December, 2007

• 1 December

  Iraqi refugees return to face uncertainty at home

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Mazen returned home in Baghdad last week to a bare living room. He had sold his furniture to pay for life in Syria, where he fled in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

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• 1 December

  Qaeda raid kills 12 people in Iraq village: police

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Suspected al Qaeda militants killed 12 civilians and abducted 35 in an attack on Shi’ite Muslim village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, police said.

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• 1 December

  Iraqi civilian killings drop sharply in November

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The number of civilians killed in violence throughout Iraq fell this month to the lowest level in nearly two years, according to government statistics obtained by Reuters on Friday.

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• 1 December

  Saudi clerics urged to do more to fight militancy

  RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi clerics are not doing enough to discourage militancy among Saudi youth, including those who want to fight in Iraq, Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in comments published on Saturday.

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• 1 December

  Russians say being forced to vote in election

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Students in Siberia, doctors on the Volga river, and office workers in Moscow say they are being threatened with disciplinary action if they do not vote in Sunday’s parliamentary election.

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• 1 December

  Turkey’s Gul approves army sackings of “Islamists”

  ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul has approved the sackings of seven military personnel suspected of Islamist leanings, the military General Staff said, in a move that may help ease secularist reservations about him.

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• 1 December

  Five injured by new blast at Ukraine mine

  DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – A new explosion injured five miners on Saturday at a colliery in eastern Ukraine struck by the country’s worst mining accident two weeks ago, officials said.

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• 1 December

  U.S. pulls U.N. Middle East draft disliked by Israel

  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States withdrew on Friday a draft U.N. resolution endorsing action agreed at this week’s Annapolis Middle East peace conference, a document Israeli officials said they felt was inappropriate.

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• 1 December

  Five Hamas militants killed in Gaza missile strike

  GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli missile strike killed five Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian hospital officials and Hamas said.

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• 1 December

  Rafsanjani Warns West against Fresh Threats to Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran’s Provisional Friday Prayers leader Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on western countries to avoid use force and threats against the Islamic Republic, warning that such an option would deteriorate conditions for the West.

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