June, 2008

• 4 June

  Musharraf seen reconciled to exit

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, threatened by possible impeachment, is reconciled to stepping down before he is hounded out of office, according to a senior adviser to the new government. U.S. ally Musharraf, who came to power as a general after a coup in 1999, has probably got …

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• 3 June

  Russian president replaces military chief

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday replaced the armed forces’ chief of general staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky, who had clashed with the defense minister, a former tax official with no military background. Baluyevsky’s post was a powerful one in the state hierarchy — besides the president and …

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• 3 June

  Bosnia search for missing becomes global resource

  SARAJEVO (Reuters) – An agency set up to identify the dead of the Yugoslav wars is now sharing its missing persons expertise with nations including Lebanon, Colombia and Iraq. “Effectively, we have the biggest human identification laboratory in the world,” Kathryne Bomberger, the head of the Sarajevo-based International Commission for …

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• 3 June

  Bosnian Serb arrested over Srebrenica massacre

  SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnian police have arrested a Bosnian Serb policeman suspected of taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, the office of the war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday.

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• 3 June

  Syria says wants nuclear energy under Arab umbrella

  DUBAI (Reuters) – Syria is not seeking nuclear weapons but wants to have access to atomic energy for peaceful purposes through a collective Arab project, President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Tuesday. The Dubai-based Gulf News also quoted Assad as saying that the United States should have sought …

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• 3 June

  FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

  (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1530 GMT (11:30 a.m. EDT) on Tuesday: *denotes new or updated item *BAGHDAD -Iraqi security forces and multinational soldiers killed four militants in operations on Monday, the U.S. military said.

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• 3 June

  Deadly Pakistan embassy bomb raises security fears

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A day after a bomb attack outside the Danish embassy, Pakistani investigators questioned residents and tested the residue of the explosives used, while suspicion for the blast fell on al Qaeda or its allies. Monday’s suicide car bombing in the capital, Islamabad, followed a relative lull in …

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• 3 June

  Five Pakistan children die playing with mortar ammo

  QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Five children died when a mortar shell they were playing with exploded in the southeastern city of Quetta, while a landmine killed four people in Pakistan’s Kurram tribal region on Tuesday, officials said.

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• 3 June

  Iraqi families returning to parts of Baghdad: agency

  GENEVA (Reuters) – Iraqi families who fled recent sectarian violence and military operations are returning in numbers to certain areas of Baghdad where security has improved, an international aid agency said on Tuesday. An estimated 4,000 families or 24,000 Iraqis who fled fighting between security forces and Shi’ite militiamen during …

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• 3 June

  Israeli strikes in Gaza after rocket barrage

  GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike injured three Islamic Jihad militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday after cross-border rockets fired from the territory wounded five Israelis. One of the Islamic Jihad militants was critically injured in the air strike near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, …

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