June, 2007

• 8 June

  Egypt arrests over 100 Muslim Brotherhood members

  CAIRO (AP) — Police arrested 105 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group in the past two days, including two candidates competing in upcoming parliamentary elections, the group and police officials said Wednesday.

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• 8 June

  Palestinians say fed up with gunmen

  RAMALLAH — For most Palestinians, black-hooded gunmen have long been respected symbols of resistance against Israeli occupation.

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• 8 June

  Sanctions on Sudan will hurt peace efforts — China

  BEIJING (Reuters) — China hit back at critics of its policy on Sudan on Thursday, saying forcing UN troops on Khartoum would complicate efforts to resolve the Darfur crisis and calling attempts to link its policies there with the Olympics “ridiculous”.

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• 8 June

  Turkey declares ‘security zones’ near Iraq border

  ANKARA (AP) — Turkey has declared several areas near the border with Iraq to be “temporary security zones” in a sign of increasing activity by the military in its campaign against Kurdish rebels.

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• 8 June

  Quartet inviting Olmert, Abbas to Cairo meeting

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — The “Quartet” of international Mideast mediators stepped into the void, signalling it would invite Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for talks in Cairo, after a summit was called off at the last minute.

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• 8 June

  Putin proposes Azerbaijan for US missile shield

  HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a US missile shield in eastern Europe, told US President George W. Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the system were installed in Azerbaijan.

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• 8 June

  Blast rocks area near Beirut

  A BOMB WENT off near a Christian town north of Beirut on Thursday, in the latest string of explosions that have shaken Lebanon since fighting erupted between army troops and Islamists in a northern refugee camp three weeks ago.

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• 8 June

  Putin proposes Russian radar to USA

  Russia’s Putin has suggested a rogue proposal to United States of America to share a Russian-controlled radar as part of an anti-missile shield that would try to protect all of Europe.

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• 8 June

  US general admits Iraq in doubts now

  The general picked by the US president to turn things around in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has admitted that he had misgivings about the so-called surge in Iraq and that results so far have been “mixed”.

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• 8 June

  Struggle to continue till logical end: Mirwaiz

  In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has reiterated Kashmiris’ pledge to take their struggle to its logical end. 

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