Eurasia Press & News
SANAA (AP) — Nineteen alleged Al Qaeda members accused of plotting to assassinate Westerners and blow up a hotel used by Americans were acquitted by a judge who also exonerated some of fighting US troops in Iraq.
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July, 2006
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10 July
Egyptian journalists protest anti-press law
CAIRO (AFP) — Hundreds of journalists demonstrated Sunday outside the Egyptian parliament where a draft bill allowing jail sentences for journalists and preventing them from investigating fraud was being debated.
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10 July
21 killed as Islamists rid capital of warlords
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali Islamic fighters on Sunday declared “absolute” victory over the remaining warlords in the lawless capital Mogadishu after deadly clashes that claimed at least 21 lives, marking the end of the notorious warlords’ rule in the Indian Ocean city.
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10 July
20,000 Turks protest against Israel
ISTANBUL (AP) — About 20,000 pro-Islamic Turks chanted “Down with Israel†to protest Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a day after the Turkish foreign minister called the offensive in response to the abduction of an Israeli soldier “horrifyingâ€.
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10 July
Iraqi families search in vain for their missing
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Underneath the blazing sun at Baghdad’s Allawi bus station hundreds of families from across Iraq’s sectarian divide await the arrival of the latest batch of freed prisoners in the hope of finding a long-missing relative.
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10 July
Massacre as Shiite gunmen savage Sunni district in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — Masked Shiite gunmen rampaged through a tense neighbourhood of west Baghdad on Sunday, dragging Sunnis from their cars, picking them out on the street and killing at least 41 in a dramatic escalation of sectarian violence.
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10 July
137 dead in Russian plane crash
IRKUTSK (AFP) — Up to 137 people died Sunday when a Russian passenger plane veered off a runway, slammed into a concrete wall and burst into flames while landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, officials said.
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10 July
51 killed as Israel presses on with Gaza assault
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Israel pounded Gaza with fresh air strikes Sunday as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed the massive operation will go on — despite so far failing to win the release of a soldier seized two weeks ago.
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6 July
خالد مشعل غضب من الرئيس السوري وأخذ عائلته وطار الى الجزائر ÙˆØماس تنÙÙŠ
غزة-دنيا الوطن قال قيادي بارز ÙÙŠ Øركة Øماس انه لا توجد لدى Øماس اية معلومات عن مغادرة رئيس مكتبها السياسي دمشق لاي مكان .
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