January, 2007

• 21 January

  Abbas in Damascus for crucial talks with Mishaal

  RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was due to meet exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mishaal in Damascus last night amid hopes that the months-long negotiations over a unity government might finally be nearing resolution.

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• 21 January

  Rice swapped rhetoric for rhetoric

  CAIRO — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a deal with Arab leaders this week: Washington will show an interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Arabs will say they support the new US strategy for Iraq.

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• 21 January

  Somali warlord hands over weapons, forces to army

  MOGADISHU (AP) — Somalia’s fledgling government received a boost Saturday when the last major warlord turned over his weapons and militia, but it faced a renewed threat from Islamists, who took credit for a string of attacks and promised to continue fighting until the government agrees to talks.

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• 21 January

  Lebanon opposition to stage national protest strike

  BEIRUT (AFP) — The Lebanese opposition called Saturday for a one-day general strike, stepping up a protest campaign to bring down the Western-backed government that has paralysed the nation’s leadership for weeks.

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• 21 January

  Egypt reports 11th bird flu death

  CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian woman died from bird flu overnight, bringing to 11 the number of people in the country to have succumbed to the disease, the heath ministry said Saturday.

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• 21 January

  US plans envision broad attack on Iran — analyst

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US contingency planning for military action against Iran’s nuclear programme goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former US intelligence analyst said on Friday.

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• 20 January

  19.01.2007 – Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

  REVIEW TOPICS: High alert for possible terrorist attacks lifted in Russia Litvinenko was murdered by a killer with three false passports Russian President’s aide says murders are a plot against Putin Trial of US counterintelligence officer charged with killing Russian begins in Khabarovsk 

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• 20 January

  Haddad Adel: We Stand against Threats

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that the Iranian nation and government will stand up to foreign threats with solidarity.

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• 20 January

  Quakes Hit Southwestern Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Two earthquakes measuring 4.4 and 4 on the Richter scale jolted Haft-gol and Bagh Malek in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan.

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• 20 January

  Enemy Plots to Be Defused by Iranians

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Imami Kashani said here today that the Iranian nation will respond and defuse the United States’ plots aimed at sowing discord between Muslim Shiites and Sunnites.

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