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Hackett’s News Hour

By Mike Hacket • Oct 26th, 2005 • Category: Logs

Golf in Sarajevo
(AFP)
A former frontline during the siege of Sarajevo has been transformed a decade later into a battlefield of a different kind, where bunkers no longer have anything to do with war.
Betanija hill, on the outskirts of the capital, which came under fire for 43 months during Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war, is now a playground […]


Latest News From Around The Globe

By Mike Hacket • Oct 6th, 2005 • Category: Logs

Iraq/Turkey
Iraq has asked Turkey to open an additional border crossing. The two countries are working for opening the new crossing, in a move which is aimed at developing trade between them and lightening traffic at the only land access to Turkey at al-Khabour area, in northern Iraq. The new suggested border gate would be five […]