May, 2007

• 29 May

  Hamas fires rockets, Israel considers escalation

  GAZA (Reuters) — Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.

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• 29 May

  Palestinian leaders try to end Lebanon standoff

  BEIRUT (Reuters) — Palestinian leaders tried on Monday to negotiate an end to a bloody standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamists who have been holed up in a refugee camp for more than a week.

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• 29 May

  Iran, USA talk after 27 years

  Bush regimes’ puppet Ryan Crocker and Iranian diplomat Hassan Kazemi talked in the first and formal meeting after 27 years on Monday with a four-hour meeting about Iraqi security.

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• 29 May

  China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches

  To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, “It’s the economy, stupid,” the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern …

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• 29 May

  China rejects US ‘threat’ report

  A Pentagon report on China’s military strength deliberately exaggerates figures and is intended to spread the theory of a “China threat”, Beijing’s foreign ministry has said.

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• 29 May

  Egypt donates food to war-torn Somalia and Sudan

  Mogadishu 26, April.07 ( Sh.M.Network) The United Nations World Food Programme welcomed today an Egyptian Government donation of over 250 tons of food commodities to war-torn Sudan and Somalia.

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• 29 May

  Egypt sends more peacekeepers to Darfur

  KHARTOUM, May 28 — Egypt dispatched 78 troops to join African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, three days after one of its officers was killed in in the war-torn Sudanese region, Egyptian officials said on Sunday.

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• 29 May

  World’s oldest bowling alley found in Egypt

  CAIRO, May 28 (RIA Novosti) – Italian archeologists have found in Egypt what may be the world’s oldest indoor bowling alley, Egyptian media said Monday.

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• 29 May

  Top Fatah Official Refuses to Meet With Hamas in Cairo

   CAIRO, Egypt —  A top Fatah official said Sunday that the moderate Palestinian group would not meet with the Hamas militant faction while in Cairo to discuss the security situation in the Palestinian territories with Egyptian officials.

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• 29 May

  Egypt Fumes At US Meeting With Muslim Brotherhood

  (RTTNews) – Egypt has strongly condemned a Sunday meeting of four US members of Congress and the head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s bloc in Parliament, accusing the US of adopting double standards while meeting with the banned Egyptian group but at the same time refusing to meet with the militant …

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