January, 2008

• 7 January

  Rush to publish Bhutto’s last book

  LONDON – HarperCollins will rush out a book submitted by former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto just days before her December 27 assassination, it said on Monday.

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• 7 January

  EU, NATO welcome Georgia vote despite concerns

  BRUSSELS – NATO and the European Union welcomed on Monday the conduct of Georgia’s election in which incumbent President Mikhail Saakashvili claimed victory, but demanded that allegations of irregularities be cleared up fast.

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• 7 January

  Ex-guerrilla Thaci seals Kosovo governing coalition

  PRISTINA, Serbia – Kosovo’s prime-minister designate Hashim Thaci sealed agreement on Monday on a governing coalition expected to lead the Albanian-majority province to independence from Serbia early this year.

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• 7 January

  Firefighters bring Iraq oil refinery fire under control

  BAIJI, Iraq – Firefighters have succeeded in bringing a blaze at Iraq’s largest oil refinery in Baiji under control, an engineer at the refinery said.

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• 7 January

  Fire destroys Iraq refinery’s LPG unit: engineer

  BAIJI, Iraq – Iraq’s largest oil refinery was continuing to operate on Monday despite a fire that destroyed its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unit, an engineer at the facility told Reuters.

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• 7 January

  Israeli, Palestinian teams struggle before Bush visit

  JERUSALEM – Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggled on Monday to get U.S.-sponsored peace talks, stalled by disputes over Jewish settlements, on course before a visit by President George W. Bush.

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• 7 January

  Militants attack Pakistani peace workers

  PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Al Qaeda-linked militants in northwest Pakistan have attacked two offices of a government-sponsored peace movement and killed eight people, the military said on Monday.

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• 7 January

  FACTBOX: Military and civilian deaths in Iraq

  A U.S. soldier died after a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Diyala Province on Saturday. Following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq and Iraqi civilians killed in attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003:

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• 7 January

  Amir Dokka Umarov answers the opponents of the Caucasus Emirate

  Part 1   24 Shawwal 1428 (4 November 2007) I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed shaytan. In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful!

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• 7 January

  Georgians vote in presidential poll

  Georgians have begun voting in snap presidential elections seen as a test of the democratic credentials of Mikhail Saakashvili, the country’s pro-western president.

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