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Israeli bombing leaves child parent-less
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received tonight at the Presidential headquarters in Gaza, the child Huda Ghalia who lost yesterday 7 members of her family while they were enjoying their weekend at the shore of Gaza.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/10/2006

Syrian online journalist to serve six months in prison
The Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday that a Syrian online journalist was sentenced by a military court for articles advocating rights for Syria's Kurdish minority, and criticizing the ruling Baath Party.
Syria, Politics, 6/10/2006

Mubarak, Berri discuss Lebanese-Syrian settlement
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak met with Speaker of Lebanese parliament Nabih Berri at the Presidential Palace in Cairo where they discussed Syrian-Lebanese ties in light of the Lebanese national dialogue and the resolutions reached in this respect.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 6/10/2006

Palestinian FM in Iran, gets support
In the Israeli incursion into the north of Gaza Strip, seven civilian Palestinians were martyred and 25 were wounded.
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 6/10/2006

Iran will try for understanding with on nuclear issue
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today Iran will try to reach a comprehensive understanding with so called Group 5+1 on its nuclear case in which the US and EU are seeking to persuade Iran to stop making its own fuel.
Iran-UN, Politics, 6/10/2006

Syrian, Iran cooperation in educational field, urge Muslim unity
Iran's Majlis Speaker Gholamali Haddad Adel said on Saturday that reinforcement of solidarity among the Islamic states is a historical necessity.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 6/10/2006

Iran, Iraq stress closer ties
The Iraqi official thanked Iran for its support of Iraqi nation at various times, notably, "with regards to political developments in Iraq."
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 6/10/2006

More Sudan rebels commit but not sign peace agreement
IRIN news reported yesterday that "Abdelwahid Mohamed al-Nur's faction of the SLM/A and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim once again refused to accept the deal because it did not fulfil their key political and security demands."
Sudan, Politics, 6/10/2006

US conference on Somalia, Islamists not invited
The United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Francois Lonsény Fall, has held a series of high-level talks in Nairobi to discuss the political situation in the Somali capital Mogadishu, and what humanitarian assistance is needed by the people affected by the recent fighting there.
Somalia-USA, Politics, 6/10/2006

Abbas receives pm Haniyya in Gaza
Rdaina said the President emphasized that the general referendum will take place on July 26, if the National Dialogue did not reach an agreement on the prisoners' Document for Reconciliation until that date
Palestine, Politics, 6/10/2006

Abbas briefs Mubarak on Israeli escalation
Abul-Gheit denounced the Israeli' shelling of northern Gaza on Friday June 9 where more than 15 Palestinians were killed and over 60 others wounded when Israeli gunboats opened fire at a beach in northern Gaza
Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 6/10/2006

Iran ready to send medical assistance to Palestine
Iran's health minister Kamran Lankarani expressed the country's readiness to provide medical and health assistance for Palestinians.
Palestine-Iran, Politics, 6/10/2006

Three Guantanamo Bay detainees die of suicide
The US military said today that three detainees at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died of apparent suicides early this morning.
Regional-USA, Politics, 6/10/2006

Time to withdraw UK troops from Iraq, say families
Some families of British soldiers serving in Iraq launched a new petition today, calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw "demoralized" troops from Iraq.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 6/10/2006

Muslim family angry at UK police house raid
Members of a Muslim family in east London have condemned last week's controversial pre-dawn raid on their house by anti-terrorism police, in which 23-year-old Mohammed Abul Kaher was shot.
Regional-UK, Politics, 6/10/2006

Syrian defense minister to visit Iran
Syria-Iran, Politics, 6/10/2006

Israel kills a Palestinian security chief
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

Mubarak asks governorates to meet citizens' needs
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, in his capacity as the leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP), attended a meeting yesterday with the party's parliamentary body in the governorates of Giza, Damietta, the Red Sea, North Sinai and South Sinai.
Egypt, Politics, 6/9/2006

Iraqi key ministers not part of spoil system
The Iraqi Council of Representatives (parliament) voted by large margins June 8 to approve nominees for the three remaining ministerial positions in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/9/2006

Jannati: Iran will not to compromise nuclear rights
Iran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader of Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said today that Iran is ready for talks on its peaceful nuclear program but would not compromise its nuclear right.
Iran-UN, Politics, 6/9/2006

Zarqawi's death not going to stop the violence
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the June 7 air strike, the US said, but died from his wounds while laying on a stretcher shortly thereafter, a senior US military officer in Baghdad said today.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/9/2006

Germany says 'no' to US request for military trainers in Iraq
Germany-Iraq-US Germany will not send military trainers or troops to Iraq, deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg told the media in Berlin following a report that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had requested German military trainers in the war-torn Middle East country.
Iraq-Germany, Politics, 6/9/2006

US professor on how Zionism and apartheid are alike
Corcos: I am a University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus) Professor. I am not a practicing Jew and there are no such things as races. But if races don't exist, racism does. And that is what defines me as a Jew: I have come much closer to the gas chambers than Ariel Sharon, Shimon Perez and most of the Jews who see in the immemorial persecutions of our clan and in the Holocaust a sufficient justification for their defense of Zionism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

Mubarak on rights of Egyptians killed by Israel
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak asserted that Egypt would not give up any of its people's rights.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

Palestinian Soccer Film Screened on Apartheid Wall in Jerusalem
The Israeli Committee against House Demotions (ICAHD) hosted on Thursday a presentation and screening of the new documentary, Goal Dreams, on the Apartheid Wall in Abu Dis of Jerusalem, the night before the commencement of the World Cup.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

King Abdullah holds talks with Olmert
King of Jordan Abdullah II emphasized that "the two- state solution is the only solution that we should seek."
Jordan-Israel, Politics, 6/9/2006

ElBaradei repeats same charge on centrifuges contamination
Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei yesterday once again repeated contamination of centrifuges Iran has bought from abroad to highly enriched uranium.
Iran-UN, Politics, 6/9/2006

Zarqawi killed in Iraq
US President George W. Bush said today that Jordanian-born terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed yesterday in a precision air strike by US special operations forces in Iraq, in what he described as a "severe blow to al-Qaida and... a significant victory in the War on Terror."
Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/8/2006

El-Fiki: Egyptian media capable of competition
Egypt's Minister of Information Anas el-Fiki has confirmed that the Egyptian media is developing given that it handles all the different issues on the Egyptian arena frankly, objectively and transparently.
Egypt, Politics, 6/8/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad: No compromise on inalienable rights
Turning to the achievement of Iranian youth on setting up nuclear fuel cycle, he underlined that facing the resistance of Iranian people, the ill-wishers and international egoists failed and had to admit that Iranian nuclear program is civilian.
Iran-UN, Politics, 6/8/2006

Iran, Syria consider mutual ties as strategic
Syrian presidential special envoy, Mohammad Nassif and Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred yesterday in Tehran on various dimensions of bilateral ties as well as regional and international cooperation.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 6/8/2006

Yemeni supports Iran on nuclear program
Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi yesterday said that Iran has the right to have a civilian nuclear program, which is supported by Yemen.
Yemen-Iran, Politics, 6/8/2006

Presidents Abbas, Sezer Agree on Necessity of having Fair,
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and visiting Turkish President, Ahmet Nagdat Sezer agreed today on the necessity of having a fair and comprehensive peace prevail in the Middle East.
Palestine-Turkey, Politics, 6/8/2006

Turkish President visits Al-Aqsa Mosque
Turkish President, Ahmet Nagdat Sezer visited todau Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in East Jerusalem.
Palestine-Turkey, Politics, 6/8/2006

Israeli occupation forces assault Palestinian
The Israeli occupation forces assaulted one Palestinian and arrested eight others in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus and Tulkarem, security sources said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/8/2006

House of Islamic scholar raided by UK police
The house of an Islamic scholar, a maulana, was raided in the UK in connection with yesterday's arrest of a 16- year-old boy under anti-terror legislation, according to the Muslim News.
Regional-UK, Politics, 6/8/2006

Iraq appoints ministers for defense and interior
The Iraqi parliament overwhelmingly approved new nominees for the vacant cabinet ministerial posts of defense and the interior as well as secretary of state for national security.
Iraq, Politics, 6/8/2006

US, EU edge closer to recognizing Iran's nuclear rights
The US and EU have started saying mixed statements, in which on the one hand, they are willing to recognize Iran's rights to make nuclear fuel on its own land, yet, on the other hand, continue to want Iran to stop ongoing nuclear fuel.
Iran-USA, Politics, 6/7/2006

US says Iran can enrich uranium on its soil
"The confidential diplomatic package backed by Washington and formally presented to Iran on Tuesday leaves open the possibility that Tehran will be able to enrich uranium on its own soil, US and European officials said" the Washington Post reported today.
Iran-USA, Politics, 6/7/2006

Sudan does not welcome UN troops
The Los Angeles Times reported today citing an official that Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday "told ambassadors and deputies representing the (UN Security Council) council's 15 members that he was not convinced, wary that opening the door to more peacekeepers and aid workers was an invitation to occupation of his country."
Sudan-UN, Politics, 6/7/2006

AU president: US should not support to warlords in Somalia
The current president of the African Union, Denis Sassou N'Guesso, President of the Republic of Congo held talks Monday with the US president, George W. Bush, in Washington.
Somalia-Regional-USA, Politics, 6/7/2006

Hope for inquiry into UK soldiers' deaths in Iraq
Relatives of four British soldiers killed in Iraq started Wednesday a legal appeal against the government's refusal to hold an independent inquiry into the circumstances of their deaths.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006

EU wants new chapter in ties with Iraq
The European Commission presented Wednesday a strategy paper aimed at opening a new chapter in its relations with Iraq.
Iraq-European Union, Politics, 6/7/2006

85 percent of police trained in southern Iraq, says UK
An average of 85 percent of the police force have been trained in three of the four provinces controlled by the British in southern Iraq, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has revealed.
Iraq-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006

Fatah-Hamas meeting in Gaza
Fatah and Hamas leaderships met today under the auspices of the visiting Egyptian security delegation in an attempt to contain the aggravating crisis between the two main Palestinian movements.
Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 6/7/2006

UK reminds Israel of UN call for complete withdrawal from West Bank
The British government has reminded the Zionist regime as well as the US that Israel must withdraw from all territories it seized in the 1967 war based on UN resolutions.
Palestine-Israel-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006

Israeli settlers beat up Palestinian woman
Israeli settlers assaulted today morning a woman in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/7/2006

British Muslims claim being terrorized by police
British journalist Yvonne Ridley urged Muslims on Wednesday to end cooperation with the police following the latest anti-terrorist raid that led to the shooting of 23-year-old Mohammed Abdul Kahar.
Regional-UK, Politics, 6/7/2006

Egypt supports Iraqi reconciliation conference
Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 6/7/2006

Israeli restrictions on expatriate Palestinians
"I really don't know why they are doing this to us. I am sure there is a special think-tank in Israel specialized in devising and inventing creative ways and means to torment us or make us suffer," said Adel Samara, a noted economist in the West Bank.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006

Somalia Islamic forces urged to talks
The top United Nations envoy for Somalia today called on Islamic forces, which are reported to have taken control of the capital Mogadishu after fierce battles with other groups, to enter into talks with all parties in an effort to bring stability to a country that has been torn by factional fighting for the past 15 years.
Somalia, Politics, 6/6/2006

European nuclear proposal handed to Iran
A package of incentives, whose contents has not been made public, has been handed to Iran as it relates to the US and EU desire to see Iran stop making its own nuclear fuel, and developing skills in this area.
Iran-European Union, Politics, 6/6/2006

US on the increased violence in Iraq
McCormack said yesterday "first of all, the government is not yet complete. Prime Minister Maliki is acting as not only prime minister, but minister of interior, minister of defense
Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/6/2006

Israeli soldier commits suicide inside Palestinian mosque
An Israeli soldier has committed Tuesday suicide inside a mosque in the east of the West Bank City of Tubas.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/6/2006

PLO adopts Abbas call on referendum
The PLO Executive Committee (EC) has adopted today President Abbas' call for conducting a referendum on the document of the national reconciliation, launched by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Palestine, Politics, 6/6/2006

Syria asked not to extradite Iranian Arab refugees
The United Nations refugee agency today called on Syria not to extradite Iranian Arabs to their homeland, reminding the Government of its obligations not to return refugees or asylum seekers to territories where their lives or freedom might be threatened due to race, religion, nationality or political opinion.
Syria-Iran, Politics, 6/6/2006

UAE - Iran islands dispute talks
United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 6/6/2006

Iran's leader: US wrong move would endanger oil
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said yesterday that US President George W. Bush is the most unpopular figure in the world.
Iran-USA, Politics, 6/5/2006

Ahmadi-Nejad on responding to nuclear offer
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said Iran is ready to hold "fair and unconditional" talks but rejects any compromise on its absolute rights over uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes
Iran-UN, Politics, 6/5/2006

Iraq parliament delays key ministers selection
Voting on three key Iraqi ministry posts that include defense and interior has been postponed in parliament for two weeks.
Iraq, Politics, 6/5/2006

Haniyeh rejects Abbas referendum; Hamas member killed
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that holding a referendum on the "National Reconciliation Document," proposed by the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, is a means rather than a target.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/5/2006

Mubarak: Olmert is a man of vision and credibility
The Israeli prime minister thanked President Mubarak for inviting him to Egypt and hoped that dialogue and coordination between Egypt and Israel would continue. Speaking of the roadmap peace plan, Olmert said Israel was committed to the internationally- backed blueprint.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 6/5/2006

Former security chief tells Fatah not to join Hamas
Former Gaza security chief Muhammad Dahlan said during a confidential meeting held recently in Gaza that he would "rough up and humiliate" Fatah members or supporters who might be tempted to join the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
Palestine, Politics, 6/5/2006

Europeans to give even more aid to Palestinians
EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Javier Solana, in Ramallah today said that the EU is committed to resume supporting the Palestinian people.
Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 6/5/2006

US organization raise anger of Egyptian government
Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman yesterday said statements by the International Republican Institute (IRI), US based nongovernmental organization, to a local newspaper on Saturday were unacceptable, denying an agreement between the Egyptian and American governments allowing the institute to carry out activities in Egypt without prior permit.
Egypt-USA, Politics, 6/5/2006

Somali capital under Islamic militia control
Somalia, Politics, 6/5/2006


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