August, 2006

• 22 August

  Iran’s Heavy Water Project to Be Commissioned Soon

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEO) Mohammad Sa’eedi said Iran’s giant heavy-water project will become operational in the near future

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• 22 August

  Iranian Envoy Terms Talks Best Way to Resolve Nuclear Issue

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ambassador to Thailand Mohsen Pak Ayeen viewed negotiations and diplomatic interactions as the best possible way for resolving his country’s nuclear issue, stressing that Tehran neither gives up its nuclear rights, nor is keen on engaging in conflict and hostility.

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• 22 August

  Iran to Build Power Plants in Iraq

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran took up in a memorandum of understanding signed here on Monday to assist Iraq with the technical and feasibility studies and commissioning of power generation projects and construction of combined cycle, gas and steam power plants. According to the MoU which was inked by the …

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• 22 August

  Italy offers to lead UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

  BEIRUT (Reuters) — Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Monday his country was ready to lead a UN force in south Lebanon, where shooting by Israeli troops at Hizbollah fighters showed the fragility of a week-old truce.

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• 22 August

  Hizbollah eyes recovery, not new war

  BEIRUT — Hizbollah may have declared victory against Israel and lives to fight another day, but with Lebanon in ruins and thousands of families homeless it may not risk provoking such a war again any time soon.

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• 22 August

  Iran to reply to nuke offer, but no sign will accept

  TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday Iran would press ahead with its pursuit of nuclear energy, indicating it will not heed a UN demand it stop enriching uranium or face possible sanctions.

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• 22 August

  Beirut asserts authority to avert new Israeli attack

  BEIRUT — While the truce that halted a monthlong war between Israel and Hizbollah entered its second week, Lebanon made an all-out effort to control its territory to ward off a new round of Israeli attacks.

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• 22 August

  Thousands stuck in limbo in shattered southern Lebanon

  KFAR SIR  — In the wreckage that was Mariam Salhab’s home, her youngest son picks through a pile of debris, finally pulling free a dust-covered stuffed dinosaur from the broken concrete and scattered children’s toys.

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• 21 August

  Israel detains Palestinian parliament secretary

  Soldiers open fire at taxi, kill 1, injure 3 outside Nablus RAMALLAH — One Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded near an Israeli military checkpoint outside Nablus early Sunday when Israeli soldiers opened fire at a taxi.

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• 21 August

  Ambushes kill 20 as Shiites mass in Baghdad

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Gunmen, some on rooftops, ambushed Shiite pilgrims walking in their tens of thousands to a sacred shrine for a major festival in Baghdad, killing up to 20 and wounding more than 300, Iraqi officials said.

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