June 29, 2007 Iran, Iran News
French Committee for Democratic Iran in a statement that was published in the French weekly L’Echo Regional warned the public and French authorities of the potential activities of Iranian intelligence services operating in French soil.
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June 29, 2007 Iran, Iran News
The French daily L’Humanité reported on Wednenday, The French League of Human Rights called for the “dismissal of case concerning the Iranian political refugees” that had been initiated at the time of June 17, 2003 “raid” in Paris against the members and sympathizers of the National Council of Resistance of …
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June 29, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
United Nations and African Union peacekeepers headed for Sudan’s Darfur region stand little chance of success without a robust peace agreement, observers warn, and could end up becoming scapegoats for ongoing violence.
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June 29, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
One of the biggest challenges Tony Blair will face as a Middle East envoy of the international community is Arab anger over the wars in Iraq and Lebanon, and the suspicion that he is a lackey of US President George W. Bush.
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June 29, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Scotland’s high court must hear a new appeal by Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Al Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, an independent review body said on Thursday.
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June 29, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Police were on patrol in Tehran on Thursday on alert for any more violent protests over the introduction of petrol rationing in Iran, the world’s fourth largest oil producer.
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June 29, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
A roadside bomb killed two soldiers in Somalia’s chaotic capital Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses said, hours after two aid workers were shot dead in an overnight attack in the north of the country.
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June 29, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
A possible rape charge against disgraced President Moshe Katsav has been dropped after he accepted a plea bargain for sexual offences on Thursday, in the worst scandal involving an Israeli leader.
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June 29, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
A car bomb killed 25 people on Thursday at a busy intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, while a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
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June 29, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Lebanese troops raided a cave hideout of Islamic gunmen in the hills of northern Lebanon on Thursday and killed six fighters, as the violence continued to spread from a Palestinian refugee camp where the military has been battling an Al Qaeda-inspired group.
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