July 18, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World
Egyptian officials have found torture gear including a whip, clubs and a barbed wire-studded stick at a police station in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a security source said on Tuesday.
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July 18, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Arab foreign ministers in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh at the end of July, Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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July 18, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World
The Egyptian government has decided to offer the second of the original four state-owned commercial banks for sale to a strategic investor. However, the deal may not proceed quite as smoothly as the privatisation of Bank of Alexandria, which was sold to San Paolo IMI of Italy last October for …
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July 17, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Polish President Lech Kaczynski voiced hope Monday (July 16th) that a US project to build a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, which is fiercely opposed by Russia, will be completed successfully.
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July 17, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
Due to free market economy and low taxation, Montenegro received 505m euros in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) last year. According experts, FDI is expected to increase to 850m euros this year — and continue to rise progressively.
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July 17, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
In a rapidly changing economic environment in Southeast Europe, many university graduates are unemployed. At a World Bank conference –“Young People in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: From Policy to Action”– held in Rome in May, many said that the unemployment trend could slow economic growth and lead to increased …
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July 17, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
A bloody eight-week-old battle between the Lebanese army and Islamists claimed the life of its 100th soldier on Monday, as a blast hit a UN post in the south of the country.
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July 17, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki sought to soften earlier comments that American troops can leave “any time they want”, saying Monday that Iraq’s security force was on the road to taking over from US troops — but it’s not there yet.
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July 17, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Iraq is on the verge of deeper disaster, and the violence that kills hundreds of people every week will only get worse in the months ahead, the country’s first post-Saddam prime minister said on Monday.
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July 17, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World
The American embassy in Khartoum denied Monday allegations by Sudanese officials that the US was involved in an alleged plot to destabilise the government.
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