June, 2008

• 5 June

  Russia comes in from Cold, Medvedev says in Berlin

  BERLIN (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday in Berlin that Russia has “come in from the Cold” and will become an organic part of European civilization but wants to be treated fairly by its partners. On his first European trip as president, Medvedev said he wanted a broader …

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• 5 June

  Abbas aides say Hamas talks depend on ceding Gaza

  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not softened his position on reconciliation with Hamas and dialogue still depends on the Islamists ceding the Gaza Strip, his aides said on Thursday. Abbas called on Wednesday for reconciliation talks with Hamas leaders without explicitly repeating previous demands they …

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• 5 June

  Russia ends plutonium output at key weapons plant

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has closed down the final reactor of a plutonium production plant on Thursday as part of a deal with the United States to cut the risk of atomic materials from Cold-War-era bomb feeding nuclear proliferation. The reactor known as ADE-5 was founded by Soviet leader Josef …

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• 5 June

  Danes working with Pakistanis investigating blast

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Danish team has arrived in Pakistan to work with agents investigating a suicide car-bomb attack on Denmark’s embassy which al Qaeda said it carried out in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The attack on the embassy on Monday killed six people …

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• 5 June

  Israeli attack kills Palestinian girl in Gaza: medics

  GAZA (Reuters) – A young Palestinian girl was killed by an Israeli shell in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical workers said. The army confirmed it carried out an air strike targeting a militant near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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• 5 June

  Turkish army working with Iran on PKK strikes

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s military is cooperating with Iran by sharing information and coordinating strikes against PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq, a senior Turkish general said on Thursday. “We haven’t done it (coordinated strikes) for one or two months but we would do it if necessary,” General Ilker Basbug, head …

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• 5 June

  Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in Hebron: medics

  HEBRON (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian witnesses and medical workers said on Thursday. Witnesses said the man, Adham al-Rajabee, was armed and was fighting in a clan feud that has killed two people in the past two days. …

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• 5 June

  Syria says Israel terms signal not serious on peace

  KUWAIT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said if Israel keeps insisting that peace talks resume from scratch it would show the Jewish state was not serious about reaching a deal with Syria. Israel and Syria said last month they had launched indirect peace talks mediated by Turkish officials, the …

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• 5 June

  Assad says Syria may open embassy in Lebanon

  KUWAIT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country will consider opening an embassy in Lebanon for the first time once its smaller neighbor forms a government able to foster good ties with Damascus. Assad said Syria had raised the issue in 2005, when Syrian troops left Lebanon after …

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• 4 June

  Suicide bomber kills 13 in Baghdad

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people in an attack aimed at a senior Iraqi police officer in Baghdad on Wednesday and gunmen shot dead three U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, officials said. The U.S. military said separately that at least 10 decaying bodies had been …

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