IRAQ : IRAQI CIVILLIANS KILLED BY US TROOPSEight Iraqis lost their lives shot dead by Us soldiers. In mOsul on Friday American troops opened fire on two cars that were heading toward them. Inside the cars there were five Iraqi civillians that were considered as a threat.
Other three civillians in Baghdad when a bomb exploded at 7.30am (0330 GMT).
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Il Romanaccio at 1:28 PM
UZBEK : MORE THAN 50 PROTESTERS KILLEDThe group of armed men that freed the prisonaers yesterday clashed agin against the police. Many protesters were killed today in the city of Andijan. An Uzbek soldier was hunting for more protesters, "They are now dispersed and we are hunting them down," said the soldier.
One of the men who took part in the mission of freeing the prisoners said, "Soldiers started shooting from an APC. They finished off people who were lying on the ground."
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Il Romanaccio at 1:23 PM
IRAQ : TWO SOLDIERS AND A CIVILLIAN KILLEDTwo Iraqi soldiers and a civillian were killed when a kamikaze drove his car-bomb into a bus carrying soldiers on Friday in Baquba, northeast of the capital at 8am (0400 GMT). According to the military, there were more then forty troops on the bus but only a few of them were wounded or killed.
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Il Romanaccio at 12:31 PM
UZBEK : PROTESTERS CLASHED WITH POLICE, 9 KILLED 34 WOUNDEDAcoording to ITAR-Tass news agency, violent clashes erupted in the southeastern city of Andijan (Uzbekistan) as a group of protesters were marching to stop the trial of 23 Muslim businessmen, charged with anti-constitutional activity.
This group is also accused of collaborating with the Akramia religious group and to be in someway linked with the outlawed Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
9 people were killed and 34 wounded, a man described as a bomber was killed in front of the Israeli Embassy, groups of people were sorrounding police officials and, in Andijan, the crowd freed 23 Muslim businessmen.
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Il Romanaccio at 12:05 PM
TURKEY : OCALAN'S TRIAL WAS UNFAIRKurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was accused of masterminding a separatist rebellion in Turkey between the 1980s and 1990s, was found guilty by Ankara and charged for crimes against the government and "treason through separatism" in 1999.
The European Court of Human Rights has decided that Turkey's trial was not fair according to their laws.
"The applicant was not tried by an independent and impartial tribunal," said the European judges.
Since Turkey will be joining Europe in 2010, the decision puts a lot of pressure on this country.
Ocalan is now spending his days in a jail on an Turkish Island. The first sentence that was decided for him was death, which later was changed to lifetime imprisonment when Turkey was required to meet European standards in 2002.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:38 AM
IRAQ : DOUBLE BLAST KILLS TENTwo blasts hit the Iraqi capital again this morning, killing at least ten people and wounding 20.
According to al-Jazeera, the first blast took place in a restaurant in the al-Jadida district, while many police officials were eating.
The second car-bomb apparently exploded close to the al-Samarai mosque, in the same neighborhood, but other details are still not available.
Later, another official and two civillians were wounded close to the city of Kirkuk, when two bombs detonated on the roadside.
In total yesterday, 81 Iraqis lost their lives and more than 150 were wounded in several different attacks.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:26 AM
PALESTINE : IS ISRAEL LEAVING OR NOT?The official position of the Israeli government on the withdrawal from the occupied territories, scheduled for this summer, hasn't changed. However, something appears to be different, as the Chief Palestinian negotiator Saib Uraiqat has told al-Jazeera about Israel's actual intent, which, according to him, is not to follow the pull-back plan.
"The Gaza withdrawal is preoccupying the media. Yes, they [Israeli soldiers] are leaving Gaza but they are also taking tracts of land in the West Bank. Israeli spokesmen stress they are 'only' taking 8% when we should be holding peace negotiations," said Uraiquat.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:42 AM
IRAQ : 71 PEOPLE KILLED IN ATTACKSAt least 71 people were killed and 133 wounded in multiple attacks. The entire country was rocked by a series of deadly attacks and explosions today.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:37 AM
IRAN TO RESUME URANIUM ENRICHMENTIn a matter of days, Iran will start again to enrich uranium for use in a nuclear process. This will stall diplomatic relations between this country and the rest of the world.
"We converted all 37 tons of uranium concentrate, known as yellowcake, into UF-4 at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility before we suspended work there," said the head of the nuclear program in Iran, Mohammad Saeedi.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:09 AM
IRAQ : SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED BY CAR BOMBSThe center of the Iraqi capital was rocked by two loud explosions this morning. Two car bombs killed seven people and wounded at least sixteen.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:06 AM
ISRAEL POSTPONES WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA?In the case that Hamas wins the elections in Palestine, Israel might reconsider its withdrawal fron the Gaza Strip. This is what Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom implied on Monday, adding that there is no legitimate place for an armed and violent party such as Hamas.
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Il Romanaccio at 10:59 AM
AFGHANISTAN : TWO US SOLDIERS KILLEDTwo US soldiers were killed in a gunbattle against a group of insurgents east of the country, while according to the US military, at least twelve rebels were shot down by the American army.
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Il Romanaccio at 12:03 PM
IRAQ : CAR BOMB KILLS TENAnother car bomb exploded at an intersection in the south of the country killing nine policemen and a civillian.
Meanwhile the bodies of eight executed people were found south of the capital,
"The bodies were found at 6am in wasteland north of Yusufia 40km south of Baghdad and taken to Mahmudiyah hospital," said a police official.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:59 AM
IRAQ : PUTIN WANTS THE AMERICANS TO STAY IN IRAQ"Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society," said Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Tv interview with the CBS.
"But if the United States were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would be a second mistake," added the Premier.
President Putin said he is convinced that the war in Iraq was a mistake in the first place but he does not think that a withdrawal of the US army will help the situation.
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Il Romanaccio at 11:51 AM
PALESTINE : RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONIt is a close competition beteween Hamas, the Islamic Organization, and Fatah, Party of the Palestinian Authority. The Fatah movement won 50 out 84 councils in the West Bank while Hamas shown its growing political power by winning in Rafah, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Buraij and Saair.
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Il Romanaccio at 9:01 PM
IRAQ : FORMING OF THE NEW CABINETThe Iraqi Parliament has approved the election of six new ministers, Sunni Arab are now represented by an higher number of deputies. Hashim Abdul-Rahman al-Shibli, the Sunni who rejected to work as a minister explained his thoughts in this way,
""Concentrating on sectarian identities leads to divisions in the society and state, and for that reason I respectfully decline the post."
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Il Romanaccio at 8:55 PM
