August 3, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
French President Nicolas Sarkozy came under renewed pressure on Thursday over claims he concluded a major arms deal with Libya in exchange for the release of six foreign medics last week.
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August 3, 2007 Iran, Iran News, Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates urged US partners in the Middle East on Thursday to put pressure on Iran to end its nuclear programme, warning there’s “not really room for bystanders hereâ€.
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August 3, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News
A Russian expedition planted the country’s flag on the seabed under the North Pole on Thursday, capping a mission to claim the mineral riches of the Arctic and drawing ridicule from abroad.
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August 3, 2007 Palestina, Palestina News
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinian leaders Thursday that a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall is aimed at getting them closer to establishing an independent state and that Israel is ready now to discuss the main issues that need to be resolved.
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August 3, 2007 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Dozens of civilians are reported to have been killed in air raids by Western occupation forces in the Afghan southern province of Helmand.
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August 3, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Mujahideen eliminated a so-called deputy head of the “Buinaksk department of interior affairs” Lieut. Col. Abdulmashid Rasulov.
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August 3, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Barack Obama, the US presidential candidate, has said he would be prepared to attack al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan without Islamabad’s approval.
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August 3, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
On July 30 the Kavkaz Center website posted a new statement from Doku Umarov, leader of the Chechen rebels and the North Caucasus insurgency. Umarov declared, “We [the Mujahideen] are ready for any kind of big event. Many ask when a large-scale attack will be.
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August 3, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed an agreement giving the Palestinian Authority $80m (£39m) to reform their security services.
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August 3, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
It was described as a “powder keg” moment. In late May, just across the Tigris river from Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, a heavily armed convoy of American forces was driving down a street near the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
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