July, 2006

• 11 July

  Thousands march in Damascus in solidarity with Palestinians

  DAMASCUS (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in the Syrian capital Monday in a government-sanctioned protest to support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip under attack following last month’s capture of an Israeli soldier.

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• 11 July

  Foreign media scramble to win over Arab viewers

  BEIRUT — Rarely have Western news organisations wooed Arab hearts and minds so avidly — or with so little certainty of political or commercial reward.

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• 11 July

  Kuwait emir approves new Cabinet

  KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah approved Monday a new 16-member Cabinet that remains dominated by the ruling family despite the opposition’s victory in June elections.

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• 11 July

  Iraq Shiites see reasons for death squad killings

  BAGHDAD — While condemning in public the sectarian death squads that gunned down 40 people on Sunday in a Sunni part of Baghdad, some Iraqi Shiite leaders say in private retaliation for Sunni insurgent bomb attacks is understandable.

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• 11 July

  EU seeks Iran response on nuke offer today

  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union hopes for a substantive response from Iranian nuclear negotiators on Tuesday regarding a package of incentives offered to Tehran as a way of ending the standoff caused by its nuclear programme, an official said.

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• 11 July

  Olmert, Mishaal offer up clashing visions on how to resolve standoff

  OCCUPIED  JERUSALEM (AP) — The two most powerful players in the violent standoff over the capture of an Israeli soldier offered up sharply differing visions Monday on how to resolve it.

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• 10 July

  Basayev thanks Iraqis for elimination of Russian diplomats

  Vice-president of CRI, the Military Amir Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris (AKA Shamil Basayev) has officially thanked the Iraqi Mujahideen for elimination of a group of Russian diplomats the spies in Bagdad, the Kavkaz Center has learned. In the telegram for mass media, Basayev specifies:

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• 10 July

  Yemeni court acquits 19 of terrorism

  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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• 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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