January 15, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
GAZAÂ – Israel killed at least 18 Palestinians, nearly all Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violence the Palestinian Authority said was a “slap in the face” to President George W. Bush’s peace efforts.
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January 15, 2008 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
TBILISIÂ – Georgia’s opposition vowed on Tuesday to press on with street protests and mount a legal challenge to a presidential election which it says incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili rigged in his favor.
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January 15, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUTÂ – A car bomb damaged a U.S. diplomatic vehicle in Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding 16, but the U.S. State Department said no Americans were hurt by the blast.
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January 15, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
LEBANON – At least three people were killed in an explosion which damaged a U.S. diplomatic car in Beirut on Tuesday and wounded a passenger, security sources said.
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January 15, 2008 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News
KABULÂ – A commando-style suicide raid on Afghanistan’s top hotel, frequented by foreigners and diplomats, shows a new style of Taliban attack aimed at soft civilian targets, diplomats and analysts said on Tuesday.
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January 15, 2008 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News
KABUL – A commando-style suicide raid on Afghanistan’s top hotel, frequented by foreigners and diplomats, shows a new style of Taliban attack aimed at soft civilian targets, diplomats and analysts said on Tuesday.
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January 15, 2008 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDADÂ – Iraq’s oil minister said a helicopter from the U.S.-led coalition caused a blaze on Tuesday that shut the major Shuaiba refinery near the southern oil hub of Basra, but an industry official blamed a mortar attack.
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January 15, 2008 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
LONDONÂ – Russia and Britain traded threats and recrimination on Tuesday as a diplomatic feud over the role of the British government’s cultural arm worsened.
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January 15, 2008 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
MOSCOW – Mothers of children seized by rebels at a southern Russia school in 2004 threatened on Tuesday to use a legal action brought by authorities against them to expose President Vladimir Putin’s role in the bungled rescue.
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January 15, 2008 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (FNA) Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said US President George Bush would fail in attaining the goal of his visit to the Mideast region as Washington’s plot for portraying a frightening picture of Iran is destined to failure.
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