March 9, 2006 Iran, Iran News
VIENNA (AP) — Iran threatened the United States with “harm and pain” on Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme.Washington in return warned that Tehran had enough nuclear material to make up to 10 atomic bombs,
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March 9, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran Tuesday of sending Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq to make trouble, and warned Tehran it was “an error in judgement.””They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq, and we know …
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March 9, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army has increased the number of roadblocks and barriers in the West Bank by 25 per cent since last summer, tightening travel restrictions for Palestinians and making it harder for them to reach properties, markets and medical services, according to a new United Nations …
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March 9, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KHARTOUM (Reuters) — Shouting “Down, Down USA,” thousands of Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Wednesday against any deployment of UN troops to the western Darfur region.”Get out all foreigners, we don’t want you here,” shouted 21-year-old student Zeinab Kheir Al Sir.
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March 9, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KUWAIT CITY — In early March last year, women rights activist Maasuma Al Mubarak was leading a rally outside parliament to press MPs to pass a law enfranchising Kuwaiti women. Three months later, the US-educated liberal academic became Kuwait’s first woman minister, scoring the second coup in as many months …
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March 7, 2006 Iran
TEHRAN, Mar. 6 (MNA) — A group of foreign journalists has been invited to spend a week touring Iran in spring, the Public Relations Office of the 1st International Conference on Tourism and Handicrafts announced on Monday. The tour is being organized by the conference headquarters and will begin on …
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March 7, 2006 Iran, Iran News
THERAN (Fars News Agency)- The spokesman of the anti-Zionist Jewish movement of Neturei Karta stressed that the goal pursued by the delegation’s visit to Iran is to show to the world that the West’s propaganda against Iran aimed at convincing the world that the Islamic Republic is anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic …
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March 5, 2006 Palestina, Palestina News
RAMALLAH — Hamas leaders on an official visit to Moscow yesterday called talks with the Russian government an “important breakthrough” and rejected pressure on the group to recognise Israel. In Nazareth, meanwhile, thousands marched through the city Saturday afternoon protesting an incident Friday when an Israeli, his wife and daughter …
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March 5, 2006 Iran
CAIRO (AP) — The Arab League will open offices in Iraq for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion, part of its efforts to help reconcile the country’s sharply divided Sunni Arab, Shiite and Kurdish communities, the league’s chief said Saturday.
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March 5, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced Saturday that parliament will soon hold its first session since December elections in a bid to form a unity government and foil extremist efforts to trigger a civil war.His comments followed a meeting with the head of regional US Central Command, General …
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