August 27, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration may be on the verge of getting what it has long sought: United Nations sanctions on a defiant Iran over its accelerated nuclear programme.
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August 27, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT — The bitter smell of burned plastic is carried on the wind with the choking dust churned up by a noisy backhoe that rattles and scrapes at a small mountain of rubble.
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August 24, 2006 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Romania, Romania News
Din nefericire, ieri am fost martorii publicării si difuzării de către diverse   surse   mass   media   a  unor  informaÅ£ii  unilaterale   si neadevarate  referitoare  la  atacul  forÅ£elor  iraniene  asupra  unei platforme petroliere romaneÅŸti aflata in Golful Persic. Åžtirile apărute in presa nu au avut alt scop decit crearea unei atmosfere tensionate, distrugerea …
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August 24, 2006 Iran, Iran News, Romania, Romania News, Romania Press
DezminÅ£irea Ambasadei Republicii Islamice Iran in legătura cu folosirea forÅ£ei armate impotriva platformei petroliere “Orizont” In vederea clarificării opiniei publice din România cu privire la divergentele apărute intre compania iraniana si cea romanesca, E.S. Dl. Aii Akbar Farazi, Ambasador al Republicii Islamice Iran la BucureÅŸti a susÅ£inut ieri, 23 august …
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August 24, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria hotly opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hizbollah, and Israel on Wednesday called the situation in Lebanon “explosiveâ€, as the ceasefire was shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.
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August 24, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AP) — Kurds on Wednesday told of entire families killed in chemical weapons attacks against their villages in the 1980s, saying survivors plunged their faces into milk to end the pain from the blinding gas or fled into the hills on mules as military helicopters fired on them.
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August 24, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Two Western journalists kidnapped in Gaza earlier this month were shown in footage released yesterday by a previously unknown group calling themselves the Holy Jihad Brigades.
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August 24, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States said on Wednesday that Iran’s request for talks fell short of the UN Security Council’s demand for it to halt its nuclear programme.
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August 24, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s President Bashar Assad was quoted in a TV interview Wednesday as saying that he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a hostile move towards his country.
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August 24, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BYBLOS — The Lebanese port of Byblos has survived the Romans, the Crusades and the armies of Alexander the Great but now it faces a 21st century menace, brought to its shores on a tide of war — oil pollution.
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