July 30, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Water Authority on Sunday resumed pumping drinking water from 20 artesian wells to citizens in the northern governorates after lab tests indicated they were free of pollutants, a Water Ministry official said on Sunday.
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July 30, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
The Bush administration will ask Congress to expand multibillion-dollar aid and weapons sales packages to “friendly†nations in the Middle East, partly to counteract Iran, senior officials said Friday.
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July 30, 2007 Iran, Iran News, Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Sunday left Lebanon without any breakthrough and after warning of the danger of violence if the eight-month political standoff is not resolved through talks.
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July 30, 2007 Iran, Iran News
The US government is escalating financial sanctions against Iran and ratcheting up pressure on Iranian companies suspected of supporting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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July 30, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Israel allowed around 100 Palestinians stranded for weeks in Egypt to return to the Gaza Strip through the Jewish state on Sunday, the first of some 600 expected to return home in the coming days.
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July 30, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
JORDAN ON SUNDAY said it backs the caretaker government of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to bring the security situation in the Palestinian lands under control.
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July 30, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
King Abdullah on Sunday held talks with visiting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that focused on bilateral ties and regional issues.
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July 30, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Ingush Mujahideen attacked a FSB building and the puppet “administration of the President” in the Ingushetia’s capital Magas last night, Russian sources reported.
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July 30, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
For every Chechen male, the building of a house is part of his task in life, on a par with having a large family and raising children, so that he need not be ashamed of them in front of others. For many it is at the very least a lifetime’s work.
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July 30, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Immediately after yesterday’s announcement of the rulings by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in two Chechnya-related cases, press conferences were held in the Russian and Chechen capitals by representatives of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, who gave their assessment of the event.
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