Tuesday 07 October 2008
Abbas must call election on Wednesday - Hamas
Hamas politicians insist that Mahmud Abbas' term as president comes to an end on January 8, and that he must call an election three months earlier. Fatah supporters argue that the presidential term could legally be extended to 2010.
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- PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
- Abbas must call election on Wednesday - Hamas
- Tuesday 07 October 2008
- Hamas politicians insist that Mahmud Abbas' term as president comes to an end on January 8, and that he must call an election three months earlier. Fatah supporters argue that the presidential term could legally be extended to 2010.
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- IRAQ
- Bombers strike in Baghdad as US envoy visits
- Tuesday 07 October 2008
- Two blasts occurred outside Iraq's foreign ministry on Tuesday as visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte prepared to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound nearby.
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- IRAQ
- Turkey vows more action against rebel Kurds in Iraq
- Tuesday 07 October 2008
- Turkish war planes struck at targets in northern Iraq for a second straight day on Tuesday. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan pledged to intensify a campaign to crush PKK rebels holed up there after 17 Turkish soldiers were killed in an ambush.
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- EGYPT
- Mubarak pardons editor sentenced for report on president's health
- Tuesday 07 October 2008
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pardoned an outspoken editor sentenced to two months in jail after his newspaper published rumours about Mubarak's health.
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- TOWN PLANNING
- 'New city' in Dubai to boast 1km-high tower
- Monday 06 October 2008
- Dubai developers Nakheel on Sunday announced plans to build a "new city", with a projected cost of 95 billion dollars. The construction includes a tower which could stand one kilometre high.
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- EGYPT - IRAQ
- Egyptian foreign minister in landmark Iraq visit
- Monday 06 October 2008
- Ahmed Abul Gheit led the first high-level Egyptian delegation to visit Iraq since al Qaeda killed Egypt's envoy to Baghdad in 2005, in the latest sign that the two Arab nations are slowly restoring ties.
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- IRAQ
- Civilians die during US raid in Mosul
- Sunday 05 October 2008
- Eleven Iraqis were killed, including three women and three children, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest during a US raid on a house in northern Mosul, the US military said.
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- MIDEAST
- Israel won't wait for bomb before striking Iran, says French FM
- Sunday 05 October 2008
- In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz during his two-day Mideast tour, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that Israel would not wait for Tehran to develop a nuclear weapon before striking its arch-enemy.
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