June, 2007

• 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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• 7 June

  Rival Palestinian factions clash in Gaza, one dead

  GAZA, June 7 (Reuters) – Palestinian gunmen from the dominant Islamist Hamas faction killed a member of rival Fatah on Thursday, witnesses and hospital officials said, in the worst flare-up of street fighting in almost three weeks.

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• 7 June

  Hundreds of students riot in central China

  BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) – Hundreds of students clashed with police and burnt cars in central China after street inspectors beat up a female student, a police officer and a witness said on Thursday, the latest in a series of public disturbances.

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• 7 June

  Babacan says Turkey must choose the EU or the Third World

  Babacan: Turkey must choose EU or Third World Turkey will be relegated to the status of “a Third World country” unless it applies EU standards of democracy and the rule of law, the country’s chief EU negotiator State Minister Ali Babacan said on Tuesday.

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