Eurasia Press & News
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Saturday the state would not fall to Hezbollah after the group took over the Muslim part of Beirut.
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May, 2008
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10 May
Protesters clash with police in Afghan east, 2 dead
SHINWAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A least two people were killed and seven wounded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against civilian deaths at the hands of foreign troops, witnesses said.
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10 May
Afghan northwest hit by plague of locusts
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan authorities are examining the extent of an unprecedented locust infestation that has prompted local officials in some areas to offer wheat as a reward to residents for killing the insects.
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10 May
Arab League ministers to meet on Lebanese crisis
CAIRO (Reuters) – Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the political crisis in Lebanon, the Cairo-based Arab League said on Saturday.
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10 May
Clashes in Baghdad kill 19, wound 116: hospitals
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nineteen people have been killed and 116 wounded in clashes between security forces and militants in eastern Baghdad’s Sadr City district in the past 24 hours, the two hospitals in the Shi’ite slum said on Saturday.
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10 May
Suspected al Qaeda leader in Iraq arrested
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said on Friday.
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10 May
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 9
(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 9:15 a.m. EDT on Friday. BAGHDAD – U.S. forces killed 14 militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Thursday, the military said. Hospitals in Sadr City said they had received four bodies and 51 wounded. Children were among those …
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10 May
Sadr aide says Iraq government, Sadr bloc agree truce
* Iraq govt agrees truce with Sadr bloc – Sadr spokesman * Eight militants killed in Baghdad – U.S. military BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s government has agreed a truce with the movement of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end weeks of fighting in eastern Baghdad between Shi’ite militia and security …
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10 May
Iraqi government and Sadr fighters agree truce: Sadr aide
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s government has agreed a truce with the movement of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end weeks of clashes in Baghdad between Shi’ite gunmen and security forces, a spokesman for the cleric said on Saturday.
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10 May
Two foreign soldiers, dozen rebels killed in Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) – Two foreign soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Friday, military forces said, while more than a dozen Taliban-linked rebels were killed in a separate battle involving air strikes.
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