Hours before the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due to arrive, Israel freed dozens of Palestinian prisoners in a gesture aimed at boosting Middle East peace. The group of 198 included the longest-serving prisonner held by Israel. Said al-Atabeh was arrested in 1977 and jailed for life for …
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25 August
Hezbollah Warns Israel against War with Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Israel will be targeted by thousands of rockets if it attacks Iran, a senior official in the Lebanese Hezbollah group said on Sunday.
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25 August
Iran Plans to Boost Crude Exports to China, India
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is likely to cut crude exports to some global buyers in a bid to increase sales to China and India, an Iranian oil official said.
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25 August
Leader Calls on Ahmadinejad to Plan for Second Term
TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei urged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to plan on keeping the top job for a second four-year term but called on him to keep better control of inflation.
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25 August
Iran Blasts Powers for Island Dispute
TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian lawmaker blamed big powers for provoking the Persian Gulf Arab states to use rude literature against Iran.
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25 August
Iran Designing 2nd N. Power Plant
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has begun designing its second light-water nuclear power plant, a 360-megawatt facility in the southwest.
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25 August
CBI Replaces Certified Checks with High-Denomination Paper
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s central bank has begun issuing its own high-denomination paper notes to replace the certified checks issued by private banks which will now be banned.
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25 August
Kyrgyzstan Plane Crash Kills 66
TEHRAN (FNA)- The crash of a passenger jet outside Kyrgyzstan’s main airport which killed 66 people is being blamed on technical issues.
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24 August
We will not be the next on Russia’s hitlist, vows defiant Ukraine
Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian President, was in a fierce and defiant mood yesterday as he urged Nato to respond to the Russian invasion of Georgia by moving quickly to expand the frontiers of the alliance eastwards.
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24 August
Dismissed to ‘reserve’ Yamadayev says that 20 Chechen girls left for the mountains
In his interview to Utro.ru website, a ringleader of “Vostok” (East) gang who had just been dismissed to “reserve” with preservation of “ranks and awards”, said that a number of young people, who leave for the mountains to the Mujahideen increasing in Chechnya and other parts of the Caucasus Emirate.
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