| March 2008 |
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Georgia's president has called Russia's decision to lift sanctions from Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia illegal. 
Belarus advised the United States ambassador to leave the capital, Minsk, and recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
Palestinian radical group Hamas backtracked Friday on its earlier claim that it was responsible for Thursday's library shooting in Jerusalem that left eight dead and ten injured. 
The parliament of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia appealed on Friday to the United Nations and Russia to recognize its independence, citing Kosovo as a precedent. 
Authorities in Riga gave the go ahead for a Latvian Legion group to hold a public event to commemorate Latvians who fought for the Nazis during WWII, a parliamentary official said Friday. 
Israeli authorities have imposed major security measures in the West Bank and Jerusalem following a terrorist attack that killed eight students, the Israeli army said on Friday. 
Ukraine's president again criticized on Friday his prime minister's role in a long-running dispute with Russia on natural gas supplies. 
Russia strongly condemns a devastating double bombing in the Iraqi capital which killed at least 68 people and injured over 130, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
Foreign and defense ministers from Russia and France are to meet in Paris on March 11 for a session of the Russian-French Council for Security Cooperation. 
The Georgian Foreign Ministry said on Friday it was seriously concerned over Russia's decision to lift sanctions against Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. 



