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Blasts Cause Damage In Kosovo’s Mitrovica

Two explosions caused material damage in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica in north Kosovo on Saturday night, police said. Mitrovica — divided between Serbs in the north and Albanians in the south — has been the scene of protests, occasional clashes and bomb attacks since Kosovo’s Albanian majority declared …

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Obama: Mideast peace envoy to engage “vigorously”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Monday that his new Middle East envoy George Mitchell would engage vigorously in the quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace and expressed confidence he would achieve concrete results. Wading quickly into Middle East diplomacy, Obama dispatched Mitchell, a veteran international trouble-shooter, to tackle a …

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Iran to Open Joint Banks with Foreigners in Free Trade Zones

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Parliament on Monday approved a plan for opening of joint branches of Iranian and foreign banks and insurance companies in several free trade zones across the country. Hamidreza Khabbaz, rapporteur of the Parliament’s Economic Commission, said in an exclusive interview with the Islamic republic news agency that …

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