March, 2008

• 7 March

  U.N. prosecutor calls for arrest of Karadzic, Mladic

  SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The United Nation’s new war crimes prosecutor called on Friday for the arrest of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the two top war crimes suspects from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

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• 7 March

  Belarus urges U.S. ambassador to leave

  MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus, accused in the West of infringing fundamental rights, recalled its ambassador to the United States on Friday and urged the U.S. envoy to leave the ex-Soviet state.

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• 7 March

  No going back on Kosovo, says Ahtisaari

  HELSINKI (Reuters) – Kosovo’s independence is irreversible and Serbia is damaging its own interests by not accepting it, former U.N. special envoy Martti Ahtisaari said.

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• 7 March

  U.S. condemns Serb “provocations” in north Kosovo

  PRISTINA (Reuters) – The United States on Friday condemned Serb “provocations” in Kosovo and rejected Russian suggestions its Western-backed declaration of independence left the new country destined for partition.

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• 7 March

  Musharraf says will back new Pakistan coalition

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday he would support an incoming coalition government that could potentially seek his resignation, so long as peace was maintained.

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• 7 March

  Islamists protest in Pakistani cities over cartoon

  KARACHI (Reuters) – Islamists held demonstrations in Pakistan’s main cities on Friday to protest at the republication in Danish newspapers of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad that caused outrage across the Islamic world two years ago.

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• 7 March

  Palestinian militant killed in Gaza: militants

  GAZA (Reuters) – A Palestinian guerrilla was shot and killed on Friday in the northern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel, a militant group said.

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• 7 March

  Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia calls for recognition

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia made a new appeal to Russia and Western countries on Friday to recognize its independence, three weeks after Kosovo’s secession from Serbia, Russian news agencies reported.

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• 7 March

  FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, March 7

  Following are security developments in Iraq at 6:00 a.m. EST on Friday.BAGHDAD – Police said the death toll from coordinated bombings in the Karrada district of central Baghdad on Thursday had risen to 68. Another 120 were wounded in the attack, which the U.S. military and Iraqi government blamed on …

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• 7 March

  Ukraine president again blasts PM on Russia gas row

  KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko issued a new denunciation of his prime minister on Friday over her stand on gas trade with Russia ahead of new talks to resolve long-running price and supply disputes.

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