June 1, 2005 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran announced Tuesday it had successfully tested a new solid fuel missile motor for its arsenal of medium-range ballistic missiles, a technological breakthrough that sparked fresh alarm in Israel. “It was a test of a motor and not a test of a missile,” a defence ministry official …
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June 1, 2005 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari vowed Tuesday to beef up security in the war-weary country, as US President George W. Bush said Washington and its Iraqi allies were making progress against the insurgency. Meanwhile, four US troops, four Italians and one Iraqi soldier were killed in air …
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June 1, 2005 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
PARIS (Reuters) — French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin became the first victim of a crisis over the European Union’s constitution on Tuesday as EU leaders braced for Dutch voters to follow France by rejecting the new charter. President Jacques Chirac accepted Raffarin’s resignation and appointed loyal ally Dominique de Villepin …
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June 1, 2005 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
GAZA (Reuters) — Hamas said on Tuesday it would boycott a rerun of some Palestinian town elections in Gaza, stoking tension with President Mahmoud Abbas Fateh movement that could complicate his agenda for peace-making with Israel. A potential solution surfaced later, when a Fateh leader said it had agreed to …
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May 31, 2005 Balkan News, Balkans
Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish officials have voiced regret over France’s rejection of the EU constitution on Sunday (29 May). While insisting they do not expect the result to affect their countries’ EU bids, they called for stronger efforts towards meeting all membership requirements. Tariceanu A “no” vote would mean EU …
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May 31, 2005 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
There is not a more important thing on earth than human rights, of which the right to life is the first one. The importance of this was persuasively demonstrated during the meeting of N.A.T.O. foreign ministers in Vilnius by near 1000 Lithuanian soldiers, policemen and civil-dressed guards with dogs, horseback, …
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May 31, 2005 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Lately Putin has begun to speak much about “elections” in the pro-Russian “Chechen parliament”. He also mentioned it in his annual application to the Federal assembly. But this is mere words and demagogy, as it is impossible to solve the problems of the country, which is at war with Russia …
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May 31, 2005 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
The bloody alliance formed of the union of gangsters and KGB agents be definition cannot govern Russia in conformity with the time and its needs. The whole antinational policy of Putin and his KGB team is based on the old and tenfold failed scheme of government. Unrestrained extent of the …
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May 31, 2005 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
As many Russian experts assumed, the reason of so-called “technogenic catastrophe†in Moscow and in the Moscow district, were actions of the Chechen Mujahideen. It is said in the message which Kavkaz Center received today. Kavkaz Center agency has received via e-mail a brief statement of Military Amir Abdallah Shamil …
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May 31, 2005 Balkan News, Balkans
Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish officials have voiced regret over France’s rejection of the EU constitution on Sunday (29 May). While insisting they do not expect the result to affect their countries’ EU bids, they called for stronger efforts towards meeting all membership requirements.
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