July, 2008

• 5 July

  Russia warns of “new war” in Abkhazia conflict

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – A “new war” could break out in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia if Tbilisi uses military force to resolve the conflict, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

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• 5 July

  Russia asks Georgia to not aggravate rebel regions

  ASTANA (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Saturday to refrain from “stoking tensions” in Georgia’s breakaway regions.

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• 5 July

  Taliban fighters free two Pakistani journalists

  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants released two Pakistani journalists on Saturday more than 36-hours after they were abducted in a tribal region near the Afghan border. “When it was proven that they’re journalists and not spies, we freed them,” Taliban spokesman Asad said.

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• 5 July

  Macedonia PM forms coalition with Albanian party

  SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has agreed with the main ethnic Albanian party to form a coalition government to aim at getting its NATO and European Union bids back on track, his party said on Saturday.

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• 5 July

  Lebanese leaders close to government deal

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese leaders are finalizing a deal on the formation of a national unity government as stipulated in an agreement that ended the country’s political crisis, political sources said on Saturday.

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• 5 July

  Abkhazia says Georgia planned to take region by force

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia said on Saturday Tbilisi had planned to take the area over by military force earlier this year but failed in its mission, Russian agencies reported.

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• 5 July

  Syrian rights group says dozens dead in jail riot

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – A London-based Syrian human rights group said on Saturday that Syrian security forces had shot dead dozens of prisoners during a riot at a military jail near Damascus.

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• 5 July

  Gunmen shoot dead Afghan member of parliament

  KABUL (Reuters) – Two gunmen shot dead an Afghan parliamentarian near his home in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

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• 5 July

  Knives, petrol bombs found in Afghan prison

  KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security forces found more than 100 knives and swords, petrol bombs and dozens of mobile phones in a search of Kabul’s main prison, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.

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• 5 July

  FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

  (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 3:30 a.m. EDT on Saturday: KANDAHAR – Gunmen shot dead a member of the parliament outside his house late on Friday in the southern province of Kandahar, the government said.

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