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By Adam Entous
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops on an offensive into the Gaza Strip face Palestinian militants who are much better armed than when the Jewish state’s forces pulled out of the territory last year, Israeli officials and analysts say.
Israel, equipped with modern tanks and aircraft, has obvious military superiority in the operation launched on [...]
Goonhilly has 61 antenna dishes and handles thousands of international phone calls, TV broadcasts and data.
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Israeli forces have taken up position in southern Gaza after an overnight incursion aimed at freeing a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
In the first big incursion since the Gaza withdrawal last year, they reached the disused international airport with no reports of casualties.
Israel’s premier said he was prepared to take “extreme action” and suggested [...]
Azeri Turkish lawyer Saleh Kamrani is reportedly held without charge in Evin
Prison in Tehran. In an interview on 19 June 2006 on Araz Radio, broadcasting from Sweden, Saleh Kamrani’s wife, Mina Esgeri, said that she had been allowed to meet with her husband in detention on 18 June. He reportedly |
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Palestinian militant group Hamas has agreed to a document backing a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, officials say.
The initiative, devised by prisoners held in Israeli jails, implicitly recognises the Jewish state.
Hamas’s charter currently calls for Israel’s destruction by force and rules out peace negotiations with it.
The deal comes amid heightened tension [...]
President Abdullahi Yusuf left Kenya, along with the prime minister and the speaker of parliament, despite earlier insisting on conditions for talks.
A team from the Union of Islamic Courts is also on its way for the talks, following their seizure of the capital from an alliance of warlords.
Diplomats say there is a window [...]
Lead defense lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi said the assailants blasted open a gate at Obaidi’s home. He told Reuters the hunger strike, not the first of its kind, would go on until Washington improved security for his team. U.S. officials said Obaidi had turned down protection and urged his colleagues to accept it.
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He had reportedly been arrested at his home in the city of Tabriz, East
Azerbaijan province, on 6 April with his 16-year-old brother Morteza. Their younger brother, 14-year-old Mohammad Reza, had been arrested |
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Media reports said the withdrawal of the non-combat troops, to be announced formally by Koizumi at a news conference, would begin as early as this month.
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Saddam, a Sunni, has admitted he ordered Dujail trials that led to executions of members of the long-oppressed Shi’ite majority now in power but said it was his legal right because he was the head of state at a time of war with neighboring Iran.
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Mansoor Sadri – spoke about his friend Babak Ahadi, an Iranian asylum seeker who set himself alight at his NASS accommodation in Bristol last year. He died the following day in Frenchay hospital.
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by Dr Alireza Asgharzadeh
In recent days many Azeri towns and cities in Iran have, once again, become the revolutionary scene of anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle against Iran’s racist and colonial order. The current movement of South Azerbaijan must be situated right at the heart of issues of racial/ethnic oppression and internal colonialism in an [...]
Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in Iranian custody on July 11, 2003, almost three weeks after she was arrested for taking pictures outside a prison during a student protest in Tehran.
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Azeri Turkish lawyer Saleh Kamrani is feared to have been abducted by the
security forces on 14 June, and to be in unacknowledged detention where he would be at risk of torture. He reportedly needs medication for a heart condition. He may be held solely |
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Appearing this year before the US Congress, Microsoft made a number of commitments to improve the notification they make when they remove content or access – however these commitments only make the systems of repression more transparent, doing nothing to actually decrease censorship.
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