Eurasia Press & News

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a local Al Qaeda leader in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Saturday, police said, as fighting between rival Sunni factions undermined the insurgency.

BEIRUT (AFP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora repeated a warning on Saturday to Islamist gunmen holed up in a northern refugee camp that they must surrender or be crushed, as intense fighting continued to rage.

The Lebanese army has continued to shell the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as Fatah al-Islam fighters hiding inside vow to fight to the last man.  

In Israel, there is “no effective barrier – not legal and certainly not ethical – that stands in the way of using torture,” concluded a recent report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI).

Ukraine’s presidential representative in the Constitutional Court has been elected chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the body’s press service head said Saturday.

Indian troops, in their ongoing acts of state-terrorism, martyred 51 Kashmiris, including two custodial deaths and one child in the outgoing month of May in occupied Kashmir. 

Lebanon’s prime minister has issued a new warning to Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, after a day of intense fighting with troops.

(CNN) — The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran’s security chief charged Saturday.

CAIRO, Egypt – A Muslim Brotherhood blogger was released Saturday after a 45-day detention, but the crackdown against the group continued, with 51 Brotherhood members arrested in recent days, police said.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has asked rival Palestinian factions for written proposals on how to stop internal fighting in the Gaza Strip, to be discussed in Cairo in July, a source close to Hamas said.