June, 2007

• 23 June

  EU says deal with Libya on Bulgarian nurses still not imminent

  BRUSSELS, Belgium — EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner denied on Thursday (June 21st) that a deal on freeing five Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya was imminent.

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• 23 June

  Study puts death toll from BiH conflict at 97,000

  SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) — An independent study has established that at least 97,000 people died in the Bosnian conflict from 1992 to 1995. The majority of victims, 64,036 of them, were Bosniaks.

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• 23 June

  Serbian special prosecutor to investigate political ties to Djindjic assassination

  BELGRADE, Serbia — Special prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic announced on Thursday (June 21st) that his office plans to investigate possible political involvement in the March 2003 assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

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• 23 June

  Around 80 Taliban killed in Afghanistan

  Foreign forces in Afghanistan said they had killed around 80 insurgents in the past 24 hours, most of them in a strike on rebels preparing an attack near the Pakistan border.

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• 23 June

  Roadside bombs in Iraq kill 7 troops

  Roadside bombs killed seven American troops in Iraq on Saturday, including four in a single strike outside Baghdad, the military said, as U.S. and Iraqi troops captured two senior al-Qaida militants in Diyala province.

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• 23 June

  Dutch Military Chief Says Taliban Executed Civilians

  Dutch military chief General Dick Berlijn says Taliban fighters were executing civilians who refused to fight alongside them during a battle earlier this month.

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• 23 June

  US may move detainees to Afghan prison

  The United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan that would take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay, but the White House said Friday that it was not meant as an alternative to the detainee facility in Cuba

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• 23 June

  Speech by Kamal Nawash in Europe on Fighting Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims

  My name is Kamal Nawash and as the president of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism, I am here representing the United States of America and more than six million American Muslims who are proud to call the United States home.

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• 23 June

  Australia says Iran attempted to capture sailors in 2004

  The Australian military Friday confirmed Iranian gunboats tried to capture Australian sailors near the sea border between Iran and Iraq, saying the incident occurred more than two years ago.

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• 23 June

  Reverberations in Egypt

  The emergence of “Hamastan” in Gaza sent leaders in the Middle East and elsewhere scrambling for an answer: Whose fault is it? Is it reversible? Will the same thing happen in the West Bank? What should and could be done now? In this soul-searching process there is plenty of blame …

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