Eurasia Press & News
One of the difficulties in formulating an internationally agreed definition of terrorism is that the term is so slippery. All the actions carried out by terrorists are already crimes under existing laws.
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June, 2007
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24 June
Paris Conference – 4 years after June 17th, 2003 attack on Iranian Resistance
Paris based “Human Rights League†held a conference Thursday titled “4 Years after June 17th, 2003.†Speakers talked about the violation of human rights of Iranian Resistance members and refugees by the 17 June raid on the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and a number of …
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24 June
Iranian opposition claims EU for compensation
An Iranian opposition group PMOI claims millions for compensation from the European Union because the union has not accepted to remove organisation from the terrorist list as the court of European Community has decided.
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24 June
Canadian-based filmmaker barred from leaving Iran
France’s Foreign Ministry is expressing concern about the fate of a Montreal-based filmmaker who is barred from leaving Iran.
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24 June
US, British officials draft stronger sanctions on Iran
The United States and Britain are preparing drafts for a punishing new UN resolution against Iran that could impose sweeping travel bans on the country’s top military and security officials, require inspections on its cargo flights and ships, forbid all import and export of arms shipments, and freeze the assets …
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24 June
Egypt says Hamas Gaza takeover ‘coup’
The bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a “coup against legitimacy”, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Saturday, two days before he hosts a regional summit seen as an attempt to isolate the Islamist group.
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Iraqi officials say draft oil law to soon go to Cabinet for approval
Iraqi officials say a US-backed draft oil law will soon be returned to the Cabinet for approval after Kurds agreed to a compromise revenue-sharing measure. But they said many key sticking points remain unresolved — and not even addressed — in the watered-down legislation.
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24 June
‘Dispute holding up Libyan AIDS deal’
A dispute over compensation is holding up a deal in the case of six foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with the AIDS virus, the children’s families said Friday.
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24 June
‘Chemical Ali’ genocide verdict due today
The Iraqi high tribunal is set to give its verdict on Sunday on six former aides of Saddam Hussein accused of slaughtering 182,000 Kurdish villagers during a 1988 military campaign in northern Iraq.
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24 June
7 US troops dead in Iraq roadside bombs — military
Roadside bombs killed seven American troops in Iraq on Saturday, including four in a single strike outside Baghdad, the military said, as US and Iraqi troops captured two senior Al Qaeda gunmen in northern Iraq.
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