Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- World figures will convene in Tehran to attend ‘Religion in the Modern World’ conference hosted by the Foundation for Dialogue among Civilizations.
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October, 2008
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12 October
Baghdad car bomb kills nine, wounds 13: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 13 in the Bayaa district of southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.The bomb exploded in a car parked on a busy commercial street in Bayaa, a mainly Shi’ite area, police said, adding the death toll could rise.
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12 October
Russia’s Medvedev test fires long-range missile
PLESETSK COSMODROME, Russia (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russia’s armed forces.
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12 October
Lithuanians begin voting in parliamentary poll
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuanians began voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday against a backdrop of double-digit inflation and fears its once high flying economy will be sucked into the global financial crisis.
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12 October
NATO and Afghan troops kill 65 Taliban in south
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 65 Taliban militants preparing to attack the provincial capital of the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s spokesman Daud Ahmadi said on Sunday.
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12 October
Iraqi Christians flee killings
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians have reportedly fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul over the past week, following a wave of killings aimed against them.
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12 October
NYC Exhibiting Iranian Calligraphy
TEHRAN (FNA)- New York is displaying examples of Persian calligraphy in the ‘Traces of the Calligrapher’ and ‘Writing the Word of God’ exhibitions.
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12 October
Iran’s Vice President Sets Two Preconditions for Talks with US
TEHRAN (FNA)- Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said on Saturday that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the United States of America.
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12 October
Iran Denies Signing Deal with Crescent
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran denied a recent report alleging that a $2 billion gas deal was signed by the National Iranian Gas Company and the UAE’s Crescent Petroleum on Friday.
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12 October
Tokyo Hosts 2nd Iranian Saffron, Medicinal Herbs Confab
TEHRAN (FNA)- The second seminar to introduce Iran’s saffron and medicinal herbs was held at the Ferdowsi Hall of the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo on Saturday.
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