February, 2007

• 6 February

  India, Iran, Pak to sign gas deal

  NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Union oil minister, Murli Deora, said on Tuesday a final agreement between Iran, Pakistan and India on a pricing formula for gas to be delivered by a proposed $7 billion pipeline should by signed by June-end.

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• 6 February

  Palestinian leaders in peace talks

  LEADERS of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups headed for Saudi Arabia today for talks aimed at ending factional warfare and forming a unity government that could end a crippling Western embargo.

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• 6 February

  PM to appoint Friedman justice minister

   Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided Tuesday to appoint Professor Daniel Friedman, winner of the 1991 Israel Prize for achievements in the field of law, to replace MK Haim Ramon as Israel’s new justice minister, Israel Radio reported.

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• 6 February

  U.S. has no military plans against Iran – FM Lavrov

  The United States has no military plans against Iran and Washington agrees to cooperate with Moscow on bringing Iran back to negotiations, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.

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• 6 February

  Attack On Iraq Not Only For Oil

  KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 (Bernama) — The United States of America attacked Iraq not only for its oil, but also to control the flow of the valuable commodity widely used in the east, a renowned media practitioner said here Tuesday.

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• 6 February

  العراق يتسبب باستقالة وزير الخارجية الروماني

  يبدو ان العراق يتحكم بشكل او باخر في السياسة الرومانية ويؤثر بشكل غير مباشر على تاجيج الصراع السياسي الدائر وراء الكواليس بين قصر الرئاسة وقصر الحكومة. فبعد ان نجح الرئيس الروماني “ترايان باسيسكو” في ادارة ازمة الرهائن الرومانيين في العراق وخرج منها بنصر سياسي عبر تمكنه من تحريرهم بالمفاوضات اتى …

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• 5 February

  Baghdad security operation to start soon

  BAGHDAD, Iraq – Violence raked the capital Monday as the general who will lead Iraqi forces in the coming security crackdown in Baghdad took charge and a senior U.S. military official said the much-vaunted joint operation with American forces to curb sectarian bloodshed would start “very soon thereafter.”

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• 5 February

  Students return to Lebanese university

  BEIRUT, Lebanon – Police and soldiers ringed a university Monday as students returned for the first time since a political spat in the cafeteria mushroomed into street riots that killed four people and inflamed Sunni-Shiite tensions.

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• 5 February

  Mortar round, bombs kill 2 in Baghdad

  BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two people were killed in the capital early Monday when a mortar round slammed into a central Baghdad neighborhood and a bomb hidden in trash exploded on the city’s east side, police reported.

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• 5 February

  Israel razes houses built illegally

  JERUSALEM – The one-story house Amer Abu Diab built on a steep east Jerusalem hillside last year had a low fence, two bedrooms, a living room and an asphalt driveway

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