Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- The construction of the Qazvin-Rasht-Astara railroad is planned to complete by 2012, reported a source from the Azerbaijan Railway Administration.
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June, 2008
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21 June
Air Arabia to Launch Flights to Southern Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) in the Middle East and North Africa, announced that it will launch service to Shiraz, Iran, beginning June 25, 2008.
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21 June
Iran: West’s New N. Game Doomed to Fail
TEHRAN (FNA)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the new game western powers have started in the nuclear standoff with Iran would bring them nothing but humiliation.
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21 June
Iran, Cuba Sign Trade MoU
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Cuba concluded their 13th joint cooperation commission meeting by signing a memorandum of understanding to bolster cooperation.
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21 June
Gazprom Neft to Invest in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia’s Gazprom Neft the oil arm of gas monopoly Gazprom plans to acquire new assets and therefore cannot yet predict its dividends in 2008, the firm’s head said on Friday.
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21 June
Iran: Surging Prices not Affected by Increasing Output
TEHRAN (FNA)- Major crude oil producer Iran said on Friday that increased oil output would not affect skyrocketing prices after a statement by Saudi Arabia revealed that the kingdom would pump more crude to market.
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20 June
Afghans count Taliban dead in valley near Kandahar
MONARAI, Afghanistan (Reuters) – NATO and Afghan forces held mopping up operations, hunting Taliban fighters and burying the dead on Friday, after an air and ground offensive routed hundreds of insurgents from a valley near Kandahar city.
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20 June
Iraqi crackdown angers cleric’s supporters
AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) – Supporters of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr accused Iraqi security forces on Friday of heavy-handed action in a crackdown in the southern city of Amara, calling it a “clear provocation”.
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20 June
German court jails man for promoting Qaeda online
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German court on Thursday sentenced an Iraqi man to three years in jail for distributing messages by al Qaeda leaders on the Internet.
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20 June
Hamas gains attention, challenges from truce
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas has won a measure of the international recognition it sought by indirectly negotiating a truce with Israel but faces a challenge keeping other Palestinian militant factions in line in the Gaza Strip.
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