Report: 4 soldiers wounded in roadside bomb explosion in eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says four soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Turkey. The Anatolia news agency says the remote-controlled bomb went off Saturday as a military vehicle was travelling on a road in Agri province which borders Iran.

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Explosion Injures Six in Gali

Six Abkhaz policemen were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the Gali district of breakaway region early on July 22, the Abkhaz news agency, Apsnipress, reported.

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Report: 12 injured in roadside bomb explosion in Turkey

run news agency says 11 Turkish soldiers and their driver were injured in a roadside bomb explosion near the border with Iraq.

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3.2 maginitude earthquake registered last night between Malta and Sicily

A 3.2 magnitude earthquake has been registered last night at 2.35 am in the sea between Sicily and Malta, Italian news agency ANSA has just reported.

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3.2 maginitude earthquake registered last night between Malta and Sicily

Report: Iran releases filmmaker Jafar Panahi

A semiofficial news agency says Iran has released an internationally renowned filmmaker after more than two months in custody.

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Iran releases filmmaker Jafar Panahi: report

A semiofficial news agency says Iran has released internationally renowned filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was in custody for more than two months.

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Iran police vow to crack down on protest rallies

Iranian police warned they will crack down on any unauthorised rallies after opposition leaders again called for demonstrations to mark the anniversary of last June’s disputed presidential election, the ILNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

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Iran film-makers call for Panahi’s release

A group of 85 Iranian film-makers called for the release of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi, in jail since March and reportedly on hunger strike for seven days, ILNA news agency reported Saturday.

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Iran sentences top women’s rights activists to jail and lashings, arrests reformist former lawmaker

TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced in absentia award-winning women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr and another fellow activist to jail and lashes over a protest in 2007, their lawyer told ILNA news agency on Sunday. Former MP Mohsen Armin, who is a senior member of a reformist party which backs opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, was also arrested

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Iran jails women activists, arrests top former MP

Iran has sentenced in absentia award-winning women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr and another fellow activist to jail and lashes over a protest in 2007, their lawyer told ILNA news agency on Sunday.

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