April, 2008

• 1 April

  Russia to send aid to Kosovo’s Serbs

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will send humanitarian aid to Kosovo’s Serb-populated enclaves in early April, a Russian diplomat said on Monday, saying Moscow had not coordinated the move with the region’s ethnic Albanian leadership.

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• 1 April

  Russian doomsday cult calls credit cards satanic

  NIKOLSKOE, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian doomsday cult sheltering in a bunker say credit cards and food packaging bar codes are satanic, the official negotiating the release of children from the group said on Monday.

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• 1 April

  Hamas chief says captured Israeli soldier is alive

  LONDON (Reuters) – The exiled leader of the Islamist Palestinian Hamas group, Khaled Meshaal, said on Monday that an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 and held in Gaza is alive and being well treated.

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• 1 April

  Dutch minister seeks to calm Muslim anger at film

  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch foreign minister met ambassadors from Muslim countries on Monday to try to cool tempers over a film by a Dutch lawmaker critical of the Koran and ask for protection for Dutch citizens and property.

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• 1 April

  Romania hopes for regional prominence after NATO

  BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Once a laggard among former Soviet allies in joining the European Union and NATO, Romania hopes the military alliance’s summit in Bucharest this week will earn the Black Sea state a bigger role in southeastern Europe.

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• 1 April

  Iran Urges End to Palestinian Crisis

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expressed hope that Syria’s presidency over the Arab Summit will help put an end to the ongoing crisis in Palestine.

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March, 2008

• 31 March

  Iranian Oil Companies Increase Production

  TEHRAN (FNA)- The managing director of Marun Oil and Gas Production Company said his firm is ahead of a planned program of production and is now producing 590,270 barrels of crude oil per day.

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• 31 March

  Iran Blasts Arab League Chief for Baseless Stance on PG Islands

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Sunday dismissed a statement by Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa on backing the United Arab Emirates’ claim over three Iranian Islands in the Persian Gulf.

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• 31 March

  Iran Reiterates Sovereignty over 3 PG Islands

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Sunday underlined Tehran’s sovereignty over the three Persian Gulf islands of the Greater and the Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa, reiterating that the islands are inseparable part of Iranian territory.

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• 31 March

  Iran to Raise Gas Imports from Azerbaijan

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is ready to raise the volume of imported Azerbaijani gas at least by ten times, announced a source from the National Iranian Gas Company.

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