Eurasia Press & News
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – President George W. Bush urged NATO allies on Wednesday to send more troops to Afghanistan, but France distanced itself from expectations in the alliance that it could deploy 1,000 extra soldiers.
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April, 2008
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1 April
Israeli Arab accused of spying for Hezbollah
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli court-martial charged a military tracker from the Jewish state’s Arab minority on Monday with spying for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
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1 April
Serbia says will hold May elections in Kosovo
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Serbia said on Monday it would conduct its May elections in the former Kosovo province as well, in a fresh challenge to the newly independent state and its international overseers.
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1 April
Russia to send aid to Kosovo’s Serbs
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will send humanitarian aid to Kosovo’s Serb-populated enclaves in early April, a Russian diplomat said on Monday, saying Moscow had not coordinated the move with the region’s ethnic Albanian leadership.
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1 April
Russian doomsday cult calls credit cards satanic
NIKOLSKOE, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian doomsday cult sheltering in a bunker say credit cards and food packaging bar codes are satanic, the official negotiating the release of children from the group said on Monday.
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1 April
Hamas chief says captured Israeli soldier is alive
LONDON (Reuters) – The exiled leader of the Islamist Palestinian Hamas group, Khaled Meshaal, said on Monday that an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 and held in Gaza is alive and being well treated.
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1 April
Dutch minister seeks to calm Muslim anger at film
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch foreign minister met ambassadors from Muslim countries on Monday to try to cool tempers over a film by a Dutch lawmaker critical of the Koran and ask for protection for Dutch citizens and property.
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1 April
Romania hopes for regional prominence after NATO
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Once a laggard among former Soviet allies in joining the European Union and NATO, Romania hopes the military alliance’s summit in Bucharest this week will earn the Black Sea state a bigger role in southeastern Europe.
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1 April
Iran Urges End to Palestinian Crisis
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expressed hope that Syria’s presidency over the Arab Summit will help put an end to the ongoing crisis in Palestine.
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March, 2008
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31 March
Iranian Oil Companies Increase Production
TEHRAN (FNA)- The managing director of Marun Oil and Gas Production Company said his firm is ahead of a planned program of production and is now producing 590,270 barrels of crude oil per day.
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