Eurasia Press & News
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Foreign forces have killed seven civilians in an air strike in northwest Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, a day after the Afghan president said warplanes had killed 40 civilians in the south.
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November, 2008
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6 November
Hamas arrests dozens of Fatah activists: Fatah
GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group said Hamas forces arrested dozens of its activists in the GazaStrip on Thursday, undermining Egyptian efforts to reconcile the rival factions.
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6 November
Pakistan sets death penalty for “cyber terrorism”
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Causing death through “cyber terrorism” will be punishable by death in Pakistan, according to a decree issued by President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday.
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6 November
Karzai tells Afghans to keep new air terminal clean
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai opened a new, Japanese-built $37 million terminal at Kabul airport on Thursday, but said he hoped it would survive undamaged for at least one year now that it is in Afghan hands.
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6 November
Taliban release kidnapped Pakistani schoolboys
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani Taliban militants have released unharmed a group of schoolboys they abducted on suspicion of spying for the security forces, police said on Thursday.
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6 November
Putin may return to Kremlin in ’09: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could resign from his post in 2009 to pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the Kremlin, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing an unidentified source close to the Kremlin.
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6 November
Four killed by twin Baghdad bombs
Four people have been killed in twin bomb attacks at a checkpoint in a Sunni area of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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6 November
Iraq is confident there will be no hasty troop withdrawal
The Iraqi government says it is confident that US President-elect Barack Obama will not jeopardise the country’s improving security by hastening the withdrawal of American troops.
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6 November
US Academics to Visit Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A delegation of six presidents of American universities will visit Iran later this month with the goal of encouraging academic exchange, particularly in the sciences, between Iran and the US.
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6 November
Dutch Backpacker Defies US Sanctions to Invest in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Sebastian Straten, a entrepreneurial Dutchman, is preparing for the day when tourists flock to Iran.
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