Eurasia Press & News
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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March, 2008
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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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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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