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- Iraq starts project to develop Saddam Hussein International Airport
Iraqi contracting companies started executive steps for maintaining and developing Saddam Hussein International Airport in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which had stopped since the 1990 Gulf War. Iraq, Economics, 8/14/99 - Palestinian national conference for discussing captives in Israeli prisons
A Palestinian national conference will held on August 29 to discuss the issue of captives in the Israeli occupation prisons and means of escalating the call to release them. Palestine, Politics, 8/14/99 - PKK denies arrest of member
The military wing of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) denied Turkish security information which said one of the party's members who was said to be planing to kill the head of the state security court that sentenced PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan to death was detained. Turkey, Politics, 8/14/99