Eurasia Press & News
TIRANA (Reuters) – About 160 people, including several Americans, were killed or injured on Saturday by a series of large explosions at an Albanian army base on the outskirts of the capital Tirana, government officials said.
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March, 2008
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15 March
Turkish PM condemns bid to shut down his party
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned a bid by state prosecutors to shut down his ruling AK Party as an attack on democracy and political stability and vowed to resist it.
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Turkish police foil Kurdish PKK bomb attack: report
The arrests came after police raids in several districts of Istanbul and the seizure of bomb-making equipment and documents, the agency said.
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Top Saudi cleric calls for writers’ deaths
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this week that two writers should be tried for apostasy for their “heretical articles” and put to death if they do not repent.
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Tabloid says Putin escapes plot to kill him
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian newspaper said on Saturday security forces foiled an attempt by a sniper to kill President Vladimir Putin near the Kremlin this month. Itar-Tass news agency cited a security source denying the report.
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NATO says near deal on Russian Afghan help
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO said on Saturday it was nearing a deal to use Russian land and airspace to supply its security forces in Afghanistan, but Western diplomats denied any trade-off with Moscow to keep Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO.
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Two Afghans killed in suicide attack on NATO convoy
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of NATO-led forces in southeastern Afghanistan on Saturday killed two Afghan civilians, an official said.
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Expediency Council Reviews Annual Performance
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s top arbitration body, the Expediency Council, here on Saturday reviewed its annual performance during a last meeting in the current Iranian year.
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Spokesman Speaks of Gov’t Policies
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham Saturday briefed reporters about the latest stances and decisions adopted during a cabinet meeting here today.
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Larijani Sweeps Votes in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections
TEHRAN (FNA)- Former chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has achieved a landslide victory in Iran’s Friday elections.
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