June 11, 2007 Iran, Iran News
Belgium- (VRT Television) – A man is arrested in Tehran streets and is brutally tortured by masked men in public.
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June 11, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
NAIROBI — “We prefer hijacking ships to being on land because that way we can feed ourselves,†pirate Abdulahi Hasan Afdhub told AFP by satellite phone from a hijacked Taiwanese ship in Somali waters.
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June 11, 2007 Iran, Iran News
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran faces heightened criticism over its escalating nuclear activity at a UN watchdog meeting this week that will provide a barometer of sentiment for broader sanctions against Tehran.
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June 11, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD — The rubble-filled streets of the southwestern Baghdad neighbourhood of Bayaa were filled with young men waving Shiite flags and dancing to the pulsating beat of a popular song.
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June 11, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Kuwait opposition MPs filed a request on Sunday to grill Oil Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al Sabah over controversial press statements and allegations of financial and administrative violations.
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June 11, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TRIPOLI (Reuters) — Two senior European officials were on their way to Libya on Sunday to try to solve the case of six foreign medics sentenced to death for deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV, the children’s families said.
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June 11, 2007 Iran, Iran News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (AP)— Iran’s confirmation Sunday that it has detained a fourth Iranian-American — this one a peace activist from California — seems certain to further rile relations between the two countries, already tense over Iran’s nuclear programme.
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June 11, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
NAHR BARED (AFP) — Lebanese soldiers and diehard Islamist gunmen entrenched in a refugee camp fought gunbattles on Sunday after at least 17 people were killed in an operation to storm rebel positions.
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June 11, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AP) — An apparent suicide car bomber took aim at a US convoy carrying demolition experts on Sunday, collapsing a major highway overpass south of Baghdad and trapping American soldiers in the rubble.
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June 11, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
GAZA (Reuters) — Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 injured in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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