June, 2007

• 12 June

  2 Red Cross workers killed at Lebanon camp

  NAHR BARED (AFP) — Two Red Cross workers and three soldiers were killed on Monday around a besieged camp in northern Lebanon where the army has struggled to crush Islamist gunmen for the past three weeks.

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• 12 June

  Confederation out of question — King

  Monarch in Cairo today for talks with Mubarak AMMAN (JT) — King Abdullah on Monday reiterated that there is no question of forming a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation or federation at the current time, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

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• 12 June

  Violence in Egypt over polls

  One person has been killed in violence outside a polling station in Egypt’s northern Nile Delta region, as Egyptians go to the polls in parliamentary elections. A number of opposition groups boycotted Monday’s election, the first held under constitutional amendments approved by a referendum in March, but the Muslim Brotherhood …

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• 12 June

  Mass protest organizers found guilty in Ethiopia

  A court in Ethiopia has found 38 senior opposition figures guilty of charges connected to mass protests after disputed elections two years ago.  The charges ranged from armed rebellion to “outrage against the constitution”.

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• 12 June

  Chaudhary gains momentum in legal battle with government

  Pakistan’s suspended chief justice has won the first round in a lengthy legal battle with the government. The Supreme Court decided on Monday to consider his challenge against accusations of misconduct.

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• 12 June

  Innocent Palestinians kidnapped by Zionist occupants

  A pre-dawn incursion by zionist occupants into the largest West Bank city of Nablus ended Monday morning with the arrest of six citizens from the city itself and the nearby Asker refugee camp.

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• 12 June

  Egypt’s Elections Turn Violent; 1 Killed

  CAIRO, Egypt — Lines of police barred opposition voters from some polling stations Monday, and violence erupted between supporters of rival candidates, killing one person and marring the elections for Egypt’s upper house of parliament.

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• 11 June

  Arrests made in Afghan rocket attack

  KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan officials arrested seven suspects in connection with an apparent assassination attempt against President Hamid Karzai, a government spokesman said Monday.

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• 11 June

  General: Iran aids Karzai, maybe Taliban

  KABUL, Afghanistan – Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO’s top general here said Monday.

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• 11 June

  NATO soldiers kill three Afghans at checkpoint

  KABUL (AFP) – NATO soldiers in Afghanistan opened fire on a vehicle that failed to stop at a traffic control point on Monday, leaving three Afghans dead and wounding two others, an official statement said.

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