July, 2007

• 3 July

  Mubarak says Nasser’s son-in-law not spy

  Egypt’s president has denied that the son-in-law of the country’s late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser was a spy, the state-run news agency reported Monday, breaking the state’s silence soon after the man’s death.

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• 3 July

  9 killed in Yemen suicide attack on Spanish tourists

  Seven Spanish tourists and two Yemeni drivers were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their convoy at an ancient temple in Yemen on Monday, officials said.

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• 3 July

  Palestinians seek to end camp siege

  Palestinian groups worked on Monday to end the six-week-old battle in a besieged refugee camp of north Lebanon, as aid workers continued to seek access to trapped civilians.

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• 3 July

  Abbas government promises to pay full salaries to civil servants

  The government of moderate Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad promised Monday to pay full salaries to tens of thousands of civil servants for at least six months, but also warned that employees cooperating with the Islamist Hamas will be cut from the payroll.

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• 3 July

  US accuses Iran leadership over Iraq violence

  The US military on Monday accused Iran for the first time of a direct role in an attack killing American troops in Iraq, saying it helped direct a sophisticated raid in January in which five soldiers died.

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• 3 July

  Palestinians to be allowed to enter Gaza Strip from Egypt

  Thousands of Palestinians left stranded on the Egyptian side of the border since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip will be allowed to cross through the Kerem Shalom crossing Tuesday and return to Gaza following an agreement between Israel and Egypt.

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• 3 July

  Global conference on Afghanistan opens in Rome

  ROME (AFP) – A two-day global meet on the state of law in war-battered Afghanistan opened in Rome Monday and due to be addressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and NATO head Jaap De Hoop Scheffer.

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• 3 July

  Widows suffer in Afghan village

  BUNYAT, Afghanistan – Fatama’s husband left home one night to smuggle drugs from their mud-thatch border village into Iran. The next morning, her brother-in-law gave her the news: Her husband had been killed.

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• 2 July

  Traian Băsescu l-a primit la Cotroceni pe preşedintele Germaniei

  Preşedintele Germaniei, Horst Köhler, a fost primit în această dimineaţă de omologul său român Traian Băsescu la Palatul Cotroceni.

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• 2 July

  Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, candidat PNL la euroalegeri

  Liberalii încep pregătirile pentru alegerile europarlamentare. Campania electorală a PNL va fi coordonată de secretarul general al partidului Dan Motreanu. În capul listei de candidaţi se va afla fostul ministru de Externe Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu.

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