January, 2007

• 23 January

  Ahmadinejad Meets Qatari FM

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the visiting Qatari Foreign Minister, Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabir al-Thani, here on Sunday.

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• 23 January

  Barrezani Promises to Help Release Iranian Diplomats

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The leader of the Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barrezani on Sunday promised Islamic Republic’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi not to spare any efforts in releasing the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

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• 23 January

  Argentina Stresses Expansion of Cultural Ties with Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Argentine Ambassador to Tehran called for the boosting of cultural and scientific relations between the two countries.

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• 23 January

  100 killed in Iraq market blasts

  BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber crashed his car into a busy central Baghdad market Monday just seconds after another car bomb tore through the stalls where vendors were hawking DVDs and used clothing, leaving behind a scene of torment, pools of blood and at least 100 people dead.

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• 23 January

  Early Palestinian polls still option — Abbas

  RAMALLAH — Talks on a Palestinian unity government will continue today in Gaza, after the Damascus meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mishaal ended inconclusively but on a positive note.

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• 23 January

  Nasrallah says rivals seek Lebanon civil war

  BEIRUT (Reuters) — Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called on Lebanese to take part in an anti-government strike on Tuesday to topple leaders who he said wanted to take the country to civil war.

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• 23 January

  Musharraf on Jordan leg of Mideast tour

  AMMAN (JT) — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was to arrive here last night for talks with King Abdullah and senior officials on bilateral ties, Mideast developments and issues of concern to the Muslim world.

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• 23 January

  Cartoonists take aim at Israel war failures

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Boosted by the resignation of the army chief of staff over the failures of last summer’s conflict with Hizbollah, the fledgling Israeli protest movement over the war has turned to new weapons — cartoons and song.

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• 23 January

  Iraqis flee capital for Kurdistan

  ERBIL — A Christian shopkeeper who walks with a limp, Adison Brikha fled Baghdad after he was beaten in his shop. He made it to Erbil, in relatively peaceful Iraqi Kurdistan — but now he’s begging for work.

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• 23 January

  EU threatens Sudan with sanctions over Darfur

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union threatened Sudan with sanctions on Monday if it refused to allow UN peacekeepers into war-torn Darfur, but rights groups and analysts said the warning was not enough to stop the killings.

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