December, 2006

• 5 December

  Iran, Malaysia to Form Joint Commission on Women

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Malaysia are set to form a joint commission for cooperation on women and family affairs, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s Women’s Fraction said.

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• 5 December

  4 dead as US helicopter crashes into Iraqi lake

  BAGHDAD (AFP) — Thirteen US troops died in Iraq over the weekend including four killed when a military helicopter made an “emergency landing” in the restive west of the country, the US military said Monday.

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• 5 December

  Controversial Bolton to end UN tenure

  UNITED NATIONS — US Ambassador John Bolton has pushed President George W. Bush’s global agenda with a lawyer’s drive during his 16 months at the United Nations — not a diplomat’s finesse which has upset some ambassadors and UN officials.

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• 5 December

  Israel kills activist, arrests 17 in West Bank

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army killed a Palestinian and arrested 17 fighters Monday in raids across the West Bank, despite a decision by the military to scale back such operations in order to bolster a shaky truce with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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• 5 December

  Lebanese army increases forces in tense capital

  BEIRUT (Reuters) — Lebanon’s army deployed more soldiers in Beirut on Monday after the killing of a pro-Syrian Shiite demonstrator raised fears anti-government protests could turn into sectarian violence.

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• 5 December

  Saddam trial witness phase wraps up

  BAGHDAD (AFP) — The genocide trial of Saddam Hussein heard its penultimate witness Monday in a sign it will soon concentrate on documents allegedly linking former Iraqi authorities to the 1988 massacres of Kurds.

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• 5 December

  Iraq quagmire erodes Bush’s confidence, power

  WASHINGTON — After a five-year Republican lock on power, the quagmire in Iraq handed US President George W. Bush a Democrat-controlled Congress in late 2006, which is likely to make his last two years in the White House tough ones.

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• 5 December

  Egyptian children trade childhood for money

  CAIRO — Mohammad Gad walks barefoot through the muddy tannery, seemingly not bothered by the acrid odours of chemicals and the stink of unprocessed skins.

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• 3 December

  Swiss Charge D’affaires Summoned to FM

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned Swiss charge d’affaires in Tehran to reflect the Islamic Republic’s strong protest at the savage behavior of the US police towards an Iranian student of California University.

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• 3 December

  Gambian, Iranian presidents stress expansion of ties

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Gambian counterpart, President Yahya Jammeh, here on Saturday called for further expansion of ties between the two states.

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