Saturday 30 July 2011

Iraq PM pushes US training mission,

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet takes off from the Hatzerim air force base last month. Iraq will ask for future defence contracts to include provision for training, bypassing MPs to allow some US soldiers to stay past a year-end pullout deadline, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.(AFP/Jack Guez)AFP - Iraq will ask for future defence contracts to include provision for training, bypassing MPs to allow some US soldiers to stay past a year-end pullout deadline, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.



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Iraq says it will buy 36 US fighter jets (AP)

FILE - In this March 29, 2010, file photo, Iraqi Army soldiers step off an Iraqi military helicopter during a training course in Taji, Iraq. Iraq's prime minister says his country will purchase 36 fighter jets from the United States, doubling the number Iraq was previously planning to buy. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Saturday, July 30, 2011, in Baghdad that Iraq needs to be able to protect its sovereignty.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)AP - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he was reviving a stalled deal to buy multi-million-dollar fighter jets from the United States and affirmed the need for American trainers to help Iraqi forces operate and maintain the 36 F-16s.



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Friday 29 July 2011

Bahrain marchers not content with reform proposals (AP)

Bahraini women shout anti-government slogans during a protest march that drew tens of thousands of opposition supporters Friday, July 29, 2011, in Saar, Bahrain, passing in front of a billboard for a summer cultural festival. The billboard reads 'Bahrain Summer' and the flags read 'The people are the source of power.' (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets outside Bahrain's capital to call for greater democratic freedoms despite government plans to introduce some political reforms.



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Hariri UN tribunal confirms Hezbollah suspects' names (AFP)

A replica of the text of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) sits next to pictures of slain Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri at his shrine site in downtown Beirut, January 2011. The pre-trial judge for the UN tribunal investigating the death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, Friday confirmed the name of four Hezbollah suspects indicted in the case.(AFP/File/Joseph Eid)AFP - The UN-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on Friday confirmed the names of four Hezbollah suspects indicted in the case and the charges against them.



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Thursday 28 July 2011

Attackers vandalise UN Gaza summer camp site (AFP)

Palestinian children in Gaza attend the UNRWA?s Summer Games in Gaza City. Ten men have attacked and vandalised a United Nations facility being used to stage summer camps for children in the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesman said.(AFP/Mohammed Abed)AFP - Ten men attacked and vandalised overnight a United Nations facility being used to stage summer camps for children in the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.



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Wednesday 27 July 2011

UN chief starts clock to 2012 London Olympics (AP)

AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon started a clock Wednesday that will count down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the start of the Olympic games in London a year from now — on July 27, 2012.


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Missile shield will spark nuclear arms race: North Korea (Reuters)

Reuters - If U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield to protect Europe against a possible attack by Iran are realized, it will spark a new nuclear arms race, North Korea's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday.


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U.N. flies food into famin

Reuters - The United Nations airlifted emergency food for starving children into the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday as aid groups warned of a growing influx of hungry families from the famine-hit south of the country.


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Bolivia says US policies prevent ties (AP)

AP - Bolivian President Evo Morales says American policies of "imposition" have prevented his country from reestablishing ties with the United States.


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Iraq FM says country needs US help past 2011 (AP)

A U.S. soldier attached to the Golden Lions forces takes up a position during a patrol in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad July 20, 2011. Iraq's experimental Golden Lions security force made up of old foes is getting ready to stand alone as U.S. forces withdraw along the potentially explosive fault line of Kirkuk, the disputed northern oil city. Assembled as a beacon of stability in a volatile mix of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, the Golden Lions brought together Iraqi soldiers and police with the peshmerga of the semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region under the watchful eye of U.S. troops, who act as a buffer between the wary allies. Picture taken July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS MILITARY)AP - Iraq's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country needs U.S. help to train its military past the end of 2011, hinting at a possible deal with the United States.



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Palestinians to press on with UN statehood bid (AFP)

Mahmud Abbas delivers a speech to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas told delegates the Palestinians will approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body.(AFP/Abbas Momani)AFP - The Palestinians will approach the UN Security Council in September to seek full membership in the global body, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday.



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Tuesday 26 July 2011

Bomb wounds 6 UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon (AP)

A French U.N. peacekeeper, right, treats an injured colleague after a bomb explosion targeted their convoy in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 26, 2011. A roadside bomb targeted a U.N. convoy of three vehicles carrying French peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, wounding three of them in the second such attack in one month, a Lebanese security official said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)AP - A roadside bomb blew up next to a United Nations convoy carrying French peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, wounding at least five of them in the second attack on the U.N. force in two months, the United Nations said.



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Five U.N. peacekeepers wounded in south Lebanon blast (Reuters)

A Lebanese civil defence personnel renders help to a wounded U.N. French peacekeeper near his vehicle in the port-city of Sidon in south Lebanon, July 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jamal al-GhourabyReuters - A roadside bomb blew up a United Nations vehicle near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Tuesday, wounding five French peacekeepers.



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Iraqi Kurdistan bans female genital mutilation (AFP)

A young woman walks past a poster against female genital mutilation. Human Rights Watch on Tuesday welcomed a draft law banning female genital mutilation by the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)AFP - Human Rights Watch on Tuesday welcomed a draft law banning female genital mutilation by the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan.



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Norway Muslims share nation's grief and hope for unity (Reuters)

Reuters - As central Oslo reeled from Norway's worst massacre in modern history, a blond man in the grieving crowd asked Iraqi-born Iman al-Kofi, wearing a headscarf, for a hug.


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Fayyad seeks $300 mln to ease Palestinian cash crisis (AFP)

Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad, seen here on July 3, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) needed 300 million dollars AFP - Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) needed 300 million dollars "urgently" to help ease a financial crisis.



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Monday 25 July 2011

Hundreds displaced by Ira

An Iraqi Kurdish borderguard stands near the closed gates of the Iranian side of the Iraq-Iran border post of Haj Omran, 2007. The Red Cross said that fighting between Iranian military forces and Kurdish separatists has displaced hundreds of villagers in the border regions of northern Iraq.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Fighting between Iranian military forces and Kurdish separatists has displaced hundreds of villagers in the border regions of northern Iraq, the Red Cross said on Monday.



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Israel nabs boat smuggling weapons on Dead Sea (AFP)

Israelis walking by the shore of the Dead Sea. The Israeli military and police have captured a boat on the Dead Sea which they say was trying to smuggle weapons from Jordan, and detained two Palestinians on board.(AFP/File/David Buimovitch)AFP - The Israeli military and police on Monday captured a boat on the Dead Sea which was trying to smuggle weapons from Jordan, and detained two Palestinians on board, officials said.



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Sunday 24 July 2011

Malawi: President reshuffles military leadership (AP)

AP - Malawi's president said Sunday he has reshuffled the country's military leadership in the aftermath of anti-government protests that left at least 18 people dead.


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UN chief calls for Malawi to resolve differences (AP)

AP - The United Nations secretary-general says that differences in the southern Africa country of Malawi must be solved through peaceful means.


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Saturday 23 July 2011

UN Security Council condemns Norway attack (AP)

AP - The U.N. Security Council has "condemned in the strongest terms" the deadly twin terrorist attacks in Norway and offered condolences to the victims of what it called "these heinous acts."


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East Africa's famine, by the numbers (The Christian Science Monitor)

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Friday 22 July 2011

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AP Interview: IAEA chief says no progress on Syria (AP)

AP - International Atomic Energy Agency experts met with Syrian officials recently but were told that nothing would change the IAEA's assessment that Damascus tried to secretly build a plutonium-producing reactor, the agency's head said Friday.


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AP Interview: IAEA chief says no Syria progress (AP)

AP - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says his experts met recently with Syrian officials, but came away with no new information on Damascus' nuclear activities.


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UN ramps up aid to East Africa drought victims (AP)

CORRECTS NAME TO RAWLINGS -- African union peacekeepers soldier stand guard during a visit by Jerry Rawlings, AU envoy to Somalia, to displaced peoples camps in southern Mogadishu Somalia Wednesday July 20, 2011. Parts of southern Somalia are suffering from famine, a U.N. official said Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation. The Horn of Africa is suffering a devastating drought compounded by war, neglect and spiraling prices. Some areas in the region have not had such a low rainfall in 60 years, aid group Oxfam said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)AP - The United Nations says it is ramping up its aid efforts for the drought-hit regions of East Africa.



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AP Interview: IAEA chief seeks bigger crisis role (AP)

AP - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that he would like to see his agency more involved in damage control from any future nuclear disaster, in comments prompted by criticism of the IAEA's role in the Fukushima accident.


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In Palestinian city, diggers uncover biblical ruin (AP)

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a Palestinian worker stands at the archeological park of Tel Balata in the West Bank city of Nablus. Archaeologists unearthing a biblical ruin inside the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank are writing the latest chapter in a 100-year-old excavation that has been interrupted by two world wars and numerous rounds of Mideast upheaval. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Archaeologists unearthing a biblical ruin inside a Palestinian city in the West Bank are writing the latest chapter in a 100-year-old excavation that has been interrupted by two world wars and numerous rounds of Mideast upheaval.



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