BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Bombers killed nearly 50 Iraqis on Wednesday, mostly in Baghdad, but the top US commander said a security drive in the capital was making progress and local forces could largely be running Iraq within 12 to 18 months.
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September, 2006
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1 September
9 Palestinians killed in Gaza
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community on Wednesday to “halt Israeli aggression” after nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops.
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1 September
Naguib Mahfouz, only Arab Nobel winner in literature, dies at 94
Monarch condoles Mubarak, writer’s family CAIRO — Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, died Wednesday at the age of 94, bringing tributes from literary figures and world leaders for an author who became a symbol of liberalism in the face of extremism.
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1 September
Iran ignores Security Council demand on enrichment
VIENNA (AP) — A defiant Iran continued to enrich uranium up to two days before the UN Security Council’s deadline Thursday for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, UN and European officials said Wednesday.
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1 September
Crayons, glass litter floor of Lebanese school
SRIFA — Every window in Srifa’s main school has been blown out by Israeli bombs.
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1 September
Call for dispatch of UN troops to Darfur with Khartoum’s consent
UNITED NATIONS — Britain on Tuesday circulated a revised draft resolution in the Security Council urging the deployment of UN troops in Sudan’s Darfur region with Khartoum’s consent, hoping to put it to a vote by Thursday.
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August, 2006
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30 August
Ahmadinejad: Global Security Disturbed by Arms Race
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that the current tight arms race in the world has caused such vast and deteriorating global insecurity that no country feels safe anymore.
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30 August
Larijani:US Predictions about Iran’s Nuclear Move Not to Be Materialized
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani said that the US predictions about Iran’s nuclear move may not come true as its forecasts about Hezbollah’s conditions were not materialized.
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30 August
West Invited to Participate in Iran’s Nuclear Projects
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran Tuesday extended an invitation to western companies to participate in its nuclear projects, a sign that it will not budge from its decision to continue nuclear activities for peaceful purposes.
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30 August
Police Chief: Bandit Operations in Eastern Iran Originate in Foreign Countries
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander of Iran’s Law Enforcement Police said that insecurities and bandit operations in eastern Iran, which have inflicted great losses on the country, have foreign roots. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of a police hospital in
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