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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s former culture minister, believed to be in hiding since last year, has been sentenced to death by hanging for involvement in the killing of another politician’s two sons, a court spokesman said on Friday.
Read More »Case of shooting nonviolent Palestinian demonstrator at point blank range reopened
(PNN) – The Israeli High Court is scrutinizing a ruling in the shooting case of Ashraf Abu Rahma. Israeli forces shot him in western Ramallah’s Nal’in Village, a town active in the nonviolent resistance against the Wall. He was blindfolded and handcuffed when an Israeli soldier shot him at point …
Read More »Sailing for Gaza Freedom
Human rights activists set sail from Cyprus on Friday, August 22, to the Gaza Strip to break the months-long Israeli blockade on the 1.6 million Palestinians in the poverty-stricken strip.
Read More »Syria Hails Iran’s Strong Presence in Damascus Trade Fair
TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria’s head of international markets and exhibitions organization Friday night said that Iran’s presence in the 55th Damascus International Exhibition was significant.
Read More »Iraq wants U.S. troops deal to expire in three years
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq wants an agreement authorizing the continued presence of U.S. troops on its soil to expire in three years, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Friday.
Read More »U.S. says hopes for agreement with Iraq soon
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday said the United States hoped an agreement extending the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2008 would be reached soon.
Read More »Activists sail to bust Israeli sea blockade on Gaza
LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – International activists departed from Cyprus by boat on Friday in an attempt to run an Israeli sea blockade on 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Read More »Iran, PLFP underline unity among Palestinians
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign minister deputy Ali Reza Sheikh Attar and an official in Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Maher al-Taher met in Tehran.
Read More »Car bomb wounds 11 people in western Turkey
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Eight police officers and three soldiers were wounded on Thursday by a car bomb which ripped through a minibus in the western Turkish city of Izmir, the local governor said.
Read More »Israel opens checkpoint for Palestinian traffic
BIR NABALA, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel, under international pressure to ease restrictions on Palestinians, removed a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that had curbed movement outside a main Palestinian city.
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