March, 2008

• 18 March

  Iran, Congo Ink Agreement on Mutual Cooperation

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s industries and mines minister and Congo’s energy minister signed a cooperation protocol agreement.

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• 18 March

  Iran Eases Gas Ration

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced Monday it would ease gas rationing for the next month, allowing people to buy gasoline above the imposed limit during a major holiday, but at a higher price.

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• 18 March

  Iran Ready to Talk on N. Issue

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini announced that Tehran has never said it would not talk over its peaceful nuclear activities.

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• 18 March

  Swiss Company Irks US with Multibillion-dollar Deal with Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Swiss energy trading company EGL has signed a multibillion dollar contract to buy natural gas from Iran’s national gas producer over the next 25 years, the Swiss company announced Monday.

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• 18 March

  Siam Cement Group’s Joint Venture in Iran on Track

  TEHRAN (FNA)- A giant petrochemical project in Iran, which will be a joint venture between Siam Cement Group and other companies will be one the largest such operations in the world.

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• 18 March

  Suicide bomb kills seven in southern Afghanistan

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber killed two Danish and one Czech NATO soldiers, an interpreter and three civilians in southern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.

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• 17 March

  Serbia says working with Russia on Kosovo response

  BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia and its ally Russia are consulting on joint steps to stop “all forms of violence against Kosovo Serbs”, Serbia’s caretaker prime minister Vojislav Kostunica said in a statement on Monday.

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• 17 March

  Hamas leader’s popularity rises: opinion poll

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli attacks in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip have boosted the popularity of the Islamist group’s leader Ismail Haniyeh among Palestinians in the territory and in the West Bank, according to a poll on Monday.

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• 17 March

  Russian demonstrators say U.S. must pay crash victim

  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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• 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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