September 24, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s parliament passed a provincial elections law on Wednesday after months of arguing between Arabs and Kurds, and called for the vote to be held before January 31 next year, legislators said.
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September 24, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suspected U.S. pilotless drone has crashed in the northwestern Pakistani region of South Waziristan after a spate of missile attacks by unmanned U.S. aircraft in Pakistan strained ties between the allies.
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September 24, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday in what is expected to be a tense encounter following Moscow’s incursion into Georgia last month.
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September 24, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in an ambush to the north-east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials say.
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September 24, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Iraqi parliament has passed a law which paves the way for provincial elections.
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September 24, 2008 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Former President Seyed Mohammad Khatami said he would run in the presidential elections in Iran next year if he is convinced that his candidacy has a dramatic effect on the ongoing trend of developments.
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September 24, 2008 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s resistance against bullying powers has given rise to new movements all around the world, Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Tuesday.
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September 24, 2008 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) is searching for more documents to enable the country to win the court case against the University of Chicago on the matter of the Achaemenid tablets.
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September 24, 2008 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Garden of Inscriptions is to exhibit 5000-year-old petroglyphs in a bid to offer insight into the chronological evolution of script.
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September 24, 2008 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran criticized Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for insulting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in support of the Zionist regime.
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