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TEHRAN (FNA)- The leader of a terrorist group responsible for a string of attacks in southeastern Iran said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that he was ready to enter talks with the Tehran government.
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India Rejects Permission to N. Korean Plane
TEHRAN (FNA)- India this afternoon withdrew its permission for a North Korean plane to overfly Indian airspace on its way to Iran, just before it could take off from Mandalay in Myanmar where it had made a stopover.
Read More »Iran Aids Lebanon with Reconstruction
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran sign a grant agreement with the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction to help the Council repair the road between Naqoura and Marjayoun in southern Lebanon.
Read More »IAEA Deputy Head Starts Talks with Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- The second man of United Nations nuclear watchdog agency began talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday over the country’s nuclear program.
Read More »Iranian President Honors Journalists’ Day
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a group of journalists and media people here in Tehran Thursday night to honor Journalists’ Day (August 7).
Read More »Medvedev vows to protect compatriots in South Ossetia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed on Friday to defend “compatriots” in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia and promised to punish those responsible for their deaths.
Read More »Bush and Putin discuss Georgia fighting
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed the fighting in Georgia, the former Soviet republic that is pushing to join NATO, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said on Friday.
Read More »Russian troops close to South Ossetian capital: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Units of Russia’s 58th Army are approaching the capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, where fighting was raging on Friday, RIA news agency quoted a senior Russian commander as saying.
Read More »Georgia-Ossetia conflict on brink of full war: OSCE
VIENNA (Reuters) – The head of Europe’s main security and human rights group warned on Friday the Georgia-Ossetia region was on the brink of full-scale war and he called for a halt to all fighting.
Read More »Over 10 Russian peacekeepers killed in South Ossetia: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 10 Russian peacekeepers have been killed during fighting in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, news agencies quoted a top Russian military commander as saying on Friday.
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