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Clear winner in Macedonia vote, guns still in play

SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski scored an overwhelming election victory on Sunday but the violence that marred the poll may perpetuate divisions and delay the country’s progress towards European Union membership. Gruevski’s conservative VMRO-DPMNE party will have the healthiest majority in parliament in more than a decade, …

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Missile fired at house in NW Pakistan: residents

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least one missile was fired at a house next to a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, almost completely destroying the building but killing no one, a resident of the area said. Security officials said they had no information about any blasts in a village …

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Imam’s opposition to Israel not limited to specific time

(IRNA) – The late Imam Khomeini’s opposition to the Zionist regime was not limited to a specific period of time, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday. Mottaki made the remarks in his address to an international conference to commemorate father of the Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini.

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