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Israel on Friday gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip 48 hours to reduce ongoing rocket and mortar attacks from the salient or risk an Israeli military operation into the strip.
For the first time in 10 days, Israel opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential...
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At least 12 people were killed Monday when Taliban militants and local tribesmen exchanged heavy gunfire in Pakistan's restive tribal district of Bajaur, security officials said.
The fighting started when an army of volunteers from the Salarzai tribe tried to set ablaze the houses of the insurgents, who have been fighting...
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A prominent dovish Israeli professor who was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home warned Friday that the attack against him underscored the collapse of the rule of law in the occupied territories.
Police believe the bomb was placed at his doorstep by right-wing Jewish extremists angered by Professor Zeev Sternhell's...
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The military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement Saturday called on all armed Palestinian groups to capture Israeli soldiers.
"Capturing Israeli soldiers is an open option for all military wings of the Palestinian factions," the al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement said in a statement.
The statement referred to a...
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Israel has arrested an Arab-Israeli medical
student on suspicion he was recruited to spy for the Lebanese Hezbollah
guerrilla group, authorities announced Wednesday. A
government statement said Khaled Kashkoush, 29, was taken into custody
at Ben Gurion Airport on July 16, as he returned to Israel from
studying in Germany.
He...
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Polish soldiers posted photos of dead Iraqis and Afghans on the internet, and the military now plans to ban private picture-taking on missions abroad, media reports said Wednesday. The photos showed dead soldiers and civilians, torn limbs and bloodied body parts, the Polska daily reported. Polish prosecutors are investigating...
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Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and another
soldier injured by a bomb blast in the northern Iraqi province of
Kirkuk, an Iraqi army source said Friday. The incident
appeared to be the result of a roadside bomb that targeted an army
patrol between the districts of al-Rashad and al-Humayra. The explosion
totally destroyed the...
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 Violent fighting erupted on Thursday in southern Afghanistan when scores of Taliban rebels
assailed an Afghan Army convoy on the main highway, south of the capital Kabul, the New York Times
reported. Afghan authorities declared that the Taliban insurgents were also
beaten by soldiers and police officers, and that 35 attackers were...
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Iran welcomed Thursday the release of Lebanese
prisoners freed by Israel Wednesday as part of a prisoner swap deal
with the Hezbollah guerrilla group, the Khaber news network has
reported. 'The happy news of the release of Lebanese
prisoners by the Zionist regime (Israel) was part of the achievements
of the Islamic resistance of...
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Israel Thursday began laying to rest the two
soldiers whose bodies were returned a day earlier as part of a prisoner
exchange deal with the Lebanese militant Shiite Hezbollah group.
Eldad Regev and Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser were abducted in a cross-border
Hezbollah raid on July 12 2006. The attack sparked a month-long war
between...
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The Israeli cabinet Tuesday gave final approval for a prisoners exchange deal with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
Under the deal, Israel is to hand over five Lebanese prisoners and the
bodies of some 199 fighters, in return for two Israeli soldiers
captured in a July 2006 cross-border raid by Hezbollah.
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The head of the Palestinian Fatah movement in
southern Lebanon said Sunday that the expected swap between Lebanon's
Hezbollah guerrilla movement and Israel will include the bodies of
Palestinian guerrillas who fell in Lebanon or carried out attacks
inside Israeli territories during the 1970s. 'Among the
bodies that Lebanon will...
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A cautious calm prevailed over the northern
city of Tripoli early Thursday as weary citizens waited for the army
and security forces to carry out a redeployment plan and halt clashes
that have killed five people and wounded more than 80. The
Mufti of Tripoli, Sheikh Malek Shaar, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa
that an 'agreement...
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Clashes raged in the northern Lebanese city of
Tripoli Wednesday between followers of the ruling minority and the
majority led by Hezbollah, leaving at least two people dead and more
than 39 wounded, according to police and hospital records. Police reports said four Lebanese soldiers and a police officer were also wounded by sniper...
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Israel’s Cabinet approved on Sunday an exchange with Hezbollah. The accord will last two weeks to fulfill and will consist of Hezbollah’s return of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for five Lebanese and an indeterminate number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli don’t have any proof that the soldiers...
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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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policemen were killed after an attack set by some Taliban insurgents. According
to Deputy provincial police chief Amanullah Khan, the attack occurred Saturday at
a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
Apparently, the insurgents opened fire in the policemen in the Arghandab
district of Kandahar province. Some reports...
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 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered Friday a freeze
on raids against Shiite militants, after the leader of the militia claimed that
the arrests continued even after he demanded fighters to put their weapons
down. Shiite leader’s Muqtada al-Sadr Mahdi Army militia fought government soldiers
in the southern city of Basra and...
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 Shiite militiamen and Iraqi security forces fought for a
second day in the southern city of Basra
on Wednesday, waving rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and injuring three
Americans and an Iraqi, officials claimed. The explosions could be heard every
10 or 15 minutes.
The authorities ordered sieges across southern Iraq in...
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 Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militiamen Tuesday in the
southern city of Basra,
leaving at least 18 people dead and 40 hurt. Most of them are reported as civilians.
The violence began as Iraqi troops and police officers
carried out an operation against al-Sadr's militia, according to President
Jalal Taliban’s...
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 Four U.S.
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad
on Sunday, bringing the overall American toll in the Iraq war to 4,000. The roadside
bomb exploded next to the four troops’ vehicle in southern Baghdad,
causing their death and injuring another soldier, the U.S. military
reports.
The U.S.-protected Green Zone...
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 Two Palestinian militants were killed and four wounded in an
explosion at a beachfront facility of the militant Hamas organization in
southern Gaza City, witnesses and Palestinian doctors
said on Thursday.
Security officials claim the explosion was probably caused
by a “work accident” which led to premature detonation of...
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 A Christian archbishop, who had been previously kidnapped, was found dead, local authorities said.The corpse of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj Rahho was found on Thursday on the outskirts of Mosul. The Archbishop was abducted on February 29, when his car was ambushed by several gunmen. In the ambush, Rahho’s driver and his two...
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 A new scientific review of medical studies on the chronic Gulf
War syndrome finds a strong association between the illness suffered by many
veterans and the exposure to a group of chemicals known as acetyl cholinesterase
inhibitors. According to a recent study, it appears that the chemicals were discovered
in pesticides used around...
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 Three U.S.
troops and their interpreter were killed on Monday in Iraq's Diyala
province by a roadside bomb. A fourth serviceman was also wounded by the
improvised bomb that exploded near their patrol. On the same day, another five U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in
the capital Baghdad.
The religiously...
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 Five American foot soldiers went on Monday on their last patrol. They were killed in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad in another suicide bomb attack, the military officials said.The soldiers were patrolling when a militant approached them and detonated the explosive-laden vest he was wearing. Four soldiers died at the...
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 Despite intense peace efforts, the violence in Israel and Gaza persists. Two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday by an Israeli air strike, Reuters wrote on its Web site. One of the victims was a rocket squad member according to militant and medical sources. The strikes determined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend...
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 After urging Ankara to end it military operation in northern Iraq as soon as possible, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates got an answer from his Turkish counterpart, although it may not be the one he had hoped for.Gates’ counterpart, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said that Turkey’s assault on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)...
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 During an Israeli army raid carried out early Thursday morning on the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city, two Palestinian gunmen were killed in a fire exchange in Nablus according to the local hospital officials.Several other Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air strikes.The sound of gun fire broke the silence of...
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 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to ask Turkey’s military leaders to halt their operation in northern Iraq as soon as possible.Gates stated his intention ahead of the visit he will make in Ankara. He added that the Turkish military operation against the Kurdish PKK must not last longer than a week or two.The death toll of the...
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 Three Shiite pilgrims were killed
and 15 were injured in a roadside bomb attack Monday morning, in Iraq,
during a Shiite festival, police said.
The roadside bomb exploded on the
outskirts of Baghdad while pilgrims were heading
on foot to the annual Arbaeen festival, in the southern city of Karbala, Reuters...
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The Kurdish rebels living in the mountainous areas of
northern Iraq
expressed their opposition towards the Turkish raid Sunday, vowing to defend
themselves against the Turkish shelling and aerial bombardments, Reuters
reports.
The Kurds said that the Turkish troops target their
villages. Last Thursday Turkey
initiated a ground...
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 A long-expected report on Israel’s second war with the Lebanese
Hezbollah militia was released Wednesday, both the military and government
being heavily criticized for several flawed decisions.
Although Ehud Olmert’s government is blamed for entering the
conflict before deciding “which option to select and without an exit...
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 Five US soldiers were killed Monday by a roadside bomb in the northern city of
Mosul, US military officials informed.
A vehicle of the US forces was hit by a powerful explosion in the
capital of Nineveh province and then came under small arms fire, before additional
security forces arrived in the area.
Monday’s attack came...
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 Egyptian forces moved in Friday to close the border with Gaza after thousands of Palestinians entered the country through the Rafah border crossing.Soldiers began installing barbed wire and fences to prevent more Palestinians from entering Egypt. The move comes after militants destroyed a part of the border wall on Wednesday and tens of...
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 Israeli security officials said Monday evening that the military would
allow industrial diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip for one day only
on Tuesday, allowing the enclave's sole power plant to resume
operations following a four-day Israeli lockdown.
"On a one-time basis, Israel will allow in industrial diesel,"...
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 The provincial head of Afghanistan's National Reconciliation
Commission, one ISAF soldier and eight Taliban militants were killed in
three separate incidents in the country's volatile southern region,
officials said Monday.
The provincial head of Afghanistan's National Reconciliation
Commission was assassinated Sunday afternoon in...
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 At least 22 people were killed and 39 wounded, in several attacks in
Iraq, while dozens of al-Qaeda suspects were detained, Iraqi and US
officials said Thursday.
In one incident, nine Iraqis were killed and 18 wounded, when a
suicide attacker blew himself up at a Shiite mosque in Baquba, 60
kilometres north of Baghdad, security...
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 In a widely expected move Wednesday, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister
Avigdor Lieberman said he was pulling his party out of the government to
protest the start of peace talks with the Palestinians, but Premier
Ehud Olmert said negotiations would continue.
The exit of the 11-seat Yisrael Beitein (Israel Our Home) faction
leaves...
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 US President George W Bush arrived Saturday in Bahrain, the third stop
during an eight-day tour of the Mideast region to promote the peace
process and review security issues in the Gulf.
The US president arrived from Kuwait and was received at Sakhir
Palace by Bahraini King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. On Sunday,
before...
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 US air strikes hit Thursday targets of the al- Qaeda terrorist network
in Baghdad, while five people were killed and 11 injured in the latest
attacks around the country.
In the Arab al-Jabor area of southern Baghdad, US air forces
dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives during the first 10 minutes of the
massive raid targeting more...
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 Israel will intensify its actions against rocket attacks launched from
the Gaza Strip, Premier Ehud Olmert said Sunday, as an Israeli raid
into the central salient killed at least three people after militants
fired 42 mortars and 16 rockets at the Jewish state over the weekend.
The Israeli raid on the vicinity of the el-Bureij...
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 Tensions surrounding the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip heightened Wednesday,
as Israel killed six Palestinian gunmen in a military raid, and also
expressed fury at Egypt for opening its border with Gaza to allow the
return of hundreds of stranded pilgrims.
The Gaza-Egypt border crossing of Rafah has been shut down since
the radical...
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 A woman suicide bomber blew herself and eight other people up in in
Baquba, north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, security sources and media
reports said.
Two policemen and members of the government-backed Awakening
Council in Baquba were among those killed in the attack near a patrol
belonging to the council's forces in New...
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 Palestinian gunmen shot dead two Israeli settlers near the southern
West Bank city of Hebron Friday, before one of them was shot dead
himself and the second wounded in an ensuing fire- fight, Israel Radio
reported.
The two gunmen opened fire at a group of Israelis as they were
hiking in a valley near the city, police spokesman...
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 Five Palestinian militants were killed in two separate Israeli strikes
late Thursday in the southern and central Gaza Strip, medics in the
enclave said.
Four of the gunmen were members of the radical Islamic Jihad and one was from Hamas, witnesses said.
Two militants were killed when an Israeli plane fired a missile at
a car...
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 No increase in Egyptian border troops is needed amid heightened tension
with Israel over smuggling of weapons from the Egyptian Sinai into the
Gaza Strip, Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday.
He was speaking after talks with Egyptian President Honsy Mubarak,
his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and Defence Minister...
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 At least 31 people were killed and around 100 wounded Tuesday in a wave
of violence in Iraq. The US army said it killed 13 militants during
operations that began a day earlier.
In one incident, 23 people were killed when a suicide attacker
detonated his bomb-riddled car simultaneously when another two suicide
bombers detonated...
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 The Taliban executed seven men they had abducted in Afghanistan's
south-eastern region, while 10 Taliban fighters and three civilians
were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
A Taliban spokesman claimed that their forces had killed three
Afghan policemen, two National Army soldiers and two truck...
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 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi arrived Sunday in Kabul on an
unannounced visit and met with his Afghan counterpart and Italian
troops in the war-torn country, officials said.
Prodi met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his presidential palace and assured him of his government's long-term support.
Both leaders assessed...
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A mysterious group calling for the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting five sticks of dynamite in a large department store in central Paris, the French Interior Ministry said.
Police found the dynamite in the Printemps department store on the posh Boulevard Haussmann after a...
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Kabul (dpa) - A suicide car bomber targeted a foreign military convoy Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing more than 20 civilians and one US soldier, officials said.
The death toll in the blast - which came a day after a tanker truck bombing in southern Afghanistan killed six people - had risen throughout...
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Military police with the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon arrested two terrorist suspects in the northern Lebanese refugee camp of Beddawi following a clash inside the chantytown, Palestinian sources said Friday.
According to the sources the two suspects were arrested after a major clash and were identified as Nader...
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Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued.
UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...
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Seven US soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US army said Thursday.
The Chinook helicopter, which had been en route from Kuwait to the military base in Balad north of Baghdad, had not come under fire and the crash appeared to have been an accident, the army said in a...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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Wednesday's military coup in the north-western African nation of Mauritania divided opinions Thursday, with demonstrations staged both for and against ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
The bigger rally supported the coup, with thousands of people calling on the new ruling military junta to "save" the country's...
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Ecuador has formally notified the United
States that it must vacate a base used to combat drug trafficking when
the lease expires next year, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Ecuadorian officials informed the US embassy of the plans, which
have long been a pledge by President Rafael Correa despite objections
from surrounding...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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 U.S.
and Afghan troops have left an isolated village in eastern Afghanistan where militants murdered nine U.S. soldiers
and injured a dozen more on Sunday, officials said on Wednesday.
According to BBC, a statement informed that the base had
been provisional and that customary patrols in the region would be upheld.
However, local...
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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed a lawsuit against United States military contractors, accusing
them of torture while they were detained at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad
in 2003 and 2004.
The men were
released without any charge and have brought individual lawsuits in four
different United States
courts: Seattle,...
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Pakistani paramilitary troops
threatened the city of Peshawar
and a close tribal area known as the Khyber Agency. The operation started
Friday, when hundreds of troops, soldiers and police crowded the capital of North-West
Frontier Province.
A day later, 400 supplementary
paramilitary troops came in Bara, the most important city...
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 Hezbollah, the Shi’a Islamic
political and paramilitary organization, sent to Israel
on Sunday a coffinlike container with the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in
the 2006-war with Lebanon.
This move seems to have impressed Israel and made it consider as a
foreword to a possible prisoner trade.
Two Israeli soldiers, Eldad...
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 Australian troops completed combat operations in Iraq, ending a five-year commitment
to the war, CNN reports. The Australian Army lowered its flag at Camp Terendak
in the southern Iraqi city of Talil
on Monday. The 550 forces stationed at the camp will return home in the coming
weeks and another 60 combat forces who worked throughout...
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, 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 Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include English portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1727; Scottish reformer Robert Owen in 1771; opera...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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 In recent events, a UN human rights envoy today visited a
prison for political prisoners at the start of an investigation into the number
of people killed and detained when the Burmese junta crushed pro-democracy
protests.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN's independent rights
investigator for Burma,
spent at least two hours at...
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 According to local media reports on Monday, eight Turkish
soldiers who were released by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) last
week after being taken hostage in an ambush were arrested and charged on Sunday
by an order of the Van Military Court.
The eight soldiers will now face
trial in custody based on "the...
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 According to local media, at least nine Turkish soldiers
were killed in fighting with Kurdish militants after midnight on Sunday, and
more soldiers were reported missing forcing Turkey’s prime minister to call an
emergency security summit The deaths dramatically increase the pressure on the
government to launch a military offensive...
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the 258th day of 2007 with 107 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Saturn, Mars and Venus. The evening stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date in history are under the sign of Virgo. They include novelist James Fenimore Cooper in 1789; William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United...
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 At least 14 people were killed and more than nine were
wounded when US strike
forces raided the west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attack took place over night; several houses were
destroyed in the attack, which took place at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT) in the
Washash neighborhood of the city's Mansour district.
The...
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 At least 200 people were killed and 200 more were
wounded when four suicide bombers drove trucks laden with explosives in the
North-West of Iraq, in the whereabouts of a small religious sect.
The nearly simultaneous blasts aimed the community of Yazidi, at about 70 miles of Mosul, in
Qahataniya. This Tuesday attack deepens the...
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Though accused by a political rival of tacit protection of
Iran-tied militia, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his optimism on his
government reconciliation on Sunday.
In the same time US military reported an attack that took
place on Saturday, causing the death of five soldiers and the injury of other
four troops. The...
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 The International Security Assistance Force wasn’t very pleased when Afghan authorities communicated the death toll from the latest airstrikes, saying “less than a dozen” civilians died during Friday’s air raids. Major John Thomas, ISAF spokesman said “significant” fatalities were recorded among the civilian population, but the figures...
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French Defence Minister Herve Morin on Thursday denied a media report that Paris was preparing to deploy reinforcements to Afghanistan to comply with the wishes of US president-elect Barack Obama to carry out a military "surge" there.
Morin told journalists in Paris that no plan to reinforce French forces in Afghanistan was...
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The French government is preparing to deploy reinforcements to Afghanistan to comply with the wishes of US president-elect Barack Obama to carry out a military "surge" there, the online edition of the daily Liberation reported on Thursday.
The new deployment is likely to consist of several hundred soldiers and will...
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French police have found five sticks of dynamite that had been planted in a large department store in central Paris, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported Tuesday, citing the Interior Ministry.
However, the ministry said that the dynamite sticks were not connected and lacked fuses, and could therefore not have...
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A British soldier, two Afghan policemen and five militants were killed in separate clashes and blasts in the latest violence erupting in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
A British soldier serving in the NATO-led international forces was killed by "enemy fire" in Gerishk district of the southern Helmand province on...
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