Eurasia Press & News
Behind concrete blast walls and battling a flickering power supply, Baghdad’s international film festival opened in a hotel on Wednesday in another sign of how improved security is bringing life back to the city.
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December, 2007
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27 December
Pakistan’s Bhutto vows to fight for workers
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto vowed to fight for workers’ rights on Wednesday as she took her campaign for January general elections to an industrial belt near the capital.
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27 December
Turkish woman dies from Istanbul bomb wounds
A Turkish woman who was injured along with seven other people in a bomb blast in Istanbul on Tuesday has died from her wounds, state-run Anatolian news agency said on Wednesday.
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27 December
Turkish warplanes strike rebels in Iraq
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkey’s general staff said, in the fourth such cross-border raid in five days.
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27 December
Olmert and Abbas to meet Thursday: Israeli officials
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Thursday to try to salvage peace talks bogged down by a row over Jewish settlements, Israeli officials said.
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26 December
Russia to Deliver S-300 Missile System to Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran signed a contract with Russia Tuesday night on the purchase of an advanced missile system called S-300, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here on Wednesday.
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26 December
Iran Negotiating Purchase of Tur-M1 Missile System from Russia
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said that Tehran has entered negotiations with Moscow for the purchase of Russia’s Tur-M1 Missile system.
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26 December
Iran Warns Iraq about Violation of Border Accord
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Few countries may tolerate violation of international agreements by the other side, Iranian parliament speaker said in the wake of recent comments by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that he does not recognize the 1975 Algiers border accord between Tehran and Baghdad.
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26 December
Iran’s Intelligence Minister: US Spying on Iranian Officials a Bluff
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhehee dismissed claims that the recent US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program was a product of espionage operations and eavesdropping on Iranian officials, describing it as “a bluff”.
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26 December
Iran Dismisses Britain’s Accusations as Baseless
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here Wednesday rejected recent accusations raised by British Foreign Secretary against Tehran, describing such statements as “unfounded” and “baseless”.
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