November 20, 2006 Balkan News, Balkans
A Skopje court Tuesday (November 14th) sentenced 26 people found guilty of automobile smuggling and human trafficking. Their combined sentences totaled 108 years in prison. The group included Macedonian, Bulgarian, Albanian and Kosovo citizens. The organisers of the international trafficking channel, Dejan Stamkov and Jane Beldedovski, received the most severe …
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November 20, 2006 Balkan News, Balkan Press, Balkans
The October 1st elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina provided an opportunity for several NGOs to promote greater activism among citizens. The most prominent of these was the Civic Organisation for Democracy (GROZD). Established by the Centre for Promotion of Civil Society, in co-operation with NGOs and citizens’
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November 20, 2006 Iran, Iran News
The permanent mission of Iran to the United Nations has strongly rejected as sheer lie the claim by Fox News that Iran has given asylum to members of the Al-Qaeda group.
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November 20, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
On Saturday afternoon, Iraqi Mujahideen fighters succeeded in capturing two other US Marines in an ambush in ar-Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad. The Mujahideen trapped the invaders in the city, where fierce fighting has been going on since Saturday morning. No further details were immediately available.
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November 20, 2006 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Late Saturday, 18 days after a purported poisoning attack on a Russian defector in London, all of a sudden, if having received a common command, Western mainstream media started reporting on the story about the poisoning of a Russian defector in London on November 1, 2006. The reason of a …
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November 20, 2006 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
The former head of one of Chechnya’s shadowy puppet “security forces” was gunned down in cold blood in Moscow by “law enforcement officers” who purportedly “were trying to detain him on suspicion of abductions and killings in Chechnya”, Russian officials said.
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November 20, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
RAI reports that soil samples from the bomb crater contained twenty times as much radioactivity as samples from the surrounding area.
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November 20, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
A high-explosive Iraqi Mujahideen bomb went off Friday evening by a US Humvee near head of the Barwanah Bridge in the Bani Dahir area of southern al-Hadithah, about 236km northwest of Baghdad. The bomb had been planted at the base of the bridge and exploded just as a US Humvee …
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November 20, 2006 Iran, Iran News, Iran Presidency, Iran Press
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Saturday evening stressed that progress of the world is in dire need of establishment of peace, dialogue and tranquility.
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November 20, 2006 Iran, Iran News
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said that Tehran and Harare enjoy consolidated political and economic relations at different levels.
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