June 12, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
SOFIA (Reuters) — President George W. Bush said on Monday it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV.
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June 12, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House Sunday backed an eventual withdrawal of most US troops from Iraq after a report said detailed plans are afoot to retain a smaller military presence in the war-torn country for years.
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June 12, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World
CAIRO (AP) — Elections for Egypt’s upper chamber of parliament turned violent Monday as one man was killed in clashes between ruling party supporters and independents outside a polling station in the northern Nile Delta region, police and state television reported.
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June 12, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Renewed Palestinian factional fighting killed 11 people on Monday in Gaza, where gunmen fired on government offices forcing ministers to interrupt a Cabinet meeting.
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June 12, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AFP) — US troop losses in Iraq topped 3,500 after a bridge bombing near Baghdad on Monday, as Britain’s visiting future prime minister rejected domestic calls for a probe into the war’s failings.
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June 12, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
NAHR BARED (AFP) — Two Red Cross workers and three soldiers were killed on Monday around a besieged camp in northern Lebanon where the army has struggled to crush Islamist gunmen for the past three weeks.
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June 12, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Palestina, Palestina News
Monarch in Cairo today for talks with Mubarak AMMAN (JT) — King Abdullah on Monday reiterated that there is no question of forming a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation or federation at the current time, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
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June 12, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
One person has been killed in violence outside a polling station in Egypt’s northern Nile Delta region, as Egyptians go to the polls in parliamentary elections. A number of opposition groups boycotted Monday’s election, the first held under constitutional amendments approved by a referendum in March, but the Muslim Brotherhood …
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June 12, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
A court in Ethiopia has found 38 senior opposition figures guilty of charges connected to mass protests after disputed elections two years ago. Â The charges ranged from armed rebellion to “outrage against the constitution”.
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June 12, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Pakistan’s suspended chief justice has won the first round in a lengthy legal battle with the government. The Supreme Court decided on Monday to consider his challenge against accusations of misconduct.
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