Eurasia Press & News
French President Nicolas Sarkozy came under renewed pressure on Thursday over claims he concluded a major arms deal with Libya in exchange for the release of six foreign medics last week.
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August, 2007
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3 August
Gates ends tour, calls for pressure on Iran
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates urged US partners in the Middle East on Thursday to put pressure on Iran to end its nuclear programme, warning there’s “not really room for bystanders hereâ€.
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3 August
Russia plants flag to claim Arctic seabed riches
A Russian expedition planted the country’s flag on the seabed under the North Pole on Thursday, capping a mission to claim the mineral riches of the Arctic and drawing ridicule from abroad.
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3 August
Meeting to get Palestinians closer to statehood — Rice
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinian leaders Thursday that a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall is aimed at getting them closer to establishing an independent state and that Israel is ready now to discuss the main issues that need to be resolved.
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3 August
Civilians dead in Afghan bombings
Dozens of civilians are reported to have been killed in air raids by Western occupation forces in the Afghan southern province of Helmand.
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3 August
Situation worsens in Dagestan
Mujahideen eliminated a so-called deputy head of the “Buinaksk department of interior affairs” Lieut. Col. Abdulmashid Rasulov.
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3 August
Obama warns Pakistan over al-Qaeda
Barack Obama, the US presidential candidate, has said he would be prepared to attack al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan without Islamabad’s approval.
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3 August
Kremlin intensifies military build up in North Caucasus
On July 30 the Kavkaz Center website posted a new statement from Doku Umarov, leader of the Chechen rebels and the North Caucasus insurgency. Umarov declared, “We [the Mujahideen] are ready for any kind of big event. Many ask when a large-scale attack will be.
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3 August
US in $80m Palestinian aid deal
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed an agreement giving the Palestinian Authority $80m (£39m) to reform their security services.
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A very private war
It was described as a “powder keg” moment. In late May, just across the Tigris river from Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, a heavily armed convoy of American forces was driving down a street near the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
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