Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Pakistan’s prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed signing Iran-Pakistan’s free trade agreement to raise bilateral commercial exchanges by one billion dollar.
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August, 2008
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22 August
Iran and Kazakhstan to finalize road transport agreement
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran and Kazakhstan are to finalize a new agreement to exchange goods and passengers through roads.
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22 August
Iran and Indonesia to build a joint refinery
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Indonesian State Oil Company Pertamina will start to construct a joint oil refinery with Iran by late 2008 in its Benten province.
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21 August
Car bomb wounds 11 people in western Turkey
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Eight police officers and three soldiers were wounded on Thursday by a car bomb which ripped through a minibus in the western Turkish city of Izmir, the local governor said.
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21 August
U.S. demands Russia leave Georgia “now”
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Washington demanded on Friday that Russia pull its troops out of Georgia “now”, but Moscow said it would be another 10 days before the bulk of its force left Georgian soil.
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21 August
New judges assigned to Karadzic trial
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic got his wish for a different judge on Thursday when the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia assigned his war crimes case to a new chamber on procedural grounds.
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21 August
Israel opens checkpoint for Palestinian traffic
BIR NABALA, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel, under international pressure to ease restrictions on Palestinians, removed a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that had curbed movement outside a main Palestinian city.
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21 August
Russia says to pull out troops from Georgia in 10 days
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russia will withdraw troops that were sent to Georgia to reinforce peacekeepers within 10 days, the commander of Russian ground forces told reporters on Thursday.
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21 August
Georgian attack is Ossetia’s 9/11: Russian maestro
TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a performance of Tchaikovsky among the bombed-out buildings of South Ossetia on Thursday in a concert he said was to alert the world to the region’s suffering.
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21 August
Ukraine fears it may be the next target for Russia
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine fears it could be the next target of Russia’s campaign to reassert influence over countries it long dominated in the Soviet Union, with Moscow well placed to foment separatist feelings in its Russian-speaking regions.
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