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. | Speaking to reporters in the Gaza Strip, PRC spokesman Abu Abir dubbed Abbas, Fayad and other members of the government the “Ramallah traitors” and vowed they will receive an “identical response as to the Israeli occupation.”
The PRC |
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. | Fresh talks to free 22 South Korean hostages kidnapped by the Taliban 10 days ago, have begun in Ghazni province, eastern Afghanistan.
A Taliban spokesman has said the health of all the hostages has deteriorated and a senior Afghan government official has said that force |
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. | It is now six weeks since Hamas security forces overran their Fatah counterparts to seize control of the Gaza Strip, but the fallout from that defeat looks as if it may be only beginning for Mahmoud Abbas and his administration.
On Friday, the Palestinian president received a 200-page report on the findings of an internal inquiry that one senior aide says is heavily critical of the Fatah forces in |
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. | Those imprisoned in Iran include journalists, student activists, labor leaders, and even dissident Muslim clerics. Amnesty International reports that Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi has been sentenced to death, supposedly for “waging war against God.†He was arrested in October 2006 after calling for the separation of religion from politics. According to the U-S State Department’s latest human rights report, |
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. | He has already published a letter to UN calling them to act against illegal behaviours by authority of Iran against political prisoners.
Mr. Bakhtavar has greeted anniversary of passing the laws during constitutional revolution. He calls people to celebrate the day in a big scale. |
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. | PLANS for a referendum on independence will be published within two weeks, Alex Salmond, the First Minister, confirmed yesterday, triggering a chorus of criticism from opposition parties.
The Scottish National Party pledged to publish the document within 100 days of coming to power, but political opponents yesterday warned |
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. | A blast near Islamabad’s Red Mosque complex has killed at least 13 people and wounded 70 others, including police, officials have said.
“A man detonated explosives strapped to his body among two rows of Punjab police constabulary members,” a security official said. |
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. | Today if one asks who is happiest with the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) success in entering Parliament, the answer will be unanimous: Abdullah Gül.
No doubt, this presidential candidate of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) with a failed bid behind him took a deep breath yesterday morning |
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. | Plainclothes security officers, meanwhile, roamed the square and checked the bags and identifications of young people attempting to attend the meeting.
Police were also blocking access to Janka Kupala Square, named for the Belarusian poet, where opposition figures planned to lay flowers at a monument. |
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. | He also said that the recent events in the Gaza Strip had accelerated plans to establish the movement.
“If we are going to have elections, then a new movement is needed. At the moment, there are hundreds of people from the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and even overseas who support the initiative. Fatah in its current state cannot lead a true reform process. The rivalry between |
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. | The warnings come as the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary signalled that the “softly softly†era for cannabis may be coming to an end.
Gordon Brown said last week that the Home Office would be consulting on whether it had been right to downgrade cannabis from a Class B |
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. | for the International Space Station.
NASA officials said Thursday the severed cables were discovered quickly, and they expect repairs to be completed before the next space-shuttle |
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. | He is one of the 1,200 extra troops that Georgia is sending to Iraq to join the U.S.-led coalition. When the troops are fully deployed, Georgia will have the third-largest number of troops in Iraq, after the United States and the United Kingdom.
“My family has |
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. | Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman stressed the Pentagon was not planning for a quick or wholesale withdrawal of forces. A phased reduction would be in line with a Bush administration view that some long-term U.S. presence in Iraq may be needed.
“Planning for reducing our forces, drawing down our forces, is certainly something that is an appropriate thing to do,” Whitman said. “We are doing |
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. | “Turkish authorities have refused transit to a sizeable consignment of Albanian weapons and ammunition bound for Armenia. They forced an Albanian ship to sail back with its cargo. One of our naval vessels loaded with containers full of weapons, mainly heavy artillery and ammunition, was berthed |
