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. | According to Moroccan sources, “Morocco wished French President paid a long unique visit to Morocco.”
French newly-elected President’s visit to Morocco was cancelled because Moroccan authorities did not like the fact that Algeria was scheduled to be the first visited country in Sarkozy’s three-nation tour of North Africa, said non-official Moroccan sources. |
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. | It gave little other details and there was no comment on the report from the authorities or the group.
Gemayel was gunned down while driving in a Christian suburb of Beirut. The country’s ruling coalition, to whom Gemayel’s Phalange Party belongs, accused Damascus |
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. | The Nazi Abwehr Commando, Roman Shukhevych, was recently honoured in the Ukraine’s celebration of “100 years of the great Ukrainian patriot and hero” on June 30th. The description was by political party Nasha Ukraina (of Viktor Yushchenko).
Who is Shukhevych? Who is this man who was celebrated like a hero in Ukraine and by President Yushchenko’s political party? Born in 1907, Roman Shukhevych, also known as Taras Chuprunka, was assistant |
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. | Mr. Pashaei was attacked by Special Forces. He was beaten and then locked into a special bus nearby. His wife started complaining and asking for his release, she was claiming that her husband has done nothing wrong. But no one listened to her, then she started talking to people in park.
In a short time people gathered asking for Mr. Pashaei’s release. Special Forces took Mr. Pashaei away from the park to |
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. | On almost every day of the week, one or more of Israel’s news outlets carries a report or commentary on the likelihood of conflict erupting While the chief of Israel’s military intelligence warned last month that five or six different triggers could ignite a war, the focus seems to be sharpening on Syria. Ross accused Bush administration of soft treatment of official Damascus. |
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. | Last week FSB said the alleged spy, Zharko, had disclosed the names of four British intelligence officers, and given locations in Europe where meetings had taken place, including information regarding the assignments he had been given.
“This is a long story [of recruitment] and Berezovsky along with the late Litvinenko played the lead roles in it,” Zharko said in an interview with popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda. “They introduced me to British Secret Intelligence Service agents.” Earlier Saturday the |
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. | He said that the representatives expressed their anxiety in the meeting on not debating Nagorno Karabakh conflict in OSCE PA till now. Mr.Lennmarker said that OSCE Minsk Group deals with this issue and efforts in the solution of the problem have increased and the meetings are often held. “Mr.Lennmarker stated that they see no need for debating Nagorno Karabakh conflict in OSCE PA at present condition,” he said. |
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. | Emergency workers in northern Iraq told Al Jazeera the death toll could reach as high as 150.
Lieutenant colonel Saman Hamid, security forces commander in nearby Tuz Khurmatu, told the AFP news agency, “105 Iraqis were killed and five are missing … there are more than 250 wounded.” The casualty toll was confirmed by Dr Wissam Abdullah, the director of a local hospital. |
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. | Iranian Labour News Agency, Ilna, that covered news about strikes and unrest in universities has also been suspended temporarily and its director resigned.
Many bloggers are talking about the growing censorship in country. Some were journalists for Ham Mihan and share their feelings. Painful, but no surprise |
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. | While the Turkish government has repeatedly urged the United States and Iraq to move against the PKK, political complications, particularly with regard to Iraq’s Kurds, have prevented any large operations against the rebel group.
Since 2004, Turkey has warned that it will go after the PKK in northern Iraq if its warnings are not heeded. Despite repeated warnings by the United States for Turkey |
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. | The American Civil Liberties Union has led the lawsuit on behalf of other groups including lawyers, journalists and scholars it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by government monitoring.
However, Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, one of the appeals court’s Republican appointees, said that the plaintiffs did not have standing or the legal right to sue. She said the plaintiffs failed |
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. | Organization (FAO), the European Commission and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) stated the outbreak has reached 52 of the country’s 65 districts. There is no cure or known vaccination for ASF.
“There is a real prospect that Georgia may lose most of its pig population to ASF within the next 1-3 months,” the June 22 report stated. “Endemic infection is a |