February, 2007

• 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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• 5 February

  2 key members of Mahdi Army killed

  BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two key members of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s political and military organization were gunned down just days before the U.S. and Iraqi forces planned to open a massive security drive in Baghdad.

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• 5 February

  War Enters the Classrooms

  The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City’s children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence

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• 5 February

  Syria refuses to help refugees driven from Iraq

  More than 700 Palestinian refugees who have been driven out of Iraq are stranded in squalid tented camps on the Syrian border. Damascus is refusing to let them in, despite the wintry conditions and limited supplies of food, water, fuel and medicines.

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• 5 February

  افتتاح المعرض ( اسود ابيض ) لعائشة الرازم

  افتتح يوم السبت في الثالث من هذا الشهر شباط 2007Ù… وفي الساعة الخامسة مساءً المعرض التشكيلي للشاعرة والتشكيلية عائشة الرازم وقد حمل عنوان  ( اسود ابيض )تحت رعاية المهندس عامر البشير نائب أمين عمان; في جاليري سيزان للفنون / اللويبدة/ عمان / امتداد دوار باريس   جاء المعرض مفاجئاً جمهور الفن التشكيلي …

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• 4 February

  Iran says it will not freeze its nuclear work but promised to open up its disputed uranium enrichment facility to the media.

  Iran has vowed to defy a UN resolution calling for a freeze to its nuclear work but promised to open up its disputed uranium enrichment facility in Natanz to the media.

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• 4 February

  Progress in Baghdad will take time: U.S. general

  A U.S.-backed Iraqi security plan seen as a last-ditch attempt to halt violence in Baghdad will not produce results overnight, a U.S. general warned on Sunday, after a one-ton suicide truck bomb killed 135 people.

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• 4 February

  Africa Israel pulls out of Tnuva bid talks

  The dairy farmers’ bid for Tnuva Food Industries Ltd. has failed. Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. (TASE:AFIL; Pink Sheets:AFIVY) today notified the dairy farmers of the Israel

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