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European Court Rules Kurd's Trial Was Unfair Washington Post
Europe's top human rights court ruled Thursday that the 1999 trial of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was unfair, a decision that may force Turkey to order a retrial so that it can continue on the path toward membership in the European Union. Turkish officials signaled that Ocalan could be tried again, but they moved quickly to assure Turks who revile him as a terrorist bent on dismembering their country that he would not walk free.
European Court Urges Turkey to Grant Kurdish Leader a New Trial New York Times
Court ruling sparks Turkey rethink on Ocalan case Financial Times
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Nuclear Talks Without North Korea May Be Held, Japanese FM Says Bloomberg
Japan, the US, China, and other nations seeking talks with North Korea aimed at dismantling its nuclear weapons program may meet even if the communist nation refuses to return to negotiations.
Japan: Talks Possible Without N. Korea ABC News
Pyongyang's Communist enabler Washington Times
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Moscow accuses foreign spies of funding "revolution" in Belarus Xinhua
Russia's security chief said Thursday that foreign intelligence services were plotting a so-called "velvet revolution" in Belarus to topple the government by financing the opposition through non-governmental organizations (NGO) The International Republican Institute, a non-profit US organization which played a key role in Ukraine's "orange revolution" last year, met officials of the Commonwealth of Independent States last April in Bratislava and "earmarked a budget of 5 million US dollars to finance the Belarus opposition in 2005," Federal Security Service head Nikolai Patrushev told the State Duma, lower house of parliament.
Russian official: US using non-governmental groups to spy Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Iraqis take out their frustrations on security forces Houston Chronicle
A car bomb exploded in a jammed commercial district Thursday, turning the sky gray as shops and restaurants caught fire in the most deadly of a string of attacks that killed 21, including a general and colonel who were assassinated. Iraqis expressed growing fury at the relentless bloodshed, throwing stones at police and U.S. forces who came to the scene of the bombing. More than 90 were also wounded in Thursday's violence. Five more U.S. troops died in Iraq, two during the offensive Wednesday and three when their convoys hit roadside bombs Thursday in Baghdad and surrounding areas, the U.S. military announced. At least 1,611 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. More than 420 people have died in the two weeks since Iraq's first democratically elected government was announced.
Iraq's relentless bloodshed Newark Star Ledger
Violence claims 24 more lives Washington Times
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ovt warned over hostage negotiations ABC Online
A powerful tribal sheikh from Iraq's Sunni triangle has warned the Australian Government to watch its language, if it hopes to convince Douglas Wood's captors to free him.
Hostage Deadline Extended for Australian ABC News
No Word on Fate of Bay Area Hostage KRON 4
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German MPs' vote boosts EU yes campaign Guardian Unlimited
German MPs voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve the new EU constitution in a move designed to boost the faltering yes campaign in France, which faces a knife-edge referendum at the end of the month.
German Bundestag approves EU constitution People's Daily Online
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Uzbek president flies to site of uprising Seattle Post Intelligencer
Thousands of people, many of them armed, took to the streets of an eastern Uzbek city on Friday, demanding freedom for 23 prominent businessmen on trial for alleged ties to an Islamic terror group. The protest quickly turned violent, with nine people reported killed and dozens wounded in clashes with police. Uzbek President Islam Karimov and other leaders immediately rushed to Andijan, where witnesses reported chaos in the streets and security forces firing in the air. The city 300 miles east of Tashkent near the Kyrgyz border has been the scene of growing unrest in recent weeks. The Russian news agency ITAR-Tass agency said armed protesters surrounded police in two districts. Nine people were killed and more than 30 wounded, it said. In a sign of the seriousness of the situation, the government cut all foreign TV news programming, replacing them with Uzbek and foreign entertainment channels.
Armed Protesters Stage Uzbekistan 'Uprising' Scotsman
Uzbek President Flies to Site of Uprising ABC News
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Egypt's premier backs opening of polls to parties Financial Times
On the eve of a visit to Washington, and under US pressure for democratic reforms, Ahmed Nazif, Egypt's prime minister, said yesterday the country's 18 legal opposition parties could all field presidential candidates in forthcoming elections. But he said in practice the first ever contested presidential polls in Egypt, scheduled for next September, would "be more of a referendum" if President Hosni Mubarak decided to stand.
Egypt Hardens Stance Vs. Religious Groups Guardian Unlimited
Egyptian leaders defend progress toward free elections Kansas City Star
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Pakistan among key states responsible for forced labour Daily Times
Pakistan along with India and Nepal are the main South Asian states where forced labour is prevalent. Asia accounts for 9.5 million out of a global total of 12.3 million victims of this hideous out.
Of human bondage Khaleej Times
Forced Labor Said to Bind 12.3 Million People Around the World New York Times
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Mideast politics in the Americas Washington Times
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva is learning what it's like to deal in Middle East politics. At this week's Summit of South American-Arab Countries held in Brasilia, Mr.
Editorial: Arab-Latin Summit Arab News
South American and Arab leaders End Their Summit Voice of America
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Pope Seeks to Establish Ties With Nations ABC News
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his address during a special audience for diplomats accredited to the Holy See at the Vatican, Thursday May 12, 2005.
Pope issues an invitation International Herald Tribune
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Anti-terror pact with Australia soon: Kasuri Pakistan Dawn
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Thursday said that Pakistan was likely to sign a counter-terrorism pact with Australia next month when President General Pervez Musharraf would be on the first-ever visit to Australia by a Pakistani head of state. Talking to newsmen after meeting his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer, Mr Kasuri said the president would visit Australia from June 13-16.
Australia, Pakistan Set to Sign Counter-Terrorism Accord Voice of America
Pakistan says it is having an impact on terror network Radio Australia
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Nepal's rebels offer to support political parties against King Hindu
KATHMANDU: Rebels fighting for a Communist state in Nepal have offered their support to political parties that are trying to restore democracy in the country after King Gyanendra seized absolute power earlier this year.
Nepal's opposition parties unite against Monarch Radio Australia
US urges Nepal to adopt democracy Financial Times
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From prison to power in the West Bank Guardian Unlimited
The freshly elected members of Qalqilya town council are not sure whether their new mayor knows he is about to take office. Wajia Nazal has spent the past three years in Israeli military detention without trial for membership of Hamas.
Qorei Firm on July 17 Poll Al-Jazeerah.info
Hamas Rejects Hint of Election Delay ABC News
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Israel to file complaint with UN over rocket fire from Lebanon EastDay.com
Israel's mission to the United Nations will submit a complaint with the Security Council and the secretary general over the firing of a Katyusha rocket from Lebanon at an Israeli town, the Ha'aretz daily reported Thursday.
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Daughter in Dhar attack cover-up cry Calcutta Telegraph
Madhya Pradesh police continued to grope in the dark about the identity of a youth who chopped off the hands of a woman campaigning against child marriage.
Shakuntala moves SC for compensation, inquiry Zee News
Indian activist has hands chopped off by irate youth Taipei Times
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'US pushing Benazir, Nawaz to retire' Hindustan Times
The US is persuading former Pakistani prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to quit active politics to tone down the opposition to President Pervez Musharraf and to democratise their parties that they remote control from exile, a media report Friday said. The intention is that Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and Sharif's brother, Shahbaz Sharif, assume control respectively of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) since they are considered more pliant, The News said.
Benazir, Sharif have no role to play in polls, says Musharraf Khaleej Times
Musharraf's Farcical Theater of the Absurd By Shaheen Sehbai South Asia Tribune
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Pentagon proposes more than 180 closings nationwide DetNews.com
The Pentagon on Friday recommended closing more than 180 US military installations as part of an effort to streamline and recalibrate the military's mission against 21st century threats.
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Skeptical panel OKs Senate floor vote on Bolton San Francisco Chronicle
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent the nomination of John Bolton to the full Senate without a recommendation for its approval after Republicans fell short of the solid support among their members necessary to endorse him as ambassador to the United Nations. The highly unusual move by the committee, the third time it has sent a nomination to the Senate without a favorable recommendation in the last 22 years, was nevertheless an important victory for the White House. It moved one of the most contested of its foreign policy appointments a step closer to approval, given the Republicans' solid majority in the Senate. The committee's chairman, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., had predicted that the panel would back Bolton on a party-line vote. But Lugar was forced to embrace the fallback position after one Republican, Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, broke with the party and denounced Bolton in scathing terms as unsuited for the job, calling him "the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be."
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Calm on streets of Uzbekistan ITV.com
Calm has returned to the streets of Uzbekistan's capital Andijan following violent demonstrations that left dozens dead. Soldiers opened fire on thousands of protesters in Andijan after they took to the streets calling for better living conditions in the Asian republic. The death toll from the violence is still unknown but according to official reports at least nine people have died. The bloodshed came in sharp contrast to largely peaceful uprisings that sparked regime changes in the ex-Soviet republics of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan over the past 18 months.
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