Eurasia Press & News
Republicans in the US Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic measure which would have required President George W. Bush to pull most combat troops out of Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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July, 2007
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19 July
Abbas backs early elections
A year after his Fateh movement was trounced at the polls, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he will call new legislative elections, a move designed to freeze the Islamist Hamas from power.
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19 July
Russian plot to kill Berezovsky foiled
A RUSSIAN hitman planned to execute an outspoken “enemy of Moscow” at the Hilton Hotel on London’s Park Lane, The Sun can reveal.
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19 July
Al Qaeda gained strength, Bush doesn’t believe
Al-Qaeda has regenerated and is plotting attacks against the United States, according to a US intelligence report.
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19 July
Pakistani soldiers killed in ambush
At least 16 Pakistani soldiers are reported to have been killed in an ambush against a military convoy near the Afghan border.
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19 July
Successful sabotage action in Dagestan
Four puppet police officers were killed and at least eight seriously injured in an explosion in Dagestan, Russian occupation sources reported.
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19 July
UN welcomes ‘positive’ Iran moves
The head of the UN’s atomic energy agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has welcomed Iran’s decision to allow inspections of its heavy water reactor at Arak.
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19 July
Abbas asks PLO to call elections
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has called for early elections in the Palestinian territories, denouncing Hamas and declaring “even the devil cannot match their lies”.
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19 July
U.S.: Senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader held
The U.S. military on Wednesday announced the arrest of a senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, an insurgent who, the military said, is casting himself as a “conduit” between the top leaders of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in Iraq.
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19 July
Life on the unruly roads of Cairo
Ahmed Hussein may well have one of the scariest jobs in Egypt. Every morning, at about 7 a.m., he takes his position in the middle of some street, somewhere in this city of two million vehicles, and tries to direct traffic.
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