June, 2007

• 3 June

  Gunmen shoot dead Al Qaeda Fallujah leader

  BAGHDAD (AFP) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a local Al Qaeda leader in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Saturday, police said, as fighting between rival Sunni factions undermined the insurgency.

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• 3 June

  Lebanese PM tells Islamists to give up or be crushed

  BEIRUT (AFP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora repeated a warning on Saturday to Islamist gunmen holed up in a northern refugee camp that they must surrender or be crushed, as intense fighting continued to rage.

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• 3 June

  Casualties were mounting and that wounded people were lying in the streets

  The Lebanese army has continued to shell the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as Fatah al-Islam fighters hiding inside vow to fight to the last man.  

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• 3 June

  Israel’s sadistic torture of Palestinians

  In Israel, there is “no effective barrier – not legal and certainly not ethical – that stands in the way of using torture,” concluded a recent report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI).

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• 3 June

  Ukraine elects head of Election Commission

  Ukraine’s presidential representative in the Constitutional Court has been elected chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the body’s press service head said Saturday.

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• 3 June

  Indian Troops martyr 51 Kashmiris in May

  Indian troops, in their ongoing acts of state-terrorism, martyred 51 Kashmiris, including two custodial deaths and one child in the outgoing month of May in occupied Kashmir. 

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• 3 June

  Lebanon PM gives fighters warning

  Lebanon’s prime minister has issued a new warning to Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, after a day of intense fighting with troops.

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• 3 June

  Iranian official: U.S. detainees sent to interfere in Tehran

  (CNN) — The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran’s security chief charged Saturday.

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• 3 June

  Egypt Frees Muslim Brotherhood Blogger

  CAIRO, Egypt – A Muslim Brotherhood blogger was released Saturday after a 45-day detention, but the crackdown against the group continued, with 51 Brotherhood members arrested in recent days, police said.

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• 3 June

  Egypt asks Palestinian factions for proposals

  CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has asked rival Palestinian factions for written proposals on how to stop internal fighting in the Gaza Strip, to be discussed in Cairo in July, a source close to Hamas said.

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