Eurasia Press & News
DAMASCUS, Syria – A Hamas official has confirmed that the Damascus-based leader of the militant Palestinian group has promised to deliver to captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit a letter from his father.
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September, 2008
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6 September
Russia accuses West of warship provocation
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the West on Saturday of acting provocatively in and around the Black Sea, where the United States is using warships to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia.
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6 September
Quake rattles Afghanistan, no casualties
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 5.6 hit Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Saturday, but caused no casualties, a provincial official said.
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6 September
Zardari wins Pakistan election
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday.
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6 September
At least six killed by car-bomb in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A car-bomb went off by a police post in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday killing at least six people and wounding about 40, police and hospital staff said.
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6 September
Georgia crisis demands Baltic gas link rethink
BERLIN (Reuters) – The conflict between Georgia and Russia requires a rethink of a planned pipeline which will pump Russian gas under the Baltic Sea to Germany, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a German newspaper on Saturday.
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6 September
Georgia war risks derailing long-term EU-Russia ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Strains in Russia-EU relations over Russia’s war in Georgia pose a long-term threat to investment flows and risk further complications when critics of Kremlin policy assume the EU presidency over the next 12 months.
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6 September
Deadly rockslide hits Cairo homes
At least 20 people have been killed by a rockslide which destroyed homes in Cairo, emergency services say.
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6 September
Iraq to quiz US over spying claim
Iraq is to ask US officials for an explanation after a new book suggested the United States had been spying on senior members of the Iraqi government.
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6 September
Sarkozy makes fresh bid to repair ties between Russia and Georgia
The French President is preparing a visit to Moscow in a renewed effort to strengthen a peace deal between Russia and Georgia over its breakaway regions.
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