Ikke bare Gongadze: Several thousand mourners turned out in Azerbaijan on Friday to bury a murdered investigative journalist and an opposition leader gave the oil-rich country’s dynastic ruler two weeks to find his killers or resign. Elmar Huseinov, a 38-year-old magazine editor and outspoken critic of the elite was shot dead on Wednesday, prompting public […]
Les mer»Tungtvannsfabrikk i Iran nesten ferdig: Satelittbilder viser at tungtvannsfabrikken Iran bygger i Arak, snart er ferdig. Det er den kommersielle aktøren DigitalGlobe som har tatt bildene, som er analysert for Reuters av Institute for Science and International Security. Det var allment antatt at det var et stykke tid igjen før fabrikken ville stå ferdig. Den […]
Les mer»Syrian President Bashar al-Assad prepared to announce on Saturday a partial pullout of troops from Lebanon, but U.S. President George W. Bush warned nothing short of a full withdrawal would satisfy Washington. «When we say withdraw we mean complete withdrawal — no half-hearted measures,» Bush told an audience in New Jersey on Friday. «Syrian troops, […]
Les mer»3.03: For ikke å glemme: En kunstner ved navn Arnold Dreiblatt skal lage et kunstverk til det nye HL-senteret på Bygdøy: Et ni meter høyt hullkort, som skal minne oss om at nazistene brukte datamaskinens forløper, og trekke linjen frem til dagens overvåking av enkeltmennesket. Et kunstverk som sikkert vil glede Georg Apenes. Men har […]
Les mer»Øksemannen på Kato Air-flyet er dømt til ti års fengsel i Algerie for å ha tilhørt en væpnet islamsk gruppe Dette kommer frem i en dom som aktor i straffesaken har fått oversatt. Selv hevder den tiltalte Ibrahim Bentera (34) at han er dømt uskyldig for å ha vært vitne til drap på fem personer. […]
Les mer»Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah told Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to meet international demands to start withdrawing troops from Lebanon immediately, Saudi officials said. Abdullah told Assad during talks in Riyadh «Syria must start withdrawing soon, otherwise Saudi-Syrian relations will go through difficulties», according to one Saudi official. -reuters-
Les mer»Russia, one of Syria’s strongest backers, has said Moscow cautiously supports calls for Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he hoped that elections in Lebanon – following the government’s resignation – would take place soon. He told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that a new government would be a […]
Les mer»Afghanistan Wednesday named its first female provincial governor, a step forward in the slow political progress of women since the fall of the Taliban more than three years ago. The appointment of Habiba Sorabi as the new governor of Bamiyan was announced in a brief statement on state-run Kabul Television. Sorabi served as women’s affairs […]
Les mer»Gunmen in Baghdad killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, a setback in efforts to close the chapter on decades of oppression. Judge Barawiz Mahmoud and his son, who worked as a lawyer, were killed as they left their home in north Baghdad […]
Les mer»The attack in Hillah, with a majority Shiite population, came as the clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance sought the support of other parties to form Iraq’s first-ever democratically elected government. Insurgents have stepped up their attacks against predominantly Shiite targets in recent weeks. The 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) blast outside the medical clinic was so powerful […]
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