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Ankara - The United states on Thursday welcomed Turkey's commitment to peace in the Middle East saying that the country had a "unique role" to play in the region said George Mitchell, the US special envoy for the Middle East.
"Turkey is a crucial ally of the United States and an important force for the peace and...
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Amman - The Jordanian government on Monday inked a memorandum of understanding with the British-Australian Rio Tinto group for the exploration and mining of uranium and other nuclear ores in the country, according to an official statement.
The document seeks to formulate the general terms for defining the areas were uranium and other...
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Tehran - A senior Iranian reformist has defended presidential candidate Mohammad Khatami after a picture circulated on the internet of him shaking hands with a woman during a foreign trip, the Fars news agency reported Thursday.
Shaking hands with women in public is strictly forbidden in Iran, especially for officials, as according to...
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Islamabad - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to Islamabad scheduled for Thursday was postponed because of bad weather in Kabul, Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Ministry said.
"A new date for the visit will be announced soon," ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said.
Karzai had been scheduled to hold talks with...
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Oslo - The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan aired disappointment Thursday over the European Union's efforts to train more police officers in Afghanistan and improve Afghanistan's justice system.
"I had hoped the EU would have been more active at an earlier stage," UN envoy Kai Eide said in an interview Thursday...
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Jakarta - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday in a visit intended to demonstrate US determination to mend ties with the Islamic world.
Security has been heightened in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, with armed soldiers and police on alert on major streets and at the Foreign Ministry building,...
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Kabul - A provincial spokesman said Wednesday that Taliban militants killed two male students for greeting a group of NATO soldiers in central Afghanistan, but the rebel website said they were executed for spying.
Ahmad Khalid, 20, and Eid Gul, 19, students at a high school in Sayed Abad district of the central province of...
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Tehran - A bomb exploded on Wednesday in a mosque in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, Fars news agency reported.
Fars said the bomb exploded in the Al-Qadir mosque in downtown Zahedan but gave no further details on extent of damages or probable casualties.
There has been no official confirmation yet on the...
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Kabul - A British soldier was killed while on patrol in southern Afghanistan while Afghan and US-led forces killed at least seven insurgents, including commanders, officials said Tuesday.
The British soldier died of wounds he received Monday in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, the British Defence Ministry said in a...
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Tel Aviv - Palestinian militants fired two Gaza-made rockets at southern Israel Monday, an Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said.
One of the rockets landed near a kibbutz (agricultural commune), while the second had yet to be tracked down.
Another rocket was also fired at the area late Sunday.
The rocket fire - to which...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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