February, 2008

• 14 February

  Despite obstacles, Kosovo says the only way is up

  PRISTINA, Serbia – After a decade struggling to prove it deserves independence, Kosovo’s hardest task is still ahead: proving it can afford it.

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• 14 February

  Showdown looms for Musharraf after Pakistan votes

  ISLAMABAD – Pakistanis vote in an election on Monday that could bring about the downfall of President Pervez Musharraf if it returns a hostile parliament with a prime minister who wants to be his own man.

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• 14 February

  Posters loom large in dour Pakistani poll campaign

  LAHORE – Security fears may have kept Pakistani politicians off the streets, but their faces can be seen every way one turns in the city of Lahore.

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• 14 February

  TIMELINE: Events in Lebanon since Hariri’s killing

  Here is a chronology of some of the main events in Lebanon since former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed on February 14, 2005, along with 22 others.

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• 14 February

  Lebanon crisis simmers 3 years after Hariri death

  BEIRUT – Three years after Rafik al-Hariri’s assassination, the crisis unleashed by his death opens ever deeper rifts in Lebanon and threatens the state and society the leader tried to rebuild after the civil war.

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• 14 February

  Turkmen leader declares amnesty after year in power

  ASHGABAT – Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov pardoned more than a thousand prisoners on Thursday — the first anniversary of his rule in the gas-producing Caspian nation.

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• 14 February

  Russian anti-graft prosecutor killed by hitman

  MOSCOW – The prosecutor of Russia’s Volga region of Saratov was killed overnight and police believe his murder could be linked to his anti-corruption drive, Russian media reported on Thursday.

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• 14 February

  Quake Injures 10, Damages 110 Buildings in Central Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA) – An earthquake, measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale, jolted a remote mountainous area in Iran’s central province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari overnight.

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• 14 February

  Iran to Launch Oil Bourse Sunday

  TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said the country’s long-awaited Oil Bourse will be inaugurated Sunday.

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• 14 February

  Iran Eager to Boost Media Cooperation with India

  TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini expressed his country’s enthusiasm for having media cooperation with India.

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