October 17, 2007 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News
Prime Minister John Howard, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd and Defence Force head Angus Houston have joined mourners at Brisbane’s Saint Stephen’s Cathedral for the military funeral of trooper David Pearce.
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October 17, 2007 Afghanistan
The Canadian government plans to extend the country’s Afghanistan mission until at least 2011 — two years beyond the proposed February 2009 deadline.
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October 16, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Abkhazia demands that Tbilisi withdraw its troops from the breakaway Georgian region’s border, a spokesman for the Abkhazian president said on Tuesday.
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October 16, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Iran, Iran News
The five Caspian Sea littoral states adopted a declaration at their second summit on Tuesday in Tehran, pledging to deny access to third countries who intend to use force against any Caspian state.
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October 16, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Russian President Vladimir Putin here on Tuesday reiterated Moscow’s assistance to Iran’s peaceful nuclear programs.
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October 16, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Iranian intelligence and security forces on Tuesday arrested three terrorists in charge of several blasts in the city of Ahwaz in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan.
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October 16, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow viewed the final statement of the second Caspian Sea summit in Tehran as a proper step towards resolving the issues remaining among the littoral states.
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October 16, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said the second Caspian Sea summit in Tehran proved that the littoral states would succeed in finalizing a legal regime for the sea.
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October 16, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed here on Tuesday that the five littoral states have now got rid of a long-standing stalemate in specifying the legal regime of the Caspian Sea.
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October 16, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the second summit of the heads of Caspian Sea littoral states in Tehran has achieved all premeditated goals, adding that littoral states have agreed to form a Caspian Sea economic cooperation organization.
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