October, 2006

• 27 October

  Russians Unwilling To Recognize Their Holocaust of Ukrainians

  The chauvinistic Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday bristled at Ukrainian officials’ push for declaring a Russian-provoked  Great Famine that killed up to 15 million people as genocide. Up to 15 million Ukrainians died in the 1932-33 Great Famine, which was provoked by Russians as part of their campaign to

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• 27 October

  Israel accused of attacking German ship in Lebanon

  Germany and Israel are at odds over an incident involving attack on a German naval vessel patrolling the Lebanon coast as part of an international peacekeeping force, reported Reuters. While German Defence Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe says that six Israeli F-16 jets had flown very low over the

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• 27 October

  Over 12 US Invaders Wiped Out in Iraq on Wednesday

  Iraqi Mujahideen fighters attacked a US checkpoint located in the al-Mal’ab in ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad,  inflicting dead and wounded on the Americans. Two American ambulances were seen racing to the stricken checkpoint, the Al Basrah  reported.

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• 27 October

  Israel kills 7 in Gaza raid

  GAZA CITY (AFP) — Seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in a raid on the Gaza Strip Monday during festivities marking the end of Ramadan, in an operation President Mahmoud Abbas slammed as a “massacre”.

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• 27 October

  Hardliner set to join Olmert gov’t

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in a bid for political survival, struck an alliance Monday with a tough-talking politician who has called for stripping Arab Israelis of their citizenship, executing lawmakers for talking to Hamas and bombing Palestinian population centres.

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• 27 October

  Ahmadinejad says Iran’s nuclear capability increases despite Western pressure

  TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s nuclear capability has increased “tenfold” despite Western pressure to roll back the country’s nuclear programme, the country’s firebrand president said Monday.

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• 27 October

  Maliki announces new crackdown

  BAGHDAD (AP) — The prime minister on Monday announced a military crackdown to tame the country’s staggering armed violence, taking special aim at continuing lawlessness in the southern city of Amarah, where police have fled the streets as Mehdi Army fighters hunt them down in a brutal Shiite-on-Shiite settling of …

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• 27 October

  Annan backs Pronk despite expulsion order

  UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — UN chief Kofi Annan has full confidence in his embattled special envoy to Sudan, whose status remains unchanged despite an expulsion order against him from Khartoum over his comments on the Darfur crisis, his spokesman said Monday.

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• 27 October

  Thieves 1st to discover dentists’ tombs at Saqqara pyramids

  SAQQARA — The arrest of tomb robbers led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt’s most ancient pyramid, officials announced.

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• 27 October

  Somali Islamists dare Ethiopia to attack

  MOGADISHU (AP) — A senior leader of Somalia’s Islamists urged Ethiopians Monday to revolt against their government, calling it an oppressive regime led by an unpopular minority ethnic group.

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