Saturday 05 July 2008
Afghan MP shot dead near Kandahar
A member of the Afghan Parliament, Habibullah Jan, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on his way home in the southern province of Kandahar.
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- AFGHANISTAN
- Afghan MP shot dead near Kandahar
- Saturday 05 July 2008
- A member of the Afghan Parliament, Habibullah Jan, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on his way home in the southern province of Kandahar.
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- G8 - JAPAN - SECURITY
- Japan tightens police security ahead of G8 summit
- Saturday 05 July 2008
- Japanese police deployed thousands of riot police as swathes of farmers and protesters marched through Japan's northern city of Sapporo days before the meeting of the world's top industrial powers begins on Monday.
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- GEORGIA - SOUTH OSSETIA
- Tense standoff in South Ossetia
- Friday 04 July 2008
- Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia mobilised reservists on Friday and threatened to use heavy weapons against Georgian forces after two people were killed in heavy exchanges of fire overnight.
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- Burma - Accident
- 38 killed in Burmese shipwreck
- Friday 04 July 2008
- At least thirty-eight people drowned early this week when their riverboat sank in Burma's Irrawaddy delta, one of the regions most heavily affected by Nargis, the cyclone which swept across south-east Asia in May.
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- TURKEY
- Ruling AK party denies attacks on secularism
- Thursday 03 July 2008
- Representatives for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party appeared in court to deny charges that the AKP is trying to replace the country's secular system with Sharia law. The prosecution is seeking to ban the party.
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- MONGOLIA - ELECTION
- Former communists win Mongolian election
- Thursday 03 July 2008
- The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party has won the general election, a poll watchdog announced after a recount. However, the Democratic Party said the election was stolen. Riots over alleged vote-rigging rocked the country on Tuesday.
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- TURKEY
- Turkish police detain journalists, ex-generals
- Wednesday 02 July 2008
- Turkish police detained 21 alleged anti-government critics, coinciding with a hearing at the constitutional court to determine whether to outlaw the ruling AKP. (Report: N. Germain)
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- SRI LANKA - VIOLENCE
- Red Cross urges end to Sri Lanka violence
- Tuesday 01 July 2008
- The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for an end to violence in Sri Lanka, where at least 70,000 people have died since the outbreak of civil war in 1983.
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