastern Ukraine by train."We agreed that we will implement Poroshenko's plan in

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  Israel resumes airstrikes as five-hour temporary truce ends

  World | July 17, 2014 22:30 IST

  Gaza/Jerusalem: Israeli warplanes today resumed bombings on Gaza after a five-hour truce ended abruptly with Hamas militants launching rocket attacks despite hectic diplomatic parleys to broker a ceasefire to end the 10 days of conflict

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  Russia, Ukraine agree on normal gas transit until May end

  May 03, 2014 20:47 IST

  Warsaw: EU energy commissioner, energy ministers from Russia and Ukraine agreed that gas transit to Ukraine would not suffer in any way until the end of May.EU's Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, Russia's Energy Minister Alexander

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  Israel, Hamas agree on Gaza ceasefire

  World | November 22, 2012 8:20 IST

  Cairo, Nov 22:  Israel and Palestinian group Hamas on Wednesday agreed on a ceasefire brokered by Egypt to end a week-long conflict in the Gaza Strip which claimed at least 150 lives.Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed

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  Sharad Yadav does not agree with Advani's prediction

  National | September 20, 2012 12:46 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 6: JD-U president and NDA convenor Sharad Yadav today said BJP leader L K Advani's contention that after the next elections there may be a non-BJP, non-Congress Prime Minister is based on

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  India, China agree to step up defence and security dialogue

  World | June 21, 2012 17:34 IST

  Rio de Janeiro, Jun 21: India and China today agreed to step up their defence and security dialogue and take steps to achieve a bilateral trade target of USD 100 billion by 2015.Prime Minister Manmohan

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  Congress Agrees To Mamata's Demand

  India | March 15, 2012 7:23 IST

  Kolkata, Mar 15: TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee spoke to Congress leadership in Delhi to press for removal of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi and is said to have been assured that

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  Pak, US Agree Ties Must Be Based On Mutual Respect, Says Khar

  World | February 29, 2012 16:51 IST

  Islamabad, Feb 29: Pakistan and the US, whose ties have been buffeted by several crises since last year, have agreed that their relations must be based on mutual respect and pursuing common interests, Foreign Minister

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  Commonwealth Nations Agree To Change Royal Rules

  World | October 28, 2011 20:49 IST

  Perth, Oct 28: The 16 Commonwealth countries for which Queen Elizabeth II is monarch agreed Friday that males will no longer have precedence over females in the order of succession to the throne. Commonwealth national

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  India, Pakistan Agree To Resume Dialogue After More Than Two Years

  World | February 10, 2011 19:50 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan confirmed on Thursday an agreement with India to resume dialogue "on all issues", more than two years after peace talks collapsed, and said its foreign minister would visit India by July.  Pakistan's foreign