Øksemannen på Kato Air-flyet er dømt til ti års fengsel i Algerie for å ha tilhørt en væpnet islamsk gruppe Dette kommer frem i en dom som aktor i straffesaken har fått oversatt. Selv hevder den tiltalte Ibrahim Bentera (34) at han er dømt uskyldig for å ha vært vitne til drap på fem personer. […]
Les mer»Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah told Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to meet international demands to start withdrawing troops from Lebanon immediately, Saudi officials said. Abdullah told Assad during talks in Riyadh «Syria must start withdrawing soon, otherwise Saudi-Syrian relations will go through difficulties», according to one Saudi official. -reuters-
Les mer»Russia, one of Syria’s strongest backers, has said Moscow cautiously supports calls for Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he hoped that elections in Lebanon – following the government’s resignation – would take place soon. He told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that a new government would be a […]
Les mer»Afghanistan Wednesday named its first female provincial governor, a step forward in the slow political progress of women since the fall of the Taliban more than three years ago. The appointment of Habiba Sorabi as the new governor of Bamiyan was announced in a brief statement on state-run Kabul Television. Sorabi served as women’s affairs […]
Les mer»Gunmen in Baghdad killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, a setback in efforts to close the chapter on decades of oppression. Judge Barawiz Mahmoud and his son, who worked as a lawyer, were killed as they left their home in north Baghdad […]
Les mer»The attack in Hillah, with a majority Shiite population, came as the clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance sought the support of other parties to form Iraq’s first-ever democratically elected government. Insurgents have stepped up their attacks against predominantly Shiite targets in recent weeks. The 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) blast outside the medical clinic was so powerful […]
Les mer»«Syrian policies and Syrian behaviour are barriers to a better life and a more democratic future for the people of the Middle East. When the Syrians support insurgents, or allow their territory to be used for insurgents, they are frustrating the aspirations of the Iraqi people. When the Syrians allow their troops and their security […]
Les mer»«The insurgency in Iraq has no political future because the Iraqi people have demonstrated by going to the polls in huge numbers that they believe their political future is in the process that will culminate in December 2005 with free and fair elections. The insurgents have no answer to that…It is a positive development that […]
Les mer»«As for the suicide bombing last Friday, such actions will not be tolerated by us as they are against the Palestinian interests.» Mahmoud Abbas
Les mer»Thanks to eight million Iraqis defying «you vote, you die» terrorist threats, Iraq has been reframed from a story about Iraqi «insurgents» trying to liberate their country from American occupiers and their Iraqi «stooges» to a story of the overwhelming Iraqi majority trying to build a democracy, with U.S. help, against the wishes of Iraqi […]
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