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Cihan News Agency latest on Friday, March 29, 2013



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SOUTH AFRICA MANDELA: Nelson Mandela has been stricken by another lung infection, prompting doctors to hospitalize the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate.



EUROPE CYPRUS: Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said that capital restrictions will be lifted in the country within one month after banks opened offering limited services for the first time in over a week. Restrictions on transactions have been initially imposed but are reportedly being reviewed daily according to the central bank.



US NKOREA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un orders the country's rocket units to be on standby to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific in an emergency meeting on Friday after the United States flew Stealth bombers in a show of force to Pyongyang.



RED CRESCENT ASSYRIANS: Turkish Red Crescent gives 9 tones of food and clothing away to approximately thousand Assyrians who arrived in İstanbul fleeing the crisis in Syria.



CIRCASSIANS TURKEY: Circassians who flee the war in Syria and seek refuge in Lebanon are being transported to refugee camps in Turkey.



ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL: 32nd Istanbul Film Festival will start with a ceremony at Lutfi Kirdar Convention Centre.



TURKISH PRESIDENT TURKMENS: President Abdullah Gul will receive General Necdet Ozel, Chief of Staff and members of Syrian Turkmens Platform at Cankaya Palace.



DELIVERED



CHAVEZ HEAVEN ANIMATION: A television animation shows late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez reaching heaven and being received by many late Latin American leaders including Simón Bolívar and Che Guevara.



APARTMENT FIRE: Fatma Koçak (37) and daughter (12) who threw themselves through the fourth floor window of an apartment as a result of fire broke out in their flat in İstanbul's Ataşehir district early on Friday were seriously injured and immediately taken to hospital.



FRANCE POLITICS: French President Francois Hollande on Thursday vowed to reverse near record unemployment this year as he defended his record amid plummeting ratings and indicators in Europe's second economy.



INDIA MAOISTS BATTLE: Ten Maoists were killed in a gun battle between two naxalite groups, CPI (Maoists) and Tritiya Prastutu Committee (TPC). The encounter took place late on Wednesday night at Lakadmanda village of Chatra in Jharkhand.



CYPRUS ECONOMY: As Cyprus reels under a bailout that painfully pares back its finance sector, many bankers, auditors and accountants are facing unemployment, with some being forced to consider leaving the island for good.



OTHER EXPECTED



KOREAS TENSION: South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border as normal to reach work at a factory complex in the North that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, a day after Pyongyang shut down a key military hotline usually used to arrange passage for workers and goods. The shutdown was the latest of many threats and provocative actions from the North, which is angry over US-South Korean military drills and fresh UN sanctions.



RUSSIA NGO: Presser by NGOs as government crackdown continues.



OTHER DELIVERED



CANE TUMBLES TRACTOR: A cane belongs to Şaban Yeğen, a 63 year old who is travelling on tractor in a village of Turkey's southwestern province of Mugla Wednesday locks the steering wheel of a tractor and makes it tumble over the shoulder of the road, killing him on the scene and leaving his wife and grandson injured.



REFUGEE CAMP DEPORTATION-2-: (VIDEO UPDATE) Turkey denied on Thursday it had rounded up and deported hundreds of Syrian refugees following unrest at a border camp, highlighting the strain the exodus from Syria's civil war is placing on neighboring states.



UN TOURISM SECRETARY: Turkey's President Abdullah Gul met Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organization Taleb Rifai at Cankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara on Thursday.



REFUGEE CAMP DEPORTATION: Turkey denied on Thursday it had rounded up and deported hundreds of Syrian refugees following unrest at a border camp, highlighting the strain the exodus from Syria's civil war is placing on neighboring states.



MANDELA HOSPITALIZED: Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been readmitted to hospital with a recurrent lung infection, the presidency said Thursday, urging people to pray for the frail anti-apartheid hero.



CYPRUS CRISIS-2-: Patient Cypriots formed orderly queues and waited in the sun for their banks to reopen after nearly two cash-starved weeks, but many expressed anger at the island's European partners.



MAVEN MAGNOMETER: MAVEN's dual magnetometers will allow scientists to study the interaction between the solar wind and the Martian atmosphere, giving us a better understanding of how Mars has evolved from a warm, wet climate to the cold, arid one we see today.



TUSKON CAMEROON TRADE: Nearly 400 businessmen held bilateral meetings Wednesday at a forum organized by the Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSKON) to develop the trade volume between Turkey and Cameroon attended by Cameroon's President Paul Biya and Turkey's Minister of Economy Zafer Caglayan.



TURKEY ANCIENT ART: In Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis, women make mud into an art over the centuries with their skilled hands.



CYPRUS CRISIS: Cyprus banks reopened under armed guard Thursday after a nearly two-week lockdown but customers faced harsh curbs to stop them draining the island's coffers after its eurozone bailout.



GOOGLE NUCLEAR TOWN: Google on Thursday began offering the chance for people to wander virtually through an abandoned town deep within the exclusion zone around Japan's crippled nuclear plant.



CHILE POLITICS: Popular former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet announced late Wednesday that she is running in November 17 election.



SARKOZY JUDGE BULLET: The row over a corruption probe against Nicolas Sarkozy escalated Thursday after as the judge who charged France's former president received a bullet and a death threat in the post.



NASA UAV RESEARCH: NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has a heritage of developmental and operational experience with unmanned aircraft systems.



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