Military activity in Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia significantly increased. According to official data, 24 kafir and munafiqs were eliminated and wounded in one day in Chechnya and Ingushetia.
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25 July
British ambassador challenges Russia over extradition
The British ambassador to Moscow today denounced Russia over its continuing failure to extradite a former KGB officer for the killing of the Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko. Sir Anthony Brenton said Anglo-Russia relations were not in crisis but there were sharp differences over the Litvinenko affair.
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25 July
Islamic Movement in Somalia report fiercest attacks
As the battle for Islamic Somalia continues, the Youth Islamic Movement have released a fresh report that details a multi-pronged operation that they carried out in Mogadishu, with some attacks in the Bakara market that mainstream media claims is “returning to normal” and also in the city of Afgooye.
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25 July
Deadline extended for 24 hours on Koreans
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has extended the deadline for the 23 Koreans it is holding for another 24 hours as talks are underway to meet their demands to release Taliban prisoners in exchange while their Mujahideen carried out various attacks including destroying two US supply vehicles.
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25 July
HIV medics freed from Libya after 8-year ordeal
Six foreign medics convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a partnership deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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25 July
Blair sees ‘possibility’ in Mideast
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, making his first public comments as the international community’s Mideast peace envoy, urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday to take advantage of a new “sense of possibility” in the region.
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25 July
Suicide Car Bomber Kills 26 People in Iraq
Iraqi police say a suicide car bomber has killed at least 26 people and wounded about 70 others in the southern town of Hillah.
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25 July
Egypt to streamline and strengthen S&T
Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, last week (16 July) authorised the creation of a higher council for science and technology and a science and technology development fund.
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25 July
Egyptian postal workers occupy
Egyptian postal workers occupied the Egyptian Postal Service building in the capital Cairo last week.
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25 July
Egypt workers demand raises and rights
Hidden away in a concrete loading bay around the side of a major Cairo postal office, about 100 workers in their 20s and 30s gather among a forest of placards.
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