June, 2007

• 8 June

  Mali Forum criticizes G8 summit

  Sikasso-African peasants at the forum held to counter the G8 summit criticised the subsidies enjoyed by the rich nations’ producers, which they said were squeezing them further into poverty.

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• 7 June

  PNL stabileşte strategia pentru consultările cu Băsescu

  După prezentarea moţiunii de cenzură în Parlament, liberalii se vor întruni în şedinţa extraordinară a Biroului Politic, pentru a stabili cu ce mandat vor merge mâine la consultările de la Cotroceni.

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• 7 June

  Conferinţă OSCE la Bucureşti, pe tema combaterii discriminării şi promovării respectului

  La Palatul Parlamentului a început astăzi o conferinţă a Organizaţiei pentru Securitate şi Cooperare în Europa, a cărei principală temă este combaterea discriminării.

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• 7 June

  NewsIn: PSD negociază la două capete

  Social-democraÅ£ii îşi negociază intrarea la guvernare ÅŸi cu PD, ÅŸi cu Partidul NaÅ£ional Liberal. InformaÅ£ia a fost publicată de agenÅ£ia NewsIn, care citează surse din PSD ÅŸi din Partidul Democrat. Astfel, variantele propuse de social-democraÅ£i sunt Mircea Geoană premier sau păstrarea lui Călin Popescu Tăriceanu ca ÅŸef al Cabinetului, dar …

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• 7 June

  Moţiunea de cenzură este citită în Parlament

  Moţiunea de cenzură iniţiată de Partidul Democrat este citită în Parlament, după ce, iniţial, parlamentarii votaseră ca citirea moţiunii să fie amânată.

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• 7 June

  Portraits of Shiite resistance

  Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was born in 1960 in a poor suburb of Beirut. In 1975, his family moved back to its ancestral home in the southern Lebanese village of Bassouriyeh. As a young man, Sheikh Nasrallah studied in religious schools and joined the Amal Movement, a Shiite resistance …

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• 7 June

  In south Lebanon, resistance from cradle to grave

  On the leeward side of Ait al-Shaab, a village in south Lebanon, the war between Hizbullah and Israel caused many sacrifices. Months later, both tears and triumph are plentiful.

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• 7 June

  A baker’s son driven by faith

  There was never any doubt that the young Iraqi Shiite with green eyes and close-cropped beard would pick up arms when called to fight by Moqtada al-Sadr.

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• 7 June

  Authorities seize Hizbullah weapons

  BEKAA: The Lebanese Army confiscated a truckload of weapons belonging to Hizbullah in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, security sources said Wednesday. The truck, which was seized late Tuesday at a random army checkpoint at Douriss, near Baalbek, contained rockets, machine guns, assault rifles and ammunition for the weapons.

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• 7 June

  Russia monitors Internet to dampen ethnic violence

  MOSCOW, June 6 (Reuters) – Russian authorities for the first time blocked nationalists from using a popular Internet blog to organise anti-migrant demonstrations, one of the leaders of a nationalist group told Reuters on Wednesday.

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