June, 2007

• 6 June

  Mansour Dadullah: Bin Laden alive and well

  Osama bin Laden is alive and well and issuing orders to his commanders, says the new military leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera, Mansour Dadullah, whose brother led military operations for the Taliban until his death in May, said he has received a letter of …

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• 5 June

  PNL ÅŸi PNÅ¢CD au semnat un acord pentru formarea unui pol de centru-dreapta

  Liderii PNL şi PNŢCD au semnat un acord de colaborare. Liberalii au continuat astăzi discuţiile cu ţărăniştii pentru formarea unui pol de centru-dreapta. Ieri, s-a încheiat un acord cu Alianţa Populară, condusă de Emil Constantinescu.

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• 5 June

  Schwarz-Schilling urges BiH to address prison system inadequacies

  While it may take year before a state prison is in place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the country must take urgent steps to deal with the shortcomings in its current detention system, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling said Friday (June 1st).

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• 5 June

  Zoran Milanovic succeeds Racan as SDP president

  The youngest candidate and the one with the briefest party membership, Zoran Milanovic, is the new president of Croatia’s main opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP). He triumphed in the second round of voting at the extraordinary party convention on Saturday (June 2nd), winning 828 votes. His rival in the runoff, …

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• 5 June

  Albanian government approves 10% flat tax

  In a move aimed at creating a friendlier investment climate and making the economy more competitive, the Albanian government approved a fiscal package last week that includes implementing a 10% flat tax — the lowest level in Southeast Europe. Corporate taxes will also be slashed to 10%.

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• 5 June

  2008 Democrats joust on Iraq

  MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AFP) — Top Democratic presidential hopefuls traded their sharpest barbs yet of the 2008 White House race, as differences over Iraq burst into the open during their second televised debate.

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• 5 June

  Iran ready to resist on nuclear, Khamenei warns

  TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned that Iran was prepared “to pay a price” and “resist” to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.

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• 5 June

  Unprecedented poverty for Palestinians after 40-year occupation — Amnesty

  LONDON (AFP) — Israel has plunged the Palestinians into unprecedented levels of poverty and despair through 40 years of occupation, yet failed to ensure its own security, Amnesty International said Monday.

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• 5 June

  Some view Darfur sanctions’ effect as weak

  KHARTOUM — Business leaders managing Sudan’s economic boom predict the new US sanctions imposed because of Darfur will have little impact on this country’s oil-based economy, mostly because they avoid targeting key Chinese interests here.

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• 5 June

  7 dead in Mogadishu attacks

  MOGADISHU (AFP) — Violent attacks and retaliation by security forces led to the deaths of two police officers and five civilians in Mogadishu Monday, a day after Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammad Gedi escaped a suicide car bomb attack.

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