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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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 At least three people were wounded Wednesday after a bomb went off in a city 17 kilometers east of Beirut, local police reported.About ten kilos of explosive were planted near a building in the center of Aley according to preliminary reports, the powerful blast seriously affective the integrity of the construction. This is the third...
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 The International Atomic Energy Agency said its knowledge of Iran’s nuclear programme is starting to diminish, as the southwestern Asian country continues to forbid the access of UN inspectors to its nuclear facilities.Even so, IAEA received news that 13 uranium enrichment cascades are being build in the Iran since members of the...
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 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary-General expressed his confidence that all member countries of the military alliance will extend their peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan despite the high number of victims.“We have a long term military and political commitment in Afghanistan and it is very important that we can see this mission...
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 Fighting continues with even more intensity in the war-torn Iraq, dozens of people being killed only Wednesday, among them nine soldiers belonging to the US peacekeeping mission.More than 20 Iraqi citizens were killed in the Diyala province when a suicide bomber detonated his deadly charge in Mendily. The blast also wounded 25 other...
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 About 15,000 Palestinians fled the crowded Nahr el-Bared refugee camp (about 40,000 refugees) on Wednesday after a fragile truce stopped the fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam, a Sunni Islamist militant group.The al Qaeda-inspired militants took up residence in the camp last year with the declared intention of fighting...
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 The Israeli Air Force is pushing forward with its attacks in the Gaza Strip, two more buildings being bombed Tuesday afternoon after the Palestinian militants didn’t cease the heavy rocket fire. According to an Israeli military spokeswoman, the targeted buildings were used by Hamas militants to store their weapons. Also, it was a meeting...
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 Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday in order to tighten relations with officials from Kabul and give the peacekeeping forces a moral boost."Terror threatens us everywhere and there is no absolute protection against terrorist attacks. This we had to learn in a very painful...
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 Blasts and clashes, two usual events in Afghanistan, killed at least 31 persons Tuesday, most of them Taliban rebels.A police officer was killed on the spot after a mine exploded in Kandahar province when a police car was passing by. Six other people were wounded, three of them being policemen. The blast caused one more fatality later...
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 Iranian-American Middle East academic Haleh Esfandiari was charged Monday with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment, state-run television reported. She was detained for months and subjected to interrogations by the Ministry of Intelligence before being incarcerated in prison, cut off from communications or visits by her...
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 At least for a short period the guns were put to rest in northern Lebanon after the militants fighting the Lebanese army called for a ceasefire that went into effect Tuesday.The Fatah al-Islam group announced the ceasefire to permit the humanitarian help reach the Palestinians refugees inside the camp. But a spokesman of the militants...
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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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