Eurasia Press & News
BRUSSELS (AFP) — NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has rejected suggestions that not enough allies are pulling their weight in Afghanistan, as he welcomed US plans to send more troops there.
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January, 2008
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10 January
Georgia charges opposition tycoon with coup plot
TBILISI – Georgian prosecutors on Thursday charged opposition politician and tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, in self-imposed exile in Israel and Britain, with plotting a coup and attempting to organize a terrorist attack.
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10 January
Suicide attack on Pakistani police kills 22
LAHORE, Pakistan – A suicide bomb attack killed at least 22 people, most of them policemen, in Pakistan on Thursday, deepening a sense of insecurity weeks before an election that could weaken President Pervez Musharraf’s grip on power.
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10 January
U.S. warplanes pound Baghdad’s southern outskirts
BAGHDAD – U.S. warplanes dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs on more than 40 targets on Baghdad’s southern outskirts on Thursday in a major strike on al Qaeda safe havens, the military said in a statement.
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10 January
U.S. considers 3,000 more troops for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates will consider sending some 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan to thwart any spring offensive by Taliban militants, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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10 January
Mine blast kills NATO soldier in Afghanistan
KABUL – A soldier from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and another was wounded on Wednesday in a mine blast in southern Afghanistan, a military statement said.
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10 January
Putin appoints firebrand as Russia’s NATO envoy
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist as Russia’s permanent representative to NATO as the Kremlin takes a more assertive stance with its Cold War foe.
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10 January
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Frequent: Elections a Sign of Islamic Republic’s Populist System
TEHRAN (FNA) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said massive participation of the public in 28 state elections since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (in 1979) has proved the populist system of the Islamic Republic.
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10 January
IRGC Commander: Pentagon Video on Iran-US Confrontation a Clumsy Fake
TEHRAN (FNA) A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) dismissed Pentagon’s so-called documented footages claiming to show Iranian speedboats swarming US ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, describing it as a “clumsy fabrication”.
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10 January
ElBaradei Hopes to Resolve All Issues between Iran, IAEA
TEHRAN (FNA) A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency Wednesday said that the UN nuclear watchdog chief, Mohamed ElBaradei is hopeful about resolving all issues remaining between Iran and IAEA during his upcoming visit to Tehran.
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