Archive for May 5th, 2008
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Palestinian fighters fired several rockets and mortar shells at Israeli targets around the Gaza Strip on Sunday night and early Monday, factions said in separate statements.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of President Mahm ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Israeli forces arrested 25 Palestinians in the West Bank early Monday, local sources and Israeli radio reported.
The sources said some of the detentions took place in Bethlehemand Azzon, near northern West Bank city of Jenin. During ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Iran will not support any package of incentives offered by world powers that violate Iran's "nuclear rights," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Monday.
"Incentives that in anyway violate our interests ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Gunmen in Mexico killed at least 11 cattle ranchers in two weekend attacks in the nation's southern Guerrero state, police said Sunday.
Traveling in 10 sport utility vehicles, the shooters sprayed bullets at a ranch in the town of Pe ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Chile's Chaiten Volcano continued to spew ash into the sky Sunday as President Michelle Bachelet toured shelters crammed with evacuees fleeing the catastrophe in the nation's southern region.
Roiling clouds of volcanic ash loomed ove ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Shahbaz Sharif, President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Monday filed his nomination papers to contest the forthcoming by-elections, local TV channel Geo reported.
Shahbaz Sharif, younger brother of former prime ministe ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Indonesian fishermen have rescued eight Philippine sailors who were swimming the Malacca Strait after their boats were attacked by pirates, an official said Monday.
The piracy of the two boats carrying the Filipinos took place Frida ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Four children were killed on Monday morning in Afghan capital Kabul in an accidental blast, according to witnesses and officials.
The blast occurred at a residential area on a hilly slope in western Kabul and the interior ministry s ...
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