Baghdad: The oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk is becoming the second deadliest city in Iraq after the capital, Baghdad.
Read More »Private security guards fire on protestors in Sulemani
London (KurdishMedia.com) 27 July 2006: Early in the morning on Thursday, the private security guards of the Tasluja Cement Factory of Sulemani fired on the protesters injuring 13 people, reported online pukmedia.com.
Read More »China police say activist’s injuries self-inflicted
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese activist working to help those displaced by the giant Three Gorges Dam and left paralyzed after a beating last month, inflicted the injuries on himself, a rights group cited a police investigation as showing.
Read More »Rainstorms kill 18 in south China
BEIJING (Reuters) – Floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Kaemi have killed at least 18 people and left more than 60 missing in southern China, state media said on Thursday.
Read More »Earthquake kills 13 in southwest China
BEIJING (CNN) — A moderate earthquake shook southwestern China Saturday morning, killing 13 people, injuring 41 people and toppling 56 houses, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Read More »US outflanked in Eurasia energy politics
The United States’ global energy-control strategy, it’s now clear to most, was the actual reason for the highly costly regime change in Iraq, euphemistically dubbed “democracy” by Washington. But while it is preoccupied with implanting democracy in the Middle East, the United States is quietly being outflanked in the rush …
Read More »Why Milosevic Was Murdered
Tinpot dictator blew the whistle on the New World Order Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com Slobodan Milosevic was a distasteful man with authoritarian Communist ideals. But the reasons for his murder revolve around his evergreen willingness to blow the whistle on the global criminal masterminds who had made the mistake of …
Read More »Sunni Arabs step up calls for halt to US, Iraqi operations
BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni Arab politicians stepped up demands Sunday for an end to US and Iraqi military operations, claiming they threaten Sunni participation in next month’s elections — a key US goal. The US command announced that three more American troops have been killed. Meanwhile, some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers …
Read More »Russia helped Iran obtain missile technology: report
Former members of the Russian military have been secretly helping Iran obtain the technology needed to make missiles capable of hitting European capitals, a British newspaper claimed yesterday. Citing anonymous “Western intelligence officials,” the Sunday Telegraph said the Russians were go-betweens as part of a multi-million-pound deal they negotiated between …
Read More »Dozens dead after Chechen rebel attacks
NALCHIK, Russia — Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russia’s turbulent Caucasus region today, sparking battles that killed at least 49 people. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks, which forced the evacuation of schools and left corpses littering the …
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