March 16, 2008 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is planning to list shares in a $90 billion energy holding company on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX), the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) magazine reported, citing unidentified Iranian sources.
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March 16, 2008 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to attend this month’s Arab summit hosted by Syria that is expected to be dominated by the political crisis in Lebanon.
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March 16, 2008 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s conservatives have won 71 percent of the seats in parliament after legislative polls, according to partial results announced by Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi on Saturday.
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March 16, 2008 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Saturday reaffirmed its rejection of any talks with world powers over the nuclear crisis, saying it would only negotiate with the UN atomic watchdog.
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March 16, 2008 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger said the US should negotiate directly with Iran over its nuclear program and other bilateral issues, and further criticized Washington’s policy for a regime change in Iran.
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March 15, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KUT, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi police arrested dozens of members of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia on Saturday, hours after two policemen were killed in gunbattles in the southern city of Kut, police said.
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March 15, 2008 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
TIRANA (Reuters) – About 160 people, including several Americans, were killed or injured on Saturday by a series of large explosions at an Albanian army base on the outskirts of the capital Tirana, government officials said.
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March 15, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned a bid by state prosecutors to shut down his ruling AK Party as an attack on democracy and political stability and vowed to resist it.
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March 15, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The arrests came after police raids in several districts of Istanbul and the seizure of bomb-making equipment and documents, the agency said.
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March 15, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this week that two writers should be tried for apostasy for their “heretical articles” and put to death if they do not repent.
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