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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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Israel Thursday began laying to rest the two
soldiers whose bodies were returned a day earlier as part of a prisoner
exchange deal with the Lebanese militant Shiite Hezbollah group.
Eldad Regev and Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser were abducted in a cross-border
Hezbollah raid on July 12 2006. The attack sparked a month-long war
between...
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Iraq hopes to take over full security
responsibilities in the country's 18 provinces by year-end, an Iraqi
official said Wednesday. 'This year will see Iraqi
authorities take over security control in all provinces. We aspire to
reach the 18th province before the end of the year,' Iraqi national
security advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubayie...
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
joined the chorus against making concessions at nuclear talks with the
major powers over the weekend. 'Nuclear technology has been
achieved by our own local experts and belongs to the whole nation and
no power can block us from pursuing this technology,' the Iranian
leader said in a...
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Two suicide bombers killed 22 people and wound
57 others in an attack Tuesday at an army recruitment station in Diyala
province, officials said.
Medical workers said the two attackers detonated their explosive
vests about two minutes apart in the attack at the Saad military
barracks in Baquba, capital of the province.
Diyala,...
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair
cancelled a visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for Tuesday morning,
Israel Radio reported. The radio would give no reason, but
one official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Israeli
authorities had warned Blair at the last minute of new intelligence
information from Gaza, as he was...
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German judges gave 10 years jail Tuesday to
the chief plotter in a failed attempt to assassinate a prime minister of post-Saddam Iraq during a visit to Berlin four years ago.
Ata R, aged 34, was convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist
organization, the radical Iraqi Muslim organization Ansar al-Islam.
His fellow plotters,...
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The Israeli cabinet Tuesday gave final approval for a prisoners exchange deal with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
Under the deal, Israel is to hand over five Lebanese prisoners and the
bodies of some 199 fighters, in return for two Israeli soldiers
captured in a July 2006 cross-border raid by Hezbollah.
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The head of the Palestinian Fatah movement in
southern Lebanon said Sunday that the expected swap between Lebanon's
Hezbollah guerrilla movement and Israel will include the bodies of
Palestinian guerrillas who fell in Lebanon or carried out attacks
inside Israeli territories during the 1970s. 'Among the
bodies that Lebanon will...
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Iran is to appoint Mohammad-Mehdi Akhoundzadeh as new spokesman of the foreign ministry, Mehr news agency reported Monday.
An official source told Mehr that Akhoundzadeh would replace
Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, who has been appointed deputy foreign minister
for legal and international affairs. Akhoundzadeh is a former
ambassador...
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Iran is unhappy about ongoing indirect talks
between Syria and Israel and believes that any ensuing peace agreement
would lead to radical changes in Syrian-Iranian relations, an Iranian
official said in remarks published Monday. Hussein
Shariatmadari, an advisor to Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, told the Saudi...
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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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