June, 2005

• 26 June

  Every picture tells story in Iraq

  NEW YORK — Numbers and words, words and numbers, repeated so many times they begin to lose meaning. A suicide car bomber rams a military checkpoint. Police find 28 bullet-riddled bodies in shallow graves. A man walks into a restaurant and blows himself up.

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• 26 June

  Iraq still violent and more divided

  BAGHDAD — The new Iraq is still a place where violence reigns and ethnic and sectarian divisions are growing deeper one year after the handover of sovereignty by the US-led occupation. On the bright side, 8.5 million Iraqis voted in the watershed January election and the political process appears to …

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• 26 June

  Iraq committed to democracy for all — Jaafari

  WASHINGTON (AFP) — Visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari late Friday sought to ease sectarian concerns about the shape of Iraq’s future government and denounced those who continued to foment violence against it. “There is a strong determination of the Iraqi people to succeed on this path,” Jaafari said …

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• 26 June

  US struggles to repair image around world

  Attitude least positive in Jordan WASHINGTON (AFP) — Anti-US sentiment is firmly entrenched around the world, mainly because of President George W. Bush and his policies, to such a degree that even US humanitarian efforts do little to curb it, according to a poll released Thursday.

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• 26 June

  New battles as Bush defends Iraq plan

  BAGHDAD (AFP) — Persistent Iraq violence that killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens more Saturday overshadowed a diplomatic offensive that saw high-profile trips by the war-torn country’s president and prime minister.

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• 26 June

  40 Gaza Strip settler families to move out

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — The first group of Jewish settlers announced Saturday they plan to move out of their Gaza Strip homes next month, several weeks before the army is officially set to withdraw from the coastal area.

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• 26 June

  World worries focus on Iran nuke programme

  LONDON (AP) — The world reacted warily Saturday to a hardliner’s victory in Iran’s presidential election, with many nations expressing worries about Iran’s nuclear programme. Many urged Iran to respond to international concerns about the programme, while Russia said it was willing to keep working with Iran on nuclear power …

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• 26 June

  Ahmadinejad vows strong Iran

  TEHRAN (Reuters) — Ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to a stunning landslide victory in presidential election on Saturday and immediately vowed to turn Iran into a strong and exemplary Islamic state.

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• 22 June

  Russia: Police Brutality Shows Traces Of Chechnya

  Stavropol Krai’s human rights ombudsman Aleksei Selyukov last week sent a complaint to the krai prosecutor about alleged massive violations of human rights in the town of Ivanovskoe in the Kochygbeevskoe Raion on the night of 11 June, when Interior Ministry troops reportedly rounded up more than 30 local youths …

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• 22 June

  Aljazeera Guantanamo inmate abused

  An Aljazeera cameraman who has been incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay since 2001 has suffered extreme physical, sexual and religious abuse, his lawyer has said. Clive Stafford-Smith, who visited clients in the US detention camp in Cuba a few weeks ago, told Aljazeera.net that Sami al-Hajj had been beaten by his …

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