TimeLine Layout

May, 2006

  • 15 May

    UN Chief Begins Asian Tour

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has arrived in South Korea on the first leg of a five-nation Asian tour that will also take him to Japan, China, Thailand and Vietnam. Annan was hoping to ease regional tensions in Asia where divisions over its bitter past have …

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  • 15 May

    Iran to reject EU offer to end atomic work

    TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran said on Sunday it would reject any demand to stop what it calls peaceful nuclear work, a day before Europe’s foreign ministers discuss incentives and penalties designed to rein in Tehran’s atomic ambitions.

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  • 15 May

    Palestinians married to Israelis lose residency battle

    OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel’s high court on Sunday narrowly upheld a law that denies Israeli residency to many Palestinians who marry Israelis, rejecting appeals against a statute critics condemned as a violation of human rights.

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  • 15 May

    Darfur rebel resists pressure to join peace deal

    ABUJA (Reuters) — A rebel leader from Sudan’s Darfur region has rebuffed the latest proposals from African Union (AU) mediators for him to join a peace deal despite intense pressure by diplomats desperate to gain wider support for the accord.

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  • 15 May

    Nuclear scientist seen as Iraqs oil minister

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Nuclear scientist Hussain Al Shahristani, a Shiite Islamist dissident once jailed by Saddam Hussein, seems increasingly likely to be Iraq’s next oil minister, leading negotiators said on Sunday.

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  • 15 May

    Israeli troops kill 6 Palestinians

    Abbas in Moscow to meet with Putin, tries to build up diplomatic pressure against any unilateral moves by Tel Aviv   JENIN (AFP) — Two leaders of the movement Islamic Jihad were among six Palestinians killed by Israeli troops Sunday during an eruption of violence in the northern West Bank.

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  • 15 May

    41 die in Iraq attacks

    BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of deadly attacks ripped through the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 70, police said. Six small Shiite shrines also were damaged in a series of blasts around the Baqouba, a mixed Sunni Arab-Shiite region where sectarian tensions are …

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  • 11 May

    قوات الاحتلال تعتقل 23 فلسطينيًا في الضفة الغربية

    اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي فجر اليوم 23 مواطنًا فلسطينيا في مختلف المحافظات الفلسطينية. ونقلت مصادر إسرائيلية عن جيش الاحتلال انه اعتقل 23 مواطنا في عدة مدن بالضفة الغربية بدعوى أنهم مطلوبين حيث اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال ثمانية مواطنين في نابلس بدعوى انتمائهم لفتح والجهاد الإسلامي والجبهة الشعبية, وأشارت المصادر الإسرائيلية أن …

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  • 11 May

    انتصار فتح في كلية التكنولوجيا يؤكد التفاف جماهير الشعب الفلسطيني حولها

    أكد النائب ماجد أبو شماله عضو مكتب التعبئة والتنظيم في حركة فتح تقديره لأبطال الشبيبة الفتحاوية الذين حققوا اليوم فوزاً كاسحاً في انتخابات

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  • 11 May

    مسلسل الإرهاب يتواصل: إصابة شقيقين من كتائب الأقصى برصاص مجهولين

    أكدت مصادر طبية فلسطينية بمستشفى الشفاء بمدينة غزة فجر اليوم إصابة الشقيقين باسم ورأفت إبراهيم المدهون (21،34عاما) والذين ينتميان لكتائب شهداء الأقصى الذراع العسكري لحركة فتح برصاص مجهولين شمال قطاع غزة.

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