Eurasia Press & News
POTI, Georgia (Reuters) – Up to 1,000 Georgians protested angrily on Saturday against the presence of about 20 Russian soldiers at a post just outside the strategic Black Sea port of Poti, insisting they had no right to stay there.
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August, 2008
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23 August
Former Iraqi minister sentenced to hang for killing
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s former culture minister, believed to be in hiding since last year, has been sentenced to death by hanging for involvement in the killing of another politician’s two sons, a court spokesman said on Friday.
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23 August
Russia plans checkpoints outside S.Ossetia
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) – Georgia said on Saturday Russian forces planned to establish checkpoints at eight locations skirting South Ossetia and Georgia’s main East-West highway.
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23 August
Georgian troops reclaim Gori – Russians stay in Poti
Georgian troops have taken back control of the main road linking the east and west of the country after Russian forces withdrew. But it is a mixed picture elsewhere in the country, and America has strongly criticised the Kremlin for maintaining a Russian presence in Georgia’s heartland.
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23 August
Case of shooting nonviolent Palestinian demonstrator at point blank range reopened
(PNN) – The Israeli High Court is scrutinizing a ruling in the shooting case of Ashraf Abu Rahma. Israeli forces shot him in western Ramallah’s Nal’in Village, a town active in the nonviolent resistance against the Wall. He was blindfolded and handcuffed when an Israeli soldier shot him at point …
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23 August
Sailing for Gaza Freedom
Human rights activists set sail from Cyprus on Friday, August 22, to the Gaza Strip to break the months-long Israeli blockade on the 1.6 million Palestinians in the poverty-stricken strip.
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23 August
Iran to Build Dam, Hydropower Plant in Tajikistan
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tajikistan has entrusted Iranian contractors with the construction of Sangtudeh 2 dam and hydropower plant.
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23 August
Iranian Army Wraps up Stealth Maneuvers
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has wrapped up three successful military maneuvers aimed at strengthening the country’s defensive prowess, a senior army commander said Friday.
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23 August
Iran-Germany Trade Value Up by 12%
TEHRAN (FNA)- The value of trade between Iran and Germany in the first half of 2008 touched 2.121 billion euros, showing a 12 percent rise over 1.870 billion euros related to the same period in 2007.
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23 August
West Using Iran’s N. Case to Bully World
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the West aims to bully nations seeking nuclear technology by creating obstacles to Iran’s civilian nuclear program, a senior cleric said.
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