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| Saddam Hussein’s Deputy Prime Minister Faces Trial |
The trial of Tariq Aziz, one of the best-known faces of
executed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein regime, is scheduled to begin on
Tuesday, AFP reports. Aziz and other seven defendants are accused overseeing
the execution of 42 merchants from Baghdad
in 1992.
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 The man captured Thursday in the northern city of Mosul is not the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, a senior US military official said on Friday, after several Iraqi officials announced that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, was captured.The US military said there were “no operational reports” to confirm the announcement made...
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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched her planned two-day visit to Israel on Saturday. She plans to press Israel to ease travel restrictions on Palestinians and to improve their daily lives. This includes the promised removal of West Bank roadblocks.Rice said she wanted to discuss about these issues with both Israeli Prime...
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 Four Britons were hurt when their bus rolled off an embankment and exploded on a desert highway in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. The tourist bus was carrying dozens of Russians, Britons, Italians, Romanians, Egyptians, Canadians and Ukrainians. Many of them were badly burned in the explosion. Authorities say at least nine passengers were...
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 An Islamist commander who was one of al Qaeda’s top members in Somalia was killed in an overnight American air strike; Aden Hashi Ayro was killed Thursday morning, according to American and Somali officials. The spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia, Sheik Muqtar Robow, said the strike killed Aden Hashi Ayro, another commander and...
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 "I'm still hopeful we'll get an agreement by the end of
my presidency," President George W. Bush said at a news conference at the
White House, after the meeting in Washington
with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and State Secretary Condoleezza Rice. He
will encourage peace negotiations, seeking a Middle East
peace...
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 The trial of Tariq Aziz, one of the best-known faces of
executed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein regime, is scheduled to begin on
Tuesday, AFP reports. Aziz and other seven defendants are accused overseeing
the execution of 42 merchants from Baghdad
in 1992.
According to an Iraqi official close to the court, the trial
would...
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 The family of Jonathan Cote has been notified by US
Officials that the body of a sixth contractor kidnapped in Iraq has been identified, The
Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday.
Jonathan Cote, an Army veteran and former student of University of Florida,
was kidnapped in Iraq
along with other 4 men. Cote, of the...
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Pakistan’s
army on Monday test-fired a long-rage, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, AFP
reports. The military said this was the second test since the weekend, as
Pakistani scientists and engineers also test-fired a missile on Saturday,
following a similar test in February last year.
The Army Strategic Force Command (ASF)...
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 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Khalid Meshaal, an exiled leader of Hamas, and his deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk met again on Saturday morning. Carter, the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, went to Syria to talk with leaders of the militant group Hamas and the unusual visit was considered a study mission and a part of U.S.'s...
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 At least 49 people were killed and others were wounded when
a suicide bomber struck a funeral for a tribal leader in northern Iraq on Thursday.
The bomber blew himself up in the Sunni village
of Bu Mohammed, near the city of Baquba, north of the capital, Baghdad, officials said.
The strike appears to be the latest assault to...
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 “Reprise,” A Story of Friendship and Art
Directed by the young Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, “Reprise” tells the story of two young aspiring writers. Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen...
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Today is Wednesday, May 14
, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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