Eurasia Press & News
El Salvador’s President Elias Antonio Saca was in Egypt Monday in the first visit by a Salvadoran leader since Cairo cut ties with San Salvador in 1984.
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May, 2007
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22 May
Egypt arrests 45 Muslim Brotherhood members in ongoing crackdown
CAIRO, Egypt: Police arrested 45 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood Monday as part of Egypt’s ongoing campaign against the country’s strongest opposition group, the group and police officials said.
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22 May
Egypt May Free Opposition Leader
CAIRO, May 22–Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour could be released Tuesday on medical grounds after a year in jail, Egyptian press said.
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21 May
Afghan parliament ousts female lawmaker
By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament voted Monday to oust an outspoken female lawmaker who has enraged former mujahedeen fighters now in President Hamid Karzai’s U.S.-backed government. The lawmaker, Malalai Joya, compared parliament to a stable full of animals in a recent TV interview. The video …
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21 May
International strength of Taliban, al-Qaeda threatens allied efforts
Canada and Britain must put pressure on Pakistan’s president to clear country of insurgents, experts warn Mike Blanchfield, The Ottawa Citizen Published:Â Monday, May 21, 2007 It was a fierce battle last September between the Pakistani army and al-Qaeda insurgents. When the dust settled and the bodies were counted, 20 terrorist …
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21 May
Estonia hit by massive cyber attack
Top Estonian officials accused Russian authorities on Thursday (May 17th) of involvement in cyberattacks that have hit the country, amid a dispute with Moscow over the removal of a World War II monument in Tallinn late last month.
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21 May
Outlaws plunder Iraq’s dwindling river fisheries
KUT — For thousands of years fishermen have drawn their livelihoods out of the brown waters of the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which teem with species found nowhere else in the world.
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21 May
Low vote turnout prompts questions in Algeria
ALGIERS — It didn’t significantly change the political landscape, but the meagre turnout for parliamentary elections in Algeria has prompted some questions about the future in this fledgling Arab democracy wrestling with the remnants of an Islamist insurgency.
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21 May
7 US soldiers die in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Roadside bombings killed seven US soldiers and an interpreter, the military said on Sunday, putting May on track to be one of the deadliest months for US forces in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.
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21 May
Israel to offer counterproposal to Arab Peace Initiative, Peres says: “Tel Aviv should build confidence with Palestinians — King”
JT with AFP dispatches ISRAELI DEPUTY PRIME Minister Shimon Peres on Sunday urged Arab countries to hold talks with the Jewish state on the peace initiative they reendorsed in March.
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