Eurasia Press & News
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Calling graft a threat to Russia’s security, President Dmitry Medvedev released on Friday his national plan to fight red tape and corruption. The plan, published on the official Web site www.kremlin.ru, calls for sweeping legal and social reform that, fail or flourish, analysts say could define Medvedev’s …
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August, 2008
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5 August
Sectarian tension hangs over north Lebanon city
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – In Tripoli’s most deprived areas, Lebanon’s lingering political troubles are being fought out in a sectarian conflict that threatens to cause more bloodshed.
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5 August
Montenegro charges 8 over murder of 23 Albanians
PODGORICA (Reuters) – Montenegro has charged eight former soldiers over their role in the 1999 killing of 23 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo, a lawyer of the victims’ families said on Friday.
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5 August
Karadzic sees no chance of fair trial
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said it is unimaginable he could get a fair trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal because the world’s media have already branded him a war criminal.
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5 August
Rising Afghan violence threatens aid effort: NGOs
KABUL (Reuters) – Violence in Afghanistan has reached its worst level since 2001 with more than 260 civilians killed in July alone, a group of 100 aid agencies said on Friday, calling on all sides to do more to protect the lives of non-combatants.
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5 August
Iran Tests New Naval Weapon
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Monday it had successfully test-fired a naval weapon which could destroy any vessel within a range of 300 kilometers (190 miles).
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5 August
Jalili, Solana Discuss Iran’s N. Issue
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Monday spoke by phone with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.
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5 August
Iran: OPEC to Consider Oil Rationing
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hussein Nozari has revealed that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will seriously consider rationing its oil production.
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5 August
Iranian FM in Saudi Arabia to Attend OIC Meeting on Sudan
TEHRAN (FNA)- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is currently on a visit to Saudi Arabia to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
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5 August
Ahmadinejad: Iran Welcomes Serious Talks
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday described diplomacy as the only way to end the nuclear standoff between his country and the West, and insisted that Tehran is serious about negotiations.
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