August, 2008

• 14 August

  Lebanon bomb kills 15 in attack on army

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – At least 15 people including nine soldiers were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to security sources, in the deadliest attack on the army since a battle with al Qaeda-inspired militants last year.

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• 14 August

  Russian ship barred from NATO anti-terror patrol

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO has barred a Russian ship from joining its multinational anti-terrorism patrol in the Mediterranean in apparent retaliation for Moscow’s military action against Georgia, a NATO diplomat said on Wednesday.

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• 14 August

  Rice welcomes Syria’s move on ties with Lebanon

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday welcomed as a “very good first step” Syria’s decision to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon at an ambassadorial level.

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• 14 August

  Missile strike kills nine militants in Pakistan

  WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least nine militants were killed in a missile strike on their training camp in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region, near the Afghan border, security officials and residents said on Wednesday.

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• 14 August

  Lebanon, Syria open diplomatic relations

  DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman agreed on Wednesday to establish diplomatic relations between their countries at ambassadorial level, a Syrian official said.

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• 14 August

  Three foreign female aid workers die in Afghan ambush

  KABUL (Reuters) – Suspected Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush on Wednesday, officials said, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years.

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• 13 August

  OPEC needs to drop outputs if demands decrease: Iran’s envoy

  TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi declared on Wednesday OPEC should drop outputs if global demands keep on declining.

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• 13 August

  Iran’s “equal view” of Africa persuades cooperation: Mottaki

  TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the time has reached for a review of Iran and Africa’s potentials to open a new chapter of cooperation.

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• 13 August

  Iran against any crisis in the world: MP

  TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran is against any crisis in the world and will do its best to limit circumstances producing more crisis. The head of Iran’s parliament national security and foreign policy commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks as meeting Czech Republic charge d’ affairs in Iran and discussing the US plan …

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• 13 August

  Iran to Open Free-Trade Zone on Border with Iraq

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to establish a free-trade zone on its border with Iraq, Baghdad’s Ambassador to Tehran Mohamed Meguid al-Sheikh said Wednesday.

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