July, 2008

• 30 July

  Karadzic’s family allowed to travel to see him

  SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s top peace envoy Miroslav Lajcak lifted a travel ban for the family of Bosnian Serb former leader Radovan Karadzic, who was extradited to The Hague war crimes tribunal on Wednesday after 11 years on run.

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• 30 July

  More foreign fighters join Taliban in Afghanistan

  KABUL (Reuters) – More foreign fighters are joining the ranks of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan as militants increasingly cross the border from Pakistan to attack Afghan and Western troops, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

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• 30 July

  U.S. confronts Pakistan on links to militants: report

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled to Islamabad and confronted senior officials with evidence of ties between Pakistan’s spy agency and militants operating in that country’s tribal areas, the New York Times reported in Wednesday editions.

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• 30 July

  FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

  (Reuters) – A British soldier in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in …

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• 30 July

  British soldier killed in Afghanistan: MoD

  LONDON (Reuters) – A British soldier was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, was on a routine patrol in Helmand province when his unit was attacked on Tuesday. He …

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• 30 July

  Karadzic to make first court appearance Thursday

  THE HAGUE (Reuters) – War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will appear before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the first time on Thursday, the court said, and will be asked to enter a plea to the charges against him.

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• 30 July

  Over 25 militants, 5 soldiers killed in Pakistan

  MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – More than 25 Taliban militants and five Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a fierce clash in the troubled Swat valley in the northwest, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

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• 30 July

  Verdict soon on closing Turkey’s ruling party: reports

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s highest court could decide as soon as Wednesday whether to ban the ruling AK Party for Islamist activities, Radikal and Sabah newspapers said.

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• 30 July

  Russian railway troops leaving Abkhazia: spokesman

  SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russia has started to withdraw soldiers it sent to repair railways in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, a spokesman for the troops said on Wednesday.

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• 30 July

  Militants kill woman “U.S. spy” in Pakistan

  MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants shot and killed an Afghan woman accused of being a U.S. spy in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, and dumped her body in a sewer, a witness and intelligence officials said on Wednesday.

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