Eurasia Press & News
A thick blanket of smoke covered a Palestinian refugee camp Thursday as the army unleashed one of its heaviest bombardments against Al Qaeda-inspired gunmen holed up inside.
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July, 2007
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14 July
Washington steps up regional diplomacy with high-level visits
US President George W. Bush said Thursday he was sending his diplomatic and defence chiefs to the Middle East next month to shore up support for Iraq’s besieged government.
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14 July
Bush says no shift on Iraq, report mixed
US President George W. Bush acknowledged on Thursday his Iraq strategy had made only limited progress but put off considering a change of course in the unpopular war until a crucial September report.
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14 July
King warns Middle East conflict breeds more extremism, violence
King Abdullah on Thursday said the West should realise that in the absence of a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the world is headed towards decades of more violence and extremism.
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14 July
Lebanon camp under heavy shelling
The Lebanese army has continued shelling Fatah al-Islam positions in a refugee camp near Triopli as Katyusha rockets were fired at villages nearby.
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14 July
Mosque protests erupt in Pakistan
Thousands have protested across Pakistan against a government raid on Islamabad’s Red Mosque that left more than 100 dead. Â
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14 July
Russian authorities prepare for possible attack in North Ossetia
On the night of July 6, Caucasian rebels carried out a hit-and-run raid on the Russian military garrison in Ingushetia. First reports of the incident came from the Ingushetiya.ru website.
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14 July
Moscow’s guessing game over rebel strategy
Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Sydoruk has declared that “the operational situation in the North Caucasus will become increasingly hot.”
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14 July
Islamists fire rockets in Lebanon camp battle
Islamist militants fired Katyusha rockets at Lebanese villages on Friday, escalating their 8-week-old battle with the army at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
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14 July
Official: Guards rob Iraqi bank, net $500,000
London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, which owns a 70 percent stake in Dar Es Salaam bank, said on Wednesday that less than $1 million in cash was stolen in a raid on a Dar Es Salaam branch in Baghdad.
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