Eurasia Press & News

The Iraqi high tribunal is set to give its verdict on Sunday on six former aides of Saddam Hussein accused of slaughtering 182,000 Kurdish villagers during a 1988 military campaign in northern Iraq.

Roadside bombs killed seven American troops in Iraq on Saturday, including four in a single strike outside Baghdad, the military said, as US and Iraqi troops captured two senior Al Qaeda gunmen in northern Iraq.

The failure of the latest Arab League mission to get Lebanon’s Western-backed government and the Iran- and Syria-supported opposition to talk together shows that outsiders control the country’s destiny, analysts said on Saturday.

Three Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday when a booby trap set by Fateh Islam gunmen exploded in the Nahr Bared Palestinian refugee camp, an army spokesman said.

HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL Haniyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian government dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas, called for power-sharing talks on Saturday with Fateh rivals routed from the Gaza Strip.

Egypt moved forcefully Thursday to isolate Hamas, calling a regional summit next week including the Israelis and Palestinians — and shunning contacts with the militant group after its takeover of Gaza.

CAIRO (Reuters) – The bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a “coup against legitimacy,” Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Saturday, two days before he hosts a regional summit seen as an attempt to isolate the Islamist group.

Construcţia PNL, PNŢCD şi AP este o construcţie depăşită, pentru că PNL nu a finalizat divorţul cu PD, a declarat Gheorghe Flutur, vicepreşedintele PLD.

Optimism din partea delegaţiei române prezente la summit-ul de la Bruxelles. Preşedintele Traian Băsescu şi premierul Călin Popescu Tăriceanu au prezentat concluziile acestei reuniuni de o importanţă crucială pentru viitorul Uniunii Europene.

Moţiunea este un gest democratic, a declarat ministrul Sănătăţii, Eugen Nicolăescu. Este de înţeles, dar ce nu înţeleg eu este de ce o moţiune se face cu atac la persoană şi nu cu atac la sistem, a mai spus ministrul.