Eurasia Press & News
RIGA (Reuters) – Latvia favors the suspension of talks on a new cooperation pact between the European Union and Russia until Moscow has withdrawn its troops from Georgia, the Baltic state’s foreign minister said on Friday.
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29 August
Georgia cuts diplomatic ties with Russia
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia said on Friday it was cutting diplomatic ties with Russia over the Kremlin’s recognition of two Georgian rebel regions as independent states.”We have received instructions at the Foreign Ministry and we will cut diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation,” Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze told reporters.
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29 August
Russia says will ensure oil to flow to Europe
DUSHANBE/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s energy minister and a top oil company denied on Friday they were preparing to cut oil flows to Europe in response to threatened sanctions, a step Moscow never took even at the height of the Cold War.
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29 August
Turkish factory blast kills two people: report
ANKARA (Reuters) – An explosion rocked a gunpowder factory in central Turkey on Friday, killing two people and injuring another 12, Turkish broadcasters reported.
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29 August
Hottest Point on Earth Registered in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A documentary film group registered the hottest point on Earth in the district of Gandom-Berian (Parched corn) in Shahdad desert in Kerman province with the temperature of 63 degrees centigrade on Wednesday.
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29 August
Minister Terms Developing Post-Graduate Program as Basic Strategy
TEHRAN (FNA)- Developing science and technology is impossible without promoting post-graduate education, Iranian Science Minister Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi said.
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29 August
Russia Underlines Iran’s N. Rights
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said no one doubts Iran’s right to use peaceful nuclear energy in accordance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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29 August
Leader Highlights Momentous Task of Experts Assembly
TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Thursday highlighted momentous task of the Assembly of Experts as the top policy making body envisaged in the Constitution.
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29 August
Int’l Quran Exhibition Starts Work
TEHRAN (FNA)- The 16th Tehran International Holy Quran Exhibition opened here on Friday with the opening speech by the Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Safar Harandi.
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29 August
Iran, Indonesia to Set up Direct Flights
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Indonesia are to sign a memorandum of understanding to establish direct flights between the two countries, an Iranian official said.
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