December, 2008

• 11 December

  Suicide bomb kills at least 46 in Iraqi restaurant

  KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 46 people and wounded around 100 on Thursday in a crowded restaurant near Iraq’s ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, shattering the calm during a major Muslim holiday, police said.

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• 11 December

  Pakistan vows to comply with U.N. curbs after Mumbai

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday Pakistan would comply with the U.N. Security Council decision of listing four leaders of an outlawed militant group blamed by India and the U.S. for the Mumbai attacks.

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• 11 December

  Spain protests over Greek death turn violent

  MADRID (Reuters) – Youths in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona attacked a police station and a bank on Wednesday night following protests over the shooting by Greek police of a teenager in Athens, Spanish police said on Thursday.

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• 11 December

  Greek students attack police stations in Athens

  ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek high school students attacked police stations around Athens with stones and firebombs on Thursday, injuring one bystander, in a sixth day of rioting sparked by the shooting of a teenager, police said. “An elderly bystander was taken to hospital after he was hit by a rock,” …

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• 11 December

  India says wants 40 suspects from Pakistan

  NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India wants Pakistan to hand over 40 people it believes are behind militant attacks and other crimes, India’s foreign minister said on Thursday, but ruled out military action against its neighbor as a solution. “We have given them lists of 40 persons not one, not 20 …

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• 11 December

  New strategy in Greek shooting protests

  New tactics are emerging in protests over the shooting of a teenager in Greece. In what students say is organised action, a group of about 100 young people surrounded the office of the Mayor of Athens. Elsewhere, demonstrators gathered outside the main prison in the capital and a college building.

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• 11 December

  Greek protests go global

  Demonstrations against the response of the Greek police have spread well outside the country’s border. In Italy, police blocked off roads around the Greek embassy as protestors tried to gather. The Greek police have been violent and cowardly said demonstrators from the Italian communists and some anarchist parties.

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• 11 December

  Gazprom Neft Keen to Invest in Iran’s Oil Sector

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Gazprom Neft, Russia’s fifth largest crude oil producer company and the oil arm of gas export monopoly Gazprom, has voiced interest in developing oil fields in southern Iran. Displaying an interest to win the Iranians’ consent on its wholesale participation in developing the fields, Boris Zilbermints, Deputy General …

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• 11 December

  IAEA Chief Describes Iran’s N. Program as “Legal”

  TEHRAN (FNA)- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei reaffirmed that Iran’s nuclear activities are “legal”. “Iranians are working under a legal framework. They have permitted the international (atomic energy) agency to monitor their imported materials,” ElBaradei said in a telephone interview with the London-based Al Hayat …

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• 11 December

  Ahmadinejad Felicitates Kenya on National Day

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his congratulations to the Kenyan nation and President Mwai Kibaki on the country’s national day. Also in his message, the Iranian president stressed, “Providing benefits of the two nations is undoubtedly fully dependent on the expansion of ties in all areas.”

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