Eurasia Press & News
BERLIN (Reuters) — A court in Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 people suspected of being involved in the abduction of a German national who says he was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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February, 2007
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1 February
Iran 2-3 years from atom bomb — think tank
LONDON (Reuters) — Iran is at least two to three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, a leading global think tank said on Wednesday.
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1 February
Bulgaria targets Libyan police over nurses’ torture
SOFIA (AFP) — A Bulgarian prosecutor launched a judicial enquiry Wednesday against 11 Libyan police officers who allegedly tortured five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a high-profile AIDS epidemic case.
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1 February
Ex-warlord elected speaker in Somalia
MOGADISHU (AP) — Somali officials were imposing martial law on areas the transitional government controls, moving to strengthen a tenuous grip on power and smother rising violence. An AU official said Wednesday that help was on the way in the form of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria.
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1 February
Training Iraqi police essential, study group says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Training the police is as important to stabilising Iraq as building up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.
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1 February
Adrift in Syria, Baghdad woman’s dreams die
DAMASCUS — For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the US authorities after the 2003 invasion.
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1 February
Millions of dollars wasted in Iraq reconstruction aid — investigators
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool, investigators say.
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January, 2007
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31 January
30.01.2007 – Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
REVIEW TOPICS: Kremlin denies link with special forces training shooting at Litvinenko picture Russian human rights activist: secret services have become instrument of authority Lugovoy says British police questioned him as witness in Litvinenko’s poisoning case
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31 January
Iran’s FM Meets Ethiopian Officials
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who is currently in Ethiopia to participate in the 8th African Union (AU) summit met with the prime minister, parliament speaker and foreign minister of that country.
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31 January
Iran, Tajikistan Ink Agreement on Education
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian and Tajik Education and Training ministers signed a 19-article Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on educational cooperation.
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