August, 2008

• 13 August

  Iran to Help Iraq Cut Power Shortage

  TEHRAN (FNA)- The crisis over electricity failure grows as summer temperatures climb and a drought plagues Iraq, and it is where Iran enters to help Iraqis where the US has failed.

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• 13 August

  EU backs plan to monitor Georgia truce

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers agreed in principle on Wednesday to send monitors to supervise a French-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.

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• 13 August

  Palestinians bury poet Darwish in emotional funeral

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance.

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• 13 August

  Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish commemorated on stage

  EDINBURGH (Reuters) – The Palestine National Theatre is putting on a play based on a poem by Mahmoud Darwish at the Edinburgh International Festival dedicated to the acclaimed Palestinian poet who died last Saturday.

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• 13 August

  Russia pledges cash to restore South Ossetia

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will spend at least $400 million in 2008 on restoring South Ossetia’s battered capital Tskhinvali, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Wednesday. Tskhinvali, with a population of about 35,000, bore the brunt of five days of fighting that began last Friday when Georgia sought to retake …

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• 13 August

  Lebanon bus stop bomb kills 18, injures 45

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – A bomb killed at least 18 people, including nine soldiers, in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Wednesday, security sources said. The bomb, which also wounded at least 45 people, was the deadliest attack on the army since its battle with al Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants …

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• 13 August

  Romanian parliament stops graft probe against ex-PM

  BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s parliament rejected a request from prosecutors to investigate corruption allegations against former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase on Wednesday, in a case seen as a test of the country’s justice system reforms.

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• 13 August

  Russia ‘ends Georgia conflict’

  Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, has ordered the military to cease its operations in Georgia and the breakaway regions of South Osetia and Abkhazia, according to the Kremlin.

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• 13 August

  Humanitarian Damages Resulting form Russian Aggression Again Georgia

  Damages of civil airports August 11, 2008 05:00 Shiraki airfield in Dedoplistskaro District on the east of the country is bombed by Russian jets. Runways were destroyed. August 9 14:00 Russian air force attack Upper Abkhazia (Kodori gorge) in several places, including the airdrome in the village of Omarishara. Runways …

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• 13 August

  Saakashvili: Georgia to leave CIS

  Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, has told tens of thousands of people at a rally outside the country’s parliament that Georgia will quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and urged Ukraine to follow suit.

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