April, 2006

• 18 April

  17 invaders and puppets eliminated in Chechnya

  According to spokesman of Military Council Majlisul Shura of CRI 17 kafirs and munafiqs were eliminated during the gun battles in various parts of the country on April 12-13. More than 20 invaders and collaborators have got wounded.

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• 18 April

  Tel Aviv bomber kills 9

  TEL AVIV (AP) — A Palestinian suicide bomber struck a packed fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv during the Jewish holiday of Passover on Monday, killing nine people and wounding dozens in the deadliest bombing in more than a year.

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• 18 April

  Attack damaging to Palestinians, Jordan says

  PARIS (AFP) — The United States warned the Hamas-led Palestinian government against defending or sponsoring “terrorist acts” as a suicide bombing in Israel on Monday drew widespread international condemnation.

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• 18 April

  Brother of Iraqi Sunni leader killed

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Gunmen killed the brother of a top Iraqi Sunni politician, officials said on Monday, in the second killing in days of a relative of a Sunni leader as deadlock over a unity government showed no sign of loosening.

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• 18 April

  Gulf Arab states will oppose US strike on Iran — Rafsanjani

  KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Iran’s influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Monday he was sure the Islamic republic’s Gulf neighbours would not support any US assault on his country over its nuclear programme. “We are certain that Gulf countries will not back the United States in waging an attack …

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• 18 April

  Sophisticated centrifuge?

  TEHRAN — Iran’s president has thrown a new wrinkle into the nuclear debate by claiming his country is testing a more sophisticated type of centrifuge for enriching uranium — a device that could be used to more speedily create fuel for either power plants or for atomic weapons.

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• 18 April

  Siniora heads to US seeking Bush backing

  BEIRUT (AP) — Prime Minister Fuad Siniora headed to Washington on Monday for a meeting with US President George W. Bush where he was expected to seek American political and economic support for Lebanon’s efforts to extend its authority over all Lebanese territory and revive the war-shattered economy.

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• 18 April

  House sale on Mount of Olives leaves trail of blood

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — As far as the Abu Hawa family is concerned, the sale of two floors of their home on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives was perfectly legitimate.

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• 18 April

  Dead Sea ‘dying’

  EIN GEDI, Israel — The Dead Sea is dying, with the world’s saltiest water body threatened by a lack of freshwater and an increasingly tense political situation, environmentalists have warned.

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• 18 April

  Northern Iraq city’s fragile ethnic mix perseveres

  KIRKUK — Armed men fill the corridors of power in Kirkuk’s government building as police, soldiers and bodyguards trade fierce looks outside the offices of council members. What the squabbling politicians and their retainers are not doing in this building, however, is shooting at each other, giving hope for the …

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