May 21, 2007 Balkan News, Balkans
Top Estonian officials accused Russian authorities on Thursday (May 17th) of involvement in cyberattacks that have hit the country, amid a dispute with Moscow over the removal of a World War II monument in Tallinn late last month.
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May 21, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KUT — For thousands of years fishermen have drawn their livelihoods out of the brown waters of the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which teem with species found nowhere else in the world.
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May 21, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World
ALGIERS — It didn’t significantly change the political landscape, but the meagre turnout for parliamentary elections in Algeria has prompted some questions about the future in this fledgling Arab democracy wrestling with the remnants of an Islamist insurgency.
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May 21, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Roadside bombings killed seven US soldiers and an interpreter, the military said on Sunday, putting May on track to be one of the deadliest months for US forces in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.
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May 21, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
JT with AFP dispatches ISRAELI DEPUTY PRIME Minister Shimon Peres on Sunday urged Arab countries to hold talks with the Jewish state on the peace initiative they reendorsed in March.
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May 21, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
GAZA (Reuters) — Israel escalated its strikes against Gaza fighters on Sunday, killing eight Palestinians in an aerial assault that struck the home of a promiment Hamas politician, medics and a source in the Islamist group said.
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May 21, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
TRIPOLI (AFP) — Fierce gunbattles raged in Lebanon on Sunday between soldiers and shadowy Islamist fighters accused of links to Al Qaeda, leaving 40 dead in the bloodiest such clashes in seven years. Lebanese troops staged a broad daylight assault on a building in Tripoli where fighters from Fateh Al …
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May 21, 2007 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians and wounded at least 30 other people, including foreign troops, in a crowded market in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
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May 20, 2007 Romania, Romania News
Traian Băsescu a supravieÅ£uit fără emoÅ£ii încercării Parlamentului de a-l suspenda. Acesta este titlul afiÅŸat de numeroase publicaÅ£ii internaÅ£ionale, care relatează despre referendumul de ieri. Åžtirea despre rezultatele votului a fost prima din jurnalele informative ale EuroNews din această noapte. La rândul lor, ziarele europene amintesc, aproape toate de “nervozitatea” …
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May 20, 2007 Romania, Romania News
Preşedintele Comisiei Europene, Jose Manuel Barroso, l-a felicitat astăzi pe preşedintele român Traian Băsescu, a cărui destituire a fost respinsă ieri, prin referendum şi a cerut continuarea reformelor în această ţară care a aderat la UE în ianuarie 2007, transmite AFP.
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