DUSHANBE Cheap New Balance 574 Red , Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Tajikistan's national futsal team is ranked 58th place with 900 points in the newest global ranking issued Monday by a major futsal monitoring website, Tajikistan's Football Federation (TFF) said.
Tajikistan holds the 13th position in Asia. Iran is the top one having 1,602 points ahead of Japan with 1,399 points and Thailand which has gained 1,294 points.
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Tajik futsal team, under the guardians of coach Huseyn Shodiev, will participate in the 2016 Asian Championship qualifiers that will be held in November 2015, the TFF said.
BAGHDAD www.cheapnewbalance574shoes.com , Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Friday announced the launch of the second phase of offensive to dislodge the extremist Islamic State (IS) militants from their stronghold in the city of Hawijah and surrounding areas.
"We announce the start of the second phase of the liberation of Hawijah and all the surrounding areas to the west of Kirkuk, and as promised the sons of our country are continuing to liberate every inch of the land of Iraq and crush the gangs of terrorist Daesh group," said Abadi in a statement.
The army, federal police, elite interior ministry forces, known as Rapid Response and the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi brigades had begun the second phase of a large-scale operation to liberate the city of Hawijah and the nearby towns of Rashad Cheap New Balance 574 Sale , Ryadh, Abbasi and the surrounding areas, Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, Commander of Hawijah Operations, said in a separate statement.
The federal police and Rapid Response forces carried out an overnight operation on the al-Zab River, where the troops built a bridge and crossed to sweep the nearby villages and the town of Abbasi Cheap New Balance 574 Shoes , Yarallah said.
The first phase of the operation was launched on Sept. 21 to liberate Hawijah in the western part of Iraq's oil-rich Kirkuk province.
The operation to free Hawijah came as tensions are running high between Baghdad government and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan after the Kurdish region held a controversial referendum on independence of Kurdistan and disputed areas, including Kirkuk.
The independence referendum was opposed by many countries because it would threaten the integrity of Iraq and it could undermine fight against Islamic State militants.
In addition, neighboring countries such as Turkey, Iran and Syria see that such a step would threaten their territorial integrity, as larger populations of Kurds live in those countries.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices dropped to a five-year low under fresh selling pressure on Monday as the United Arab Emirates said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC) will not reduce production in response to the slump.
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Concerns over a global glut of oil continued to weigh on the market. The crude price has fallen more than 45 percent since June as producers from the United States have ramped up output amid lukewarm energy demand.
U.S. crude production reached 9.12 million barrels per day (bd) for the week ended Dec. 5, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The figure is just 1 million bd short of Saudi Arabia's output.
Meanwhile, Suhail Al-Mazrouei,the energy minister of United Arab Emirates, restated on Sunday that OPEC will refrain from cutting output even if prices fall as low as 40 dollars.
OPEC Cheap New Balance 597 Blue Grey Shoes , which pumps a third of the world's crude, maintained its collective production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day on a meeting in Vienna on Nov. 27. Analysts regarded the decision very bearish to crude prices. As the organization keeps production steady, crude prices could fall further.
Meanwhile, a stronger U.S. dollar and uncertainties about global economic growth have also contributed to the oil prices slump.
The EIA cut its crude price forecasts by 15 dollars last week in response to the OPEC decision and rising U.S. output, and predicated that U.S and Brent crude will average 62.75 dollars and 68.08 dollars respectively in 2015.