June, 2007

• 11 June

  Washington struggles with Baghdad sectarian turf wars

  BAGHDAD — The rubble-filled streets of the southwestern Baghdad neighbourhood of Bayaa were filled with young men waving Shiite flags and dancing to the pulsating beat of a popular song.

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• 11 June

  Kuwait MPs want to grill oil minister

  KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Kuwait opposition MPs filed a request on Sunday to grill Oil Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al Sabah over controversial press statements and allegations of financial and administrative violations.

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• 11 June

  EU officials in Libya for talks on medics

  TRIPOLI (Reuters) — Two senior European officials were on their way to Libya on Sunday to try to solve the case of six foreign medics sentenced to death for deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV, the children’s families said.

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• 11 June

  Tehran confirms arrest of 4th Iranian-American

  TEHRAN (AP)— Iran’s confirmation Sunday that it has detained a fourth Iranian-American — this one a peace activist from California — seems certain to further rile relations between the two countries, already tense over Iran’s nuclear programme.

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• 11 June

  Gunfights in Lebanon siege camp after 17 killed

  NAHR BARED (AFP) — Lebanese soldiers and diehard Islamist gunmen entrenched in a refugee camp fought gunbattles on Sunday after at least 17 people were killed in an operation to storm rebel positions.

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• 11 June

  Iraq bridge collapse traps US soldiers

  BAGHDAD (AP) — An apparent suicide car bomber took aim at a US convoy carrying demolition experts on Sunday, collapsing a major highway overpass south of Baghdad and trapping American soldiers in the rubble.

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• 11 June

  Palestinian factions clash in Gaza

  GAZA (Reuters) — Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 injured in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.

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• 11 June

  New combat actions take place in Chechnya

  Chechen side reports that an APC of Russian invaders was blown up in the Nozhai-Yurt district on 7 June. As a result two invaders were killed on the spot by the explosion and several others were wounded.

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• 11 June

  Zionist missiles hit Gaza targets

  A zionist occupant’s helicopter has fired missiles at Islamic Jihad offices in Gaza City, hours after the organisation claimed responsibility for a cross- border raid into the zionist occupying land of Palestine.

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• 10 June

  Moţiunea PD va fi votată mâine în plenul Parlamentului

  Moţiunea de cenzură a democraţilor va fi dezbătută şi votată mâine în plenul reunit al celor două camere. Partidele îşi vor dezvălui prin scrutin, după lungi negocieri şi consultări oficiale fără rezultat, strategia politică pentru perioada următoare.

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