Eurasia Press & News
The Secretary-General of the United Nations was forced to duck behind the podium at a press conference in Baghdad today when a suspected rocket attack shook the building he was in and sent debris falling from the ceiling.
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March, 2007
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23 March
Factions clash in Gaza despite unity deal
Members of a Hamas-led police force clashed on Thursday with gunmen loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction in a second straight day of factional fighting since the formation of a unity government.
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23 March
British troops fire plastic rounds in Iraqi prison
British soldiers fired plastic bullets at inmates in a British-run prison in Iraq after several guards were attacked while serving them food, a British military official said on Thursday.
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23 March
Lebanon needs Makkah-type deal
Efforts to resolve the Lebanon political crisis seem to have reached a dead end. Leaders on Tuesday blamed each other for obstructing what was considered an imminent deal that would have satisfied the minimum demands of both the majority and the opposition.
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23 March
Police Defuse Bomb at American University of Beirut, Security Officials Say
Police defused a small bomb at the American University of Beirut on Thursday in what appeared to be the latest of a series of attempts to cause explosions in Lebanon, security officials said.
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22 March
AFGHANISTAN: Record numbers enrol in new school year
Photo: IRIN Thousands of girls go to school in Kabul KABUL, 21 March 2007 (IRIN) – Schools in Afghanistan will open their doors to more than six million pupils at the start of the new academic year on 24 March – almost double the number of the past five years. …
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22 March
Freed reporter tells of murder
Freed reporter tells of murder      Mastrogiacomo was met by his wife and children at Ciampino airport in Rome [AFP] Daniele Mastrogiacomo, the Italian journalist freed on Monday after being held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan, has described how he was forced to watch his chauffeur …
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22 March
Supreme Leader Names 1386, Year of National Unity, Islamic Solidarity
In a message on the occasion of the new Iranian year 1386, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei named the new Iranian year 1386, the year of national unity and Islamic solidarity.
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22 March
Najjar Wishes Afghan, Tajik, Azeri Defense Ministers Happy New Year
Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar Conveyed Separate Messages to the Defense Ministers of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan wishing them happy Norooz (new year).
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22 March
Armenian Nation Will Not Forget Iran’s Assistances
President of Armenia Robert Kocharian stressed the point that the Armenian nation will not forget the assistances that the Islamic Republic of Iran provided to the Armenian nation during the hard times experienced by the Armenian nation.
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