TimeLine Layout

July, 2007

  • 25 July

    Military activity increasing in Caucasus

    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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