Archive for March 23rd, 2008
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Olympic boycotts are a clumsy and biased weapon, Gregory Clark, formerly China desk officer in the Australian Department of External Affairs, said in an article published on Japan Times Friday.
Commenting on the attempts to politici ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said here Sunday that he would support the new government.
Speaking at a military parade marking the 68th Pakistan Day in the federal capital, Musharraf said that the new government would continu ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Two soldiers of the U.S.-led Coalition forces have been killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghan province of Kandahar, said a Coalition statement released here on Sunday.
Coalition forces, along with Afghan N ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
A landslide in Indonesian West Sumatra province of Sumatra Island on Saturday evening blocked transportation with nearby provinces, National Disaster Management Agency said here Sunday.
A kiosk and a truck were buried by the landsli ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
The Philippine officials in Metro Manila will have tens of thousands of shanties demolished near a big lake close to Manila due to deteriorating water pollution by the squatters, reported local television network GMA News on Sunday.
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators were arrested on Saturday at NATO headquarters as many of the protesters tried to enter the compound, organizers of the protest said.
The protest took place on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrapped up his three-day Mideast tour on Saturday by receiving skepticism from Israel about a Middle East peace conference in Moscow while finding echoes from Syria and the Palestinian National Authori ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Saturday landed at Ben Gurion International Airport, where Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni welcomed him, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on its website.
Cheney is scheduled to remain in Isr ...
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