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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russia fulfilled a contract to sell air defense missiles to Iran, the head of the country’s state-run weapons exporter said on Tuesday.
Read More »Lebanese opposition halts protests after 3 killed
BEIRUT (AP) — Opposition protesters burned tyres and cars in the streets and clashed with government supporters, paralysing Beirut and areas across Lebanon on Tuesday in the worst violence yet in the pro-Iranian Hizbollah’s campaign to topple US-backed Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.
Read More »Musharraf says ‘new strong initiative’ needed in Mideast
AMMAN — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said he held talks with King Abdullah on the “urgency for a new strong initiative to effectively†address Mideast crises.
Read More »Fateh, Hamas in unity talks, Katsav faces rape charges
RAMALLAH — Fateh and Hamas met again in Gaza last night to discuss forming a unity government while a number of incidents across the occupied Palestinian territory provided ample evidence of the state of lawlessness Palestinians are struggling with.
Read More »Bush to seek Congress support for Iraq plan
US President George W. Bush prepared to urge opponents in Congress on Tuesday to back sending thousands more troops to Iraq, as the UN envoy in the country said it was “sliding into the abyss of sectarianism”. A day after bombers killed 88 people in Baghdad’s bloodiest attack this year, …
Read More »Ethiopian troops begin Somalia pullout
MOGADISHU (AP) — Ethiopian troops who helped Somalia’s government drive out Islamist fighters began withdrawing from this Horn of Africa nation on Tuesday in military trucks and tanks.
Read More »Zawahiri mocks Bush over Iraq
DUBAI (AFP) — Osama Ben Laden’s right-hand man Ayman Zawahiri on Tuesday mocked US President George W. Bush’s plan to send extra troops to Iraq, saying he should send his entire army to be annihilated.
Read More »Old Christian rivalry moves into Lebanon streets
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s power struggle has resurrected an old rivalry between Christian leaders whose followers clashed on Tuesday during some of the worst unrest since a 1975-1990 civil war.
Read More »US warns Iran to back off in Arabian Gulf
DUBAI (AP) — A second US aircraft carrier strike group now steaming towards the Middle East is Washington’s way of warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region, a top US diplomat said here Tuesday.
Read More »22.01.2007 – Eurasian Security Services Daily Review
REVIEW TOPICS: Another priest resigns in Poland due to his former contacts with Communist secret police More popular faces joining ignoble crowd as Poland’s campaign to uncover Communist agents continues Toronto Sun: it’s time for the EU to define Communist secret police as criminals
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