July, 2007

• 17 July

  Israel to release prisoners this week, Olmert tells Abbas

  Israel plans to release 250 Palestinian prisoners by the end of the week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the two leaders met in Jerusalem on Monday.

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• 17 July

  Kirkuk attack kills at least 80

  A triple bombing, including a massive suicide truck blast, killed more than 80 people Monday in Kirkuk, the deadliest attack yet in the oil-rich northern city. The bloodshed reinforced concern that extremists are heading north as US-led forces step up pressure around Baghdad.

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• 17 July

  Bush’s call for peace conference ‘step in right direction’ — King

  King Abdullah on Monday welcomed US President George W. Bush’s call for an international conference to revive Middle East peace talks, describing it as “a step in the right direction”, a Royal Court statement said.

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• 17 July

  A fight to the death on Pakistan’s border

  Since July 3, when Pakistani troops laid siege and eventually stormed the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, more than 100 people, mostly from the security forces, have been killed in attacks in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), primarily in the Swat region over the past few days.

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• 17 July

  The Price of Murder

  The murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian officer who died of radioactive poisoning on November 23, was, as the Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons yesterday, a horrifying and lingering death.

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• 17 July

  YIM targets joint Ethiopian-Somalian forces

  As news that a huge bomb explosion rocked Mogadishu’s Bakara market on Monday while a large number of Somalia military and police forces were in the area, the Youth Islamic Movement reported a strike against Joint Ethiopian-Somalian Forces that destroyed a vehicle.

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• 17 July

  28 invaders, collaborators killed in fierce fighting in Kandahar

  The Taliban have been engaged in fierce and large-scale fighting with occupation forces and their Afghan collaborators since yesterday morning in the Zhari District of Kandahar where Mujahideen have been concentrating attacks in recent days that have so far resulted in the deaths of 28 occupation and Afghan forces, while …

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• 17 July

  Bush Increases Support for Palestinian President Abbas

  President Bush is making a new push for Middle East peace. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports he is calling for an international conference this year to move the peace process forward, and is pledging to increase aid to the Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas.

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• 17 July

  Bush calls for Middle East peace conference

  President George W. Bush on Monday called for a Middle East peace conference later this year and pledged $190 million in new aid to the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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• 17 July

  Truck bomb kills at least 80 in Kirkuk

  A suicide truck bomber ripped through a busy commercial district in Kirkuk on Monday afternoon, leaving a large crater surrounded by dozens of mutilated bodies, police and military officials said.

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