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Monday, January 14, 2008
Morning News Roundup
Top of the news and stories of interest from the American and global press: - Antartic ice shelf melting faster than expected. (WaPo)
- House Dems to hold Bolten, Miers in contempt of Congress. (WaPo)
- Sarkozy in UAE to sign nuclear cooperation agreement. (IHT)
- Kosovo Serbs return to uncertainty. (LA Times)
- Iraqi political factions pressure Kurds. (LA Times)
- Half of all new Chinese constructions fail energy standards. (People's Daily Online)
- Gulf states caught in US-Iran tug of war. (People's Daily Online)
- IAEA: Iran agrees to implement workplan, reveals new generation centrifuges. (Xinhua)
- Serbia, Russian gas deal stokes EU concerns.(BBC)
- US attacks UK's 'Afghan Awakening' strategy. (The Independent, UK)
- Gold passes $900 per ounce on dollar weakness. (FT)
- US, Russia plan joint anti-terrorism exercises for the summer. (RIA Novosti)
- Senior Sadrist official assassinated in Basra. (Press TV, Iran)
- Iran, Turkmenistan gas dispute continues. (Reuters/Iran Focus)
- Sarkozy offers nuclear energy assistance to Saudi Arabia. (Alalam News, Iran)
- Five Chinese banks resume deals with Iran. (Tehran Times, Iran)
- China gives 'positive' signals on nuclear cooperation with India. (Tehran Times, Iran)
- Pakistan deploys paramilitary escorts for wheat deliveries, mills amid flour shortage. (The News, Pakistan)
That's it for this morning.
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