Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Azerbaijan’s national oil company, SOCAR, said on Monday it had begun exporting Azeri Light crude to Iran to compensate for export constraints imposed by a pipeline blast in Turkey and war in Georgia.
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August, 2008
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29 August
Turkish Energy Minister Delays Iran Visit
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Turkish energy minister’s trip to Iran to firm up energy deals between the two countries is expected to be delayed by two weeks until mid-September, an energy ministry source said on Thursday.
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29 August
IRGC to Establish Separate Missile Command
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari said here on Wednesday that it is possible for Iran to establish an independent missile command.
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29 August
Iranian Ambassador Presents Gifts to Belarus Museum
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Ambassador to Belarus Abdolhamid Fekri presented the National Art Museum of Belarus with a unique Persian carpet and a silver hand-made vase at the end of his mission to Minsk.
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28 August
China’s CNPC seals $3bn Iraq deal
China’s state-owned oil firm CNPC has agreed a $3bn (£1.63bn) oil services contract with the government of Iraq.
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28 August
Israeli police hold Gaza activist
Police in Israel have arrested an Israeli citizen who entered Gaza with a group of pro-Palestinian activists.
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28 August
Lebanon maid deaths cause alarm
At least one immigrant domestic worker dies each week in Lebanon, by suicide or by accident during a bid to escape, a human rights group reports.
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28 August
Israeli W Bank building ‘doubles’
Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled since last year, the Israeli campaign group Peace Now has said.
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28 August
Georgian parliament urges cutting ties with Moscow
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions.
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28 August
U.S. forces arrest senior Iraqi official
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq’s government of members of Saddam Hussein’s party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.
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