July, 2006

• 5 July

  Iran rejects quick answer to nuclear incentives package

  TEHRAN (AP) — Iran rejected calls Tuesday for a quick answer to the package of Western incentives aimed at persuading it to suspend its controversial nuclear programme, insisting that it will come up with a formal response by mid-August. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran had to take time to …

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• 5 July

  Israel warns of ‘long war’

  Palestinian rocket hits vacant Israeli school as troops kill activist GAZA CITY — It has been hot and humid in Gaza in the past days. In itself, the weather is uncomfortable, but with electricity often out at night and no recourse to fans or air conditioning, people have hardly been …

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• 5 July

  UN envoy says Gaza humanitarian situation ‘dangerous’

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — The UN Middle East envoy warned Tuesday that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip had become “dangerous” since Israel launched a massive operation to win the release of an abducted soldier.

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• 5 July

  Abducted Iraqi deputy minister freed

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Gunmen pulled the deputy electricity minister from his car in a busy Baghdad street on Tuesday, briefly kidnapping him and 19 bodyguards in an attack that underlined the vulnerability of Iraq’s new government.

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• 5 July

  US abuse of Iraqis fuels insurgency

  BAGHDAD — No sooner had US authorities filed rape and murder charges against ex-soldier Steven D. Green than an account of the incident appeared on an Islamist website in the name of an insurgent group, the Mujahedeen Army. It promised “harsh punishment” for the alleged crime.

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• 5 July

  West can only wait

  BERLIN — The West has no choice but to wait as Tehran plays for time and considers an offer of incentives from six major powers aimed at resolving its nuclear standoff, Western diplomats and analysts said.

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• 5 July

  Europe’s wealth a powerful lure for poor Tunisians

  CITE ETTADAMUN, Tunisia — North African slum dweller Salema breaks down and sobs as she recalls the price her family paid for her sons’ dream of a better life.

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• 5 July

  Former settlers dismayed by Israel’s return to Gaza

  FROM THEIR TENTS outside a service station, evacuees from the former Jewish settlement of Elei Sinai in Gaza watch in dismay as Israeli troops reenter territory that was once home.

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• 4 July

  A European Justice for Chechnya’s Victims

  “Kill him, dammit, that’s your entire order. Get him over there, shoot him.”   Fatima Bazorkina was watching the evening news when she heard a Russian general give this order. The general was ordering the execution of a young man just detained by the Russian forces.

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• 3 July

  BĂSESCU: „UN PUCI ANTI-ROMÂNIA”

  La patru zile de la propunerea de retragere a trupelor româneÅŸti din Irak, preÅŸedintele Traian Băsescu reia tirul îndreptat asupra liberalilor. Joi seara, ÅŸeful statului cataloga iniÅ£iativa, la postul public, drept un atentat grosolan la interesul naÅ£ional. Luni, la Radio România Actualităţi, preÅŸedintele a continuat mai dur. A fost de …

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