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Tehran - Iran on Monday did not rule out using force to free its cargo vessel which was last week hijacked by pirates off the Somalia coast.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Monday that Iran would rather continue negotiations with the pirates.
He said in a press briefing that Iran preferred the problem to be settled through an... |
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 IAEA’s Director General Mohamed ElBaradei expressed his concern on Monday towards Iran’s continual refusal to allow inspectors visit its nuclear facilities and push forward with the uranium enrichment program.Despite numerous appeals and sanctions from the UN Security Council, Tehran continued to defy the warnings and decided to continue...
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 Lebanese army forces launched a heavy attack on positions occupied by Fatah al-Islam militants inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp during the weekend, 11 soldiers, four militants and two civilians being killed in the clashes.The army is trying for the fourth consecutive week to oust the rebels that control the Palestinian refugee...
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 Saddam Hussein’s birthplace, Tikrit has been rocket Sunday by a powerful explosion caused by an oil tanker that was driven straight into the police headquarters, killing at least ten people, local sources informed.The fierce blast practically leveled the two-story building, trapping dozens of persons under a huge pile of rubble. Ten...
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 Saturday’s attack on an Israeli army post in the Kissufim crossing carried out by Palestinian militants didn’t remain without consequences, as the Israeli Air Force renewed its air raids Sunday against positions held by Fatah and Islamic Jihad militants. This time the targets weren’t Hamas facilities, but Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa...
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 A dozen rockets fired by Taliban insurgents landed Sunday near a meeting which was attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the eastern province of Ghazni, official sources informed.Karzai met with regional leaders and other high-ranked officials in the Andar district, in order to discuss the tense situation and measures that could...
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 Militants of the infamous Kurdish Workers' Party carried out another deadly bomb attack against the Turkish military, three soldiers being killed in the deflagration, the media informed Sunday. The blast occurred Saturday night in a southern province near the Iraqi border, four more servicemen being wounded. A few hours earlier,...
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 Kabul officials claimed Sunday that more than 57 insurgents have been killed in clashes with coalition and Afghan forces in the past 48 hours throughout the war-torn country.The insurgency is losing ground and decided to act quickly and regain some territories that are under governmental control. So, a group of militants attacked...
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Palestinian militants again resort to attacks on Israeli border posts after almost a year of peace on the Israeli-Gaza Strip border. The attack targeting an army post in the Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim was carried out by four gunmen belonging to the Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Brigades militancy groups. A fire exchange erupted when the...
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 As if political feuds weren’t enough, Pakistan bakes under a sizzling sun that raised the mercury in thermometers up to 51 degrees Celsius, scorching the life out of thirteen people in the past day.Six Pakistanis couldn’t resist the record temperatures and died Saturday in the massive populated district of Okara, where 48 degrees Celsius...
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 The Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp is again under heavy fire from Lebanese guns, as the Fatah al-Islam rebels refuse to surrender.Several efforts to end the conflict were made by Lebanese authorities until now, but the militants hiding inside the camp again sustained they will die for their cause and will not surrender and “be...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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