Eurasia Press & News
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – Members of a pro-Kremlin youth group demonstrated outside a U.S. consulate in Russia’s far east on Monday to support Alexander Kashin, a local man paralyzed in an accident involving a U.S. diplomat’s car.
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March, 2008
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17 March
NATO says troops fired on in Serb Kosovo riots
PRISTINA (Reuters) – NATO troops came under automatic weapons fire during Serb riots in the northern Kosovo flashpoint town of Mitrovica on Monday, a French NATO spokesman told Reuters.
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17 March
Explosion wounds U.N. police and NATO soldiers in Kosovo
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – An explosion in the Kosovo town of Mitrovica wounded three U.N. police officers and two NATO soldiers during heavy clashes on Monday with Serb protesters, Kosovo police said. A police statement said the wounded personnel were being evacuated.
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17 March
Millions of Iraqis lack water, healthcare: Red Cross
GENEVA (Reuters) – Five years after the United States led an invasion of Iraq, millions of people there are still deprived of clean water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday.
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17 March
Serbs attack U.N. convoy in Kosovo: witness
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – Serbs attacked a U.N. convoy carrying Serb detainees from a raid in Kosovo on Monday, enabling several detainees to escape, a Reuters witness said.
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17 March
Twenty-two students burn to death in Iran road crash
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Twenty-two students were killed when their bus crashed with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in Iran’s southwest, Iranian media said on Sunday.
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17 March
Iranian President Ahmadinejad Meets Swiss FM
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conferred with Switzerland’s visiting Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey about bilateral relations and cooperation as well as other issues of mutual interest in a meeting here in Tehran on Monday.
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17 March
Migrating Birds in Southern Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Although winter is gone and the lush green Jungles, meadows, plains and lakes in different parts of the country are now ready to witness a return of the birds, these beautiful, but delicate, creatures of the God seemingly like to stay in the warm waters of the Persian …
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17 March
Iran Urges More Brazilian Involvement in Oil Sector
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has called for Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras to become more active in its oil sector.
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17 March
Taiwanese Scientist Wins Iran’s Khwarizmi Award
TEHRAN (FNA)- National Taiwan University Professor Wu Chung-chih has won the 21st Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) for Science and Technology from Iran for his study of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and technologies, making him the first Taiwanese ever to receive the award.
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