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OMID Habibinia, an Iranian journalist living in Switzerland, reports on his Twitter feed that he is hearing from sources in Tehran that more clashes were taking place on Thursday (June 25), as opposition supporters attempt to rally. Habibinia writes, inter alia: Anti-Riot Police get position in Vali Asr Cr and Enghelab St. Clashes at Enghalb Sq. 16 minutes ago Reports: More than 1000 ppl

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LEBANESE security forces fired tear gas and water cannons at dozens of angry demonstrators who protested near the US embassy over Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.Lebanese and Palestinian leftists of various political groups broke through barbed wire down the street from the embassy and neared the next barricade to the mission compound in Awkar, just north of Beirut. Several demonstrators, who were

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A WELL planned and executed terrorist attack on Mumbai (formerly Bombay) has virtually locked down the financial and entertainment capital of India. Gunmen began an assault on various locations around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, armed with AK-47s and grenades, among other weapons. Initial media estimates put the death toll at more than 100, with 250 or more injured.The terrorists were attempting to

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AROUND a dozen states have issued travel warnings and their airlines have canceled flights to Thailand after protestors stormed Bangkok and other airports today, stranding thousands of travelers and dealing a blow to the country's tourism industry during the peak season.With the unrest paralyzing the airport, which handles 40 million passengers a year, and TV networks broadcasting the chaos

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CHINESE officials have been issuing a flurry of victory claims against Islamic terrorist groups, as part of a crackdown on those it accuses of targeting next month's Olympic Games. Police in the Muslim Xinjiang region claim to have demolished a dozen terror cells linked to foreign-based organizations, so far this year. The latest report didn't say how many people had been detained, but described

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WEST African leaders appealed for calm in Guinea, saying a five-day army mutiny over unpaid back-pay had the potential to destabilize neighboring states struggling to put an era of wars and conflict behind them. Tensions did begin to ease, however, as soldiers began receiving some back pay - the issue which sparked the mutiny and left at least three dead and dozens injured. COMMENT: Nightly

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LEBANESE politicians prepared for negotiations to ease the conflict between the country's pro- Western government and the Shi'ite Hezbollah militia which seized control of Beirut last week. Driven by the worst violence since the civil war, Lebanese leaders boarded separate flights to Doha amid deepening political and communal crises.Frustrated by 18 months on the political sidelines, Hezbollah

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EXPLOSIONS rocked a housing complex used by foreigners in San'a on Sunday evening. It shattered windows but there were no reports of injuries. Security sources said the explosions were probably mortar or rocket rounds fired at the compound in the upscale Hadda neighborhood. Two rounds exploded inside the compound and another blew up outside the building/After the attack, Westerners were seen

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GREEK and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday pulled down barriers across a central street in Nicosia, the world's last remaining divided capital. The reopening of Ledra Street, cut in two for half a century, was a powerful symbol of Cyprus's ethnic partition and a nascent desire for reunification.The two communities are preparing talks to end the Mediterranean island's division, an obstacle to

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PRESIDENTIAL elections in Serbia have set up a dramatic runoff for February 3 that could shape the country's future for decades. A radical pro-Russia nationalist whose mentor is at The Hague for war crimes will face off against a pro-European Union moderate who advocates trade, reconciliation, and even NATO status.Serbian Radical Party chief Tomislav Nikolic and President Boris Tadic faced an

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WIDESPREAD violence that has affected parts of Kenya, including Nairobi and the cities of Eldoret, Kisumu and Mombasa, since President Kibaki was declared the winner of the December 27 election, has largely subsided.However, isolated incidents of violence, particularly in the western provinces, continue to occur across the country.

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A CAR BOMB, consisting of 20 kg of TNT, this morning targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle as it traveled along a coastal road in north Beirut, near the predominately Christian neighborhood of Dora-Karantina. The blast killed at least three Lebanese bystanders and wounded more than 20 other people.

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KOSOVO Serbs scuffled with NATO peace keepers in the western village of Gorazdevac last weekend amid growing fears for their future as the breakaway province of Serbia edges toward independence. The protests were minor but raised again the specter of a new round of Balkan violence.An international group of mediators has failed to help Serbia and Kosovo reach an agreement over its status,

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THIS WEEK will prove decisive in Lebanon with parliament due to elect a new president as the country risks sliding into a chaotic political vacuum. The president is drawn from the Maronite Christian community.President Emile Lahoud left office at the end of his term on Friday after parliament failed to elect his successor amid continued deadlock between the Western-backed government and the

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AN ALARMED International Maritime Bureau is urging urged Malaysian authorities to act swiftly against a new spate of pirate attacks in the Malacca Strait after 10 heavily armed pirates boarded a ship and seized the master and engineer last week.The attack is the third in the waterway this year, but the first time since July 2005 that crew members have been kidnapped.The gunmen left six other crew

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LEBANON’S fragile stability was jolted on August 5th by a hotly contested parliamentary election in an important Christian district, where a little-known opposition candidate claimed victory. It will be a blow to Lebanon’s governing Western-backed coalition, which has been engaged in an intense power struggle with an alliance of opponents for months.Hassan Sabei, the interior minister, declared

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The respected French-based international business and economic intelligence system Intelligence Online carries a profile of the advisory board of GlobalSource LLC in its latest edition. In the article:WASHINGTON - The GlobalSource firm that was founded by former ArmorGroup executives has appointed an advisory board on which intelligence specialists rub shoulders with former private sector bosses.

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BRITISH and other European governments are formally warning against travel to Lebanon as the Lebanese Army continued to shell Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli. The army is battling a shadowy Islamic faction known as Fatah al-Islam.The British Foreign Office warning states: "We advise against all but essential travel to Lebanon, due to the ... political instability ... We

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Security officials from Europe's largest countries on May 12 backed a plan to profile mosques and identify radical Islamic clerics who promote terrorism, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference.The project, to be finished by autumn, will focus on the roles of imams, their training, their ability to speak in the local language and their sources of funding.

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ISLAMIC extremists and al-Qaida are using the anonymity of the Internet to recruit and train terrorists, according to a new report."In short, cyberspace is now a battlefield, and the 'war' is one of ideas," said the report, which was written by government, academic and industry experts at George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. The report is the first of its kind from

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The Winograd Report issued on April 30 dissects Israel's military and political failings in the Lebanon "summer war" of 2006. It also leaves the country's leaders with only one option. The prestigious international affairs magazine openDemocracy led its front page with the analysis by a GlobalSource expert of the devastating interim report of Judge Eliyahu Winograd's official commission.Read it

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Saudi Arabia said on Apr. 27 it had arrested more than 170 people, including trainee pilots, from seven armed terrorist cells plotting to use airliners and suicide bombers to attack oil facilities, military bases, and public figures. "Some had begun training on the use of weapons, and some were sent to other countries to study aviation in preparation to use them to carry out terrorist operations,

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North Waziristan, BBC News, - As the spring sets in Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, are increasingly visible.This bodes ill for the coalition forces in Afghanistan.But it also highlights problems for Pakistan's government. It is faced with the prospect of the Taliban and their allies trying to consolidate their expansion eastwards inside North

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Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors and marines who had boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf, on Friday, March 23rd .Britain strongly protested the detentions, which come at a time of high tension between the West and Iran.The U.S. Navy, which operates off the Iraqi coast along with British forces, said the sailors appeared unharmed and that Iran's Revolutionary

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A suicide bomber killed three people Sunday in Eilat, Israel on Jan. 29th, the first such attack in Israel in a year and the first ever in this Red Sea holiday resort.The attack on a bakery highlights the potential of the threat that Israel always faces from Palestinian terror organizations trying to infiltrate the unfenced border with Egypt."I am concerned that this is just the beginning and the

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