December, 2007

• 4 December

  Palestinians expand security drive with new forces

  TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s government stepped up a Western-backed crackdown on gunmen on Tuesday by deploying hundreds of security officers in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Israel’s Olmert urges U.S. to keep pressing Iran

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on Tuesday for a U.S.-backed campaign to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions to continue despite a U.S. intelligence report that said Tehran had frozen its weapons program.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Bhutto betrays Pakistan by running in poll: Imran Khan

  LAHORE (Reuters) – Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is betraying Pakistan by not joining an election boycott that cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said on Saturday was key to ousting President Pervez Musharraf.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Pakistan envoys seek U.S. trust, trade and patience

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Envoys of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf dismissed criticism of his political crackdown and appealed on Monday to the United States to back their country as an ally against Islamic extremism.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Three Hamas militants killed in Gaza: medics

  GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed three Hamas militants and wounded another in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical workers and Hamas said.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Iraq ministry eyes power to arrest foreign guards

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Interior Ministry will have the power to arrest foreign guards involved in shooting incidents if parliament approves a bill ending foreign security firms’ immunity from prosecution, the minister said on Monday.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Iraq to put mainly-Sunni guards on its payroll

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The Iraqi government announced on Monday it would put 12,000 neighborhood guards on its payroll, a move welcomed by U.S. forces promoting a program of raising mainly Sunni Arab “concerned local citizen” militia.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Запад: Выборы в России нелегитимны, но дружить с Путиным мы будем

  На фото: Омоновцы скрутили участника акции протеста против несвободных выборов в России   Реакция на кремлевский спектакль «выборы» со стороны стран западного альянса показала слабость и неуверенность европейцев перед надувшимся московским энергетическим монстром.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Commander: Deployment of Foreign Troops an Insult to Regional States

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian army official said cooperation among regional countries would secure peace and stability in the region, and described deployment of alien troops in the Middle-East as an insult to regional states.

  Read More »
• 4 December

  Thailand’s PTT Set to Negotiate with Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- PTT will soon seek negotiations over contract details to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Iran’s Pars project after the operator reached a construction agreement.

  Read More »