Eurasia Press & News
The Norwegian StatoilHydro company has not officially announced that it would withdraw from activities in an Iranian oil field, Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said on Saturday.
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August, 2008
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2 August
Foreign investors active in Assaluyeh
The managing director of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) says foreign firms are active in its gas and petrochemical projects.
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2 August
US insists on weekend deadline for Iran
The US insists on a ‘weekend’ deadline for NPT signatory Iran to reply to an incentives package for suspending its nuclear program.
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2 August
Patriarhia rusa vrea in UE
Patriarhia Rusa a facut apel la gasirea unor noi modaliÂtati de participare a Rusiei si fostelor republici sovietice, cu populatie majoritar ortoÂdoxa, la procesele de inteÂgrare in structurile UE, informeaza Interfax. Demersurile bisericii conduse de Patriarhul Alexei al II-lea, ofiter al fostelor servicii secrete sovietice KGB, vin dupa o recenta …
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2 August
Rusia se remilitarizeaza si formuleaza o noua doctrina militara
Noile realitati geopolitice impun Moscovei mai multe aspecte cu care guvernantii de la Kremlin nu sunt de acord. Printre acestea se numara probleme legate de instalarea scutului antiracheta american pe teritoriul european, bazele militare americane de la Marea Neagra din Bulgaria si Romania, eventuala aderare la NATO a Georgiei si …
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1 August
Hamas arrests Abbas representatives in Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas security forces arrested Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s top Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip on Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the rival factions.
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1 August
Peace push with Syria should go on: Israel’s Mofaz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel’s peace efforts with Syria should continue, without preconditions, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert steps down, a candidate to succeed him said on Friday.
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1 August
Medvedev starts corruption battle with new plan
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.
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1 August
Russian court finds Yukos boss guilty of murders
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A top manager of the now defunct YUKOS business empire was sentenced on Friday by a Russian court to life in prison for ordering a series of high profile murders, a verdict he dismissed as the result of a show trial organized by the Kremlin.
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1 August
Egypt police kill African migrant at Israel border
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead an unidentified African migrant and detained two others while they were trying to cross illegally into Israel on Friday, a security official and a medical source said.
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