CONFLICT & TERROR 06/10

Spanish hauliers on fuel strike
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:41am
Tens of thousands of Spanish lorry drivers have begun an indefinite strike over the soaring price of diesel, which has risen by 20% this year. After stopping work at midnight, many disrupted traffic at one of the border crossings between Spain and France. Full Story

Brown in tribute to Afghan dead
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:42am
The prime minister has paid tribute to the courage of British troops in Afghanistan, as the number to have died there since 2001 reached 100. Gordon Brown said: "They have paid the ultimate price, but they have achieved something of lasting value." Full Story

Robust trade aids German economy
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:44am
Strong export growth has helped Germany boost its trade surplus but analysts have warned of weaker economic conditions affecting future prospects. Its surplus rose to an above-forecast 18.7bn euros ($27.6bn; #14.1bn) in April from 16.6bn euros the month before, according to official figures. Full Story

Greek earthquake aftershock warning
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:47am
Seismologists warned Monday that a strong aftershock was expected in southwestern Greece a day after a powerful earthquake killed two people and injured nearly 150. The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5, struck Sunday afternoon near the western port city of Patras, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Athens, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. Full Story

Protest truckers plan to bring Spain to halt
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:50am
Tens of thousands of truckers went on strike Monday over soaring fuel costs, stalling their big rigs in "snail protests" that snarled traffic around Madrid and Barcelona. Spanish truckers. More than 90,000 drivers have been summoned to take part in the strike -- one of a number of Europe-wide protests against rising fuel prices. Full Story

Police: About 100 hooligans detained
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:56am
Police detained about 100 hooligans for shouting anti-Semitic slogans during Germany's European Championship match against Poland. Police on Sunday at first detained about 60 people, then a second group of 40 was taken into custody later, authorities said. Full Story

Thousands of European truckers join fuel protests
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 8:15am
Tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal on Monday stepped up protests against rising fuel prices, causing mayhem on highways and blocking border crossings. Huge tailbacks built up around major cities and on the French-Spanish border as French fishermen in Mediterranean ports ended their three-week strike over the spiralling cost of fuel. Full Story

Indonesia restricts minority sect but stops short of ban
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 8:58am
The Indonesian government announced tough restrictions against a minority Muslim sect on Monday as thousands of angry hardliners called for jihad, or holy war, against the group. The government move, which stopped short of a total ban demanded by hardliners, comes amid a raging debate over religious freedom as the mainly Muslim archipelago wrestles with its Islamic identity. Full Story

Aftershocks hit brimming China quake lake
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 9:01am
Chinese troops are carving a third drainage channel into the unstable dam holding back a big "quake lake," as water levels rise and aftershocks send more debris tumbling into the water, state media reported on Monday. Full Story

Bird-Flu Concerns Resurface
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 9:28am
Authorities here slaughtered 2,700 birds and banned live poultry imports from mainland China for as long as 21 days after a routine inspection Saturday found chickens in one of the city's poultry markets infected with the dangerous H5N1 bird-flu virus. Full Story

Pak govt scraps peace deal with Taliban
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 11:00am
Rattled by a fresh wave of suicide attacks, Pakistan government on Monday scrapped a deal signed last month with the Taliban that had been bitterly opposed by the United States and Afghanistan. Full Story

2 boys killed when a bomb they found explodes in the Philippines
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 11:00am
Police in the Philippines say two boys died and another was injured when a bomb they found behind a hospital exploded while they were playing with it. Full Story

Man denies city trip was for 7/7
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 2:00pm
A man who visited London months before the 7 July 2005 attacks has denied the trip was to find possible targets. Sadeer Saleem said there had been nothing untoward about his visit with two of the future suicide bombers. Full Story

Irish PM Cowen: We will win EU treaty vote
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 2:20pm
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen predicted that Irish voters would say "Yes" in Thursday's referendum on the European Union reform treaty, after two opinion polls pointed to a close race. Ireland votes on June 12 in the only referendum on the treaty in an EU state, meaning that a country accounting for less than 1 percent of the bloc's 490 million population could derail a pact designed to reform how it is run. Full Story

Spanish gas stations begin to run out amid protest
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 2:53pm
Gas stations in Madrid and the northeastern Catalonia region began running out of fuel Monday as an indefinite strike by truckers began to bite. Antonio Onieva, president of Madrid's station owners organization, told reporters that by 5:30 p.m., 15 percent of the capital's outlets had run out of fuel. Manuel Amado, president of Catalonia's owners' federation, said 40 percent of Catalonia's 1,714 stations had sold out. Full Story

Greece orders villages evacuated in quake-hit area
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 at 4:27pm
Authorities evacuated three villages in southwestern Greece on Monday after seismologists warned that a strong aftershock was expected in areas where a powerful earthquake killed two people and injured more than 200. The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5, struck Sunday afternoon near the western port city of Patras, about 120 miles west of Athens. Full Story

Rwandan suspects to be extradited
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:27am
Magistrates in London have upheld a request to extradite four men to Rwanda to face mass murder charges. They are wanted in connection with the genocide in 1994 in which 800,000 people were killed in 100 days. Full Story

Minister attacks Major on 42 days
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:32am
Claims by former prime minister Sir John Major that holding suspects for up to 42 days would increase terrorism have been rejected by the government. Home Office Minister Tony McNulty urged MPs to trust the police on the issue rather than Sir John who has been "out of the loop" for the past decade. Full Story

NI ministers meet PM on first day
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:38am
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been meeting Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness in Downing Street on their first day in office together. Mr Brown had promised to host the talks after Sinn Fein apparently threatened to derail Mr Robinson's elevation as first minister. Full Story

EU to work closer on anti-terrorism measures
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 10:36am
European Union governments agreed Thursday to work closer together to protect sensitive targets from a possible terrorist attack. In Luxembourg, EU interior ministers also approved a series of technical measures designed to make it easier to share information about criminals, including their DNA profiles. Full Story

French unemployment falls to its lowest level
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 11:24am
The French jobless rate fell to 7.2 percent of the working population in the first quarter of 2008, its lowest level since the early 1980s, according to official figures released Thursday. The unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage points compared to the last quarter of 2007 and 1.2 points over a year, according to the figures from the INSEE statistics institute. Full Story

No camp 'gains' in Irish EU vote
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 12:39pm
Irish and EU officials say they are confident the EU reform treaty will pass an Irish referendum despite a poll suggesting the No vote is surging. A survey published by the Irish Times on Friday suggested 35% of people would vote No - more than twice the figure polled two weeks ago - against 30% Yes. Full Story

Call for EU to build its own army
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 12:59pm
An influential Polish member of the European parliament has called for the EU to develop "hard power" and spend more money to build a European army. Foreign affairs committee chairman Jacek Saryusz-Wolski also wants the European parliament to have the final say on deployments under the EU flag. Full Story

Official: Roadside bomb kills 6 Algerian soldiers
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 4:20pm
An Algerian security official says a roadside bomb killed six soldiers in a region where Islamic extremists remain active. Full Story

Turkish PM holds emergency meeting after headscarf defeat
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 4:29pm
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold an emergency meeting with senior aides Friday after Turkey's top court upheld a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities, dampening his party's hopes of surviving a pending closure case. Erdogan cancelled his programmes in Istanbul and was to return to Ankara to chair the meeting of his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) at 3 p.m. He also scrapped a trip to Switzerland on Saturday where he was to have watched Turkey's first Euro 2008 match against Portugal. Full Story

Medvedev warns against Nato entry
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 4:32pm
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned Georgia and Ukraine of serious consequences if they press ahead with plans to join Nato. Mr Medvedev and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Georgia's president that joining the alliance would lead to a "spiral of confrontation". Full Story

Ukraine coalition loses majority
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 4:35pm
Ukraine's governing pro-Western coalition has lost its parliamentary majority after two members quit. One was from PM Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc, the other from President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party. The coalition that first came to power after 2004's Orange Revolution now has 225 seats - exactly half of parliament. Full Story

Russia and Georgia take a softer tone
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 4:38pm
Meeting at a palace outside St. Petersburg on Friday, President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia and the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said their two countries could work out their differences, including a longstanding conflict over the separatist region of Abkhazia, without international assistance. Full Story

Military says working with Iran on PKK strikes
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 4:45pm
Turkey's military is cooperating with Iran by sharing information and coordinating strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in northern Iraq, a senior Turkish general said on Thursday. Full Story

Venezuela fires missiles in exercises
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 5:21pm
Venezuela fired live missiles from fighter jets and ships Friday during exercises intended to demonstrate the firepower of President Hugo Chavez's military. Full Story

Russia: China chemical leak not a threat
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 5:22pm
A chemical leak in China's northeast killed three people, but the accident was contained and did not pose an environmental threat, Russian authorities said Friday. Eight people were also sickened when the phosgene gas leaked Thursday from a canister that was being dismantled at a plant in Qiqihaer, about 250 miles from the Russian border, Russia's Foreign Ministry said. Full Story

Some Somali Security Forces Reportedly Joining Pirates for Money
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 5:40pm
The mayor of a coastal town in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland reports that poorly-paid government security force members are joining forces with local pirates, who are earning millions of dollars from ransom payments. Puntland officials acknowledge that huge ransoms from ship owners are encouraging more and more people to view piracy as a quick way to make money. Full Story

Israel to attack Iran unless enrichment stops: minister
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 6:11pm
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday. Full Story

Ecuador, Colombia Reported to Restore Diplomatic Ties
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 6:11pm
The U.S.-based Carter Center says Colombia and Ecuador have agreed to restore some diplomatic ties following mediation efforts by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Full Story

Assailants attack police head in Russia's Chechnya
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 6:24pm
An explosion ripped apart a car carrying a district police chief in Chechnya on Friday and gunmen then shot at the burning vehicle, a source at the law enforcement agencies told Interfax news agency. Full Story

Pakistan seeks UN Bhutto inquiry
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:28pm
Pakistan's new government has asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December. A UN spokeswoman said the request was contained in a letter from Pakistan's Foreign Minister sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Full Story

Crackdown deals crushing blow to Mexican drug gangs
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:29pm
The Mexican government's 18-month campaign against the country's organized-drug gangs has cost the gangsters who lead them some $5.5 billion and all but shut down one of the largest smuggling operations, officials said on Friday. Full Story

Conviction upheld for Houston-born terrorist
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8:30pm
A federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday of a Virginia man convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, but said that he must be re-sentenced. Full Story

Group urges recall of Venezuela diplomat
Posted on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 9:18pm
A leading anti-Semitism watchdog group wants Venezuela's ambassador to Russia recalled. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center says Ambassador Alexis Navarro made anti-Semitic comments. Full Story

Pak PM for early and peaceful solution of Kashmir issue
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:35am
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that an early, just and peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue as per the wishes of the Kashmiris would help Pakistan and India to achieve harmony in the Valley. Gilani said this while talking to veteran Indian journalist and parliamentarian Kuldip Nayar. Full Story

Top militant among six killed in Thailand's restive south
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:36am
A man wanted over the killing of two Thai marines died in a gunfight during a bloody night that claimed five more lives in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said Saturday. Full Story

Pakistan defends talks with Taliban
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:37am
Pakistan's foreign minister said in Afghanistan yesterday that his government was not in talks with "terrorists" but only with "peace-loving" elements as part of a multi pronged strategy to fight extremism. Full Story

Israelis, Palestinians to start writing peace pact
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:37am
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have agreed to start drafting elements of a proposed peace accord, the chief Palestinian negotiator said Friday. Full Story

Top Hezbollah Commander Captured In Iraq
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:38am
The U.S. military in Iraq has captured the deputy military chief of the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah, coalition officials said.Iraqi sources said the U.S. Army has arrested the No. 2 figure in Hezbollahs military wing. Full Story

Armed Attackers Ambush Home of Kosovo's Prime Minister
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:39am
Police say armed assailants have attacked the home of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.They say Thaci's security guards exchanged fire with the assailants, injuring at least one assailant. Full Story

IEA calls for $45trn global revolution in energy technology
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:40am
Governments around the world must spend $45 trillion (#23trn) if they are to halve carbon emissions by 2050, according to a leading energy watchdog, as it called for an "energy revolution". If current policies are maintained, CO2 emissions will more than double, The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned. Full Story

U.S. not seeking permanent Iraq bases, ambassador says
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:42am
The United States ambassador to Iraq dismissed any suggestion on Thursday that the Bush administration was maneuvering to set up permanent military bases in Iraq. "I'm very comfortable saying to you, to the Iraqis, to anyone who asks, that, no indeed, we are not seeking permanent bases, either explicitly or implicitly," the ambassador, Ryan C. Crocker, said at a State
Department news briefing. Full Story

Palestinian leader urges talks with Hamas
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:43am
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, called unexpectedly late Wednesday for a resumption of dialogue with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move that could herald a breakdown of his peace talks with Israel. Full Story

Kremlin denies reports on strengthening of Russia's
Security Council
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:45am
The Kremlin chief of staff, Sergei Naryshkin, denied on Saturday reports that Russia's Security Council would be reformed and its powers increased.Reports in the Russian media on Friday said that a bill, supposedly to be submitted to the State Duma this fall, would give the Security Council the power to issue instructions to the government and to assume the functions of the presidential administration in personnel policy. Full Story

Bangladesh party rejects unity offer from rival
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:50am
A call for national unity by the party of detained former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia was immediately rebuffed on Friday by its main rival in a sign the country's political cracks are as wide as ever. Full Story

Asian powers, US warn oil shock to hit global economy
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:51am
The United States and Asia's four largest powers voiced concern on Saturday after a record spike in oil price as worries grew that energy costs may derail the global economy. Oil prices, which have soared five-fold since 2003, posted their highest ever one-day gain of 10.75 dollars to close at a new record of 138.54 dollars in New York after hawkish remarks by an Israeli official on oil producer Iran. Full Story

Kosovo prime minister's home attacked
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 5:10pm
Armed assailants trying to break into the home of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci exchanged fire with guards, but the leader was away and his family was not hurt, police said Saturday. Full Story

Al Qaedas North African Safe Haven
Posted on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 8:40pm
Afghanistan may not be the safe haven for Islamist terrorists it once was. Yes, its still a haven for terroristsits just no longer as safe for them, thanks to forces from America, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and several other nations keeping al Qaeda on the run. Considering the difficulty al Qaeda is now having in keeping its operations consolidated in the face of this military threat, it is only natural it would consider moving its center of operations. Full Story

G-8 Energy Chiefs Meet as Oil Soars
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:15am
Japan's energy chief launched a meeting of ministers from the world's top industrialized nations Sunday by warning that soaring oil prices could trigger a global recession if they're not checked. Full Story

At least 37 missing after Ukrainian mine blast
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:16am
An underground gas explosion at a colliery in Ukraine's Donbass coalfield injured at least three miners with a further 37 missing, officials said on Sunday. The blast occurred at about 5 a.m. local time, about 1 km underground at the Karl Marx pit in the Donetsk region, the heart of the coalfield. Full Story

India, China jostle for influence in Indian Ocean
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:17am
This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy. Full Story

Iraqi leader says security deal won't harm Iran
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:18am
Iraq's prime minister sought to ease Iranian fears over a proposed security deal with the U.S. Sunday, saying his government will not allow Iraq to become a launching pad for an attack on its neighbor. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a two-day visit to Tehran that was expected to focus on the security pact, which Washington and Baghdad hope to finish by mid-summer. Full Story

Explosion at Basque newspaper, no injuries
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:19am
An explosion damaged the printing facilities of a Basque newspaper in northern Spain as people worked inside early Sunday but no one was injured, the Interior Ministry said. An apparent bomb detonated at the presses of El Correo near the port city of Bilbao at about 3 a.m. Sunday, a regional ministry spokesman said on condition of anonymity in keeping with government rules. Full Story

Pakistan to ask Saudi Arabia to defer oil payments
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:19am
Pakistan is to ask Saudi Arabia if it can defer paying for oil imports worth two billion dollars as it grapples with a deteriorating economic situation fuelled by rise in global crude prices. Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is in the desert kingdom to perform umrah (a pilgrimage to Mecca). Full Story

Russian President Warns West
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:20am
Medvedev said Thursday in his first major foreign policy speech that if NATO moves to expand further east it would seriously undermine relations between Russia and the West. Full Story

Israeli troops kill Gaza militant
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:21am
A Palestinian medical official says Israeli troops have killed a Hamas militant on the Gaza-Israel border. Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of the Gaza Health Ministry says an Israeli tank killed the militant near Gaza City. Hamas confirms the man was a member of the group and says two of his comrades were wounded. Full Story

Three guerrillas killed in Philippines
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:23am
Pro-government militiamen have killed three communist guerrillas when the rebels attacked their outpost in the northern Philippines, a military official says. One militiaman was also wounded in the clash with the communist New People's Army (NPA) in Sallapadan town before dawn on Satuday, said military spokesman Major Rosendo Armas. Full Story

US military arrests 2 suspected militiamen in Iraq
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:24am
U.S. soldiers in Baghdad captured an Iraqi arms dealer and "assassination squad" leader responsible for trafficking Shiite extremists in and out of neighboring Iran for training, the military said Sunday. The arrest reinforced long-standing U.S. allegations that Iran arms, trains and funds Shiite Muslim militiamen inside Iraq  charges that Tehran denies. The arrest also coincided with a two-day visit to Iran by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his second such trip in a year. Full Story

South Korean Protesters Clash With Police in Anti-U.S. Beef Rallies
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:24am
South Korean protesters fought with police, tried to overturn riot-control buses and smashed their windows Sunday amid a deepening political crisis over U.S. beef imports, hours after their president appealed to Washington for help to ease growing public anger. Full Story

Ruling Pakistan party says to cut Musharraf's power
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:25am
Pakistan's ruling party has said it is determined to curtail the powers of the presidency in favor of parliament, whether President Pervez Musharraf likes it or not. Staunch U.S. ally Musharraf, facing a chorus of calls to resign, told journalists on Saturday, in his first meeting with the media for weeks, that he had no plan to quit. Full Story

Fatah, Hamas emissaries meet in Dakar under Senegalese mediation
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:26am
The Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, at loggerheads since the Islamist Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip last year, have sent emissaries to Dakar to engage in a "process of fraternal dialogue" mediated by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, a statement said Saturday. Full Story

Iraqi leader says security deal won't harm Iran
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:28am
Iraq's prime minister sought to ease Iranian fears over a proposed security deal with the U.S. Sunday, saying his government will not allow Iraq to become a launching pad for an attack on its neighbor. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a two-day visit to Tehran that was expected to focus on the security pact, which Washington and Baghdad hope to finish by mid-summer. Full Story

Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish rebels in Iraq: army
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:29am
Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebels in neighboring northern Iraq late Saturday, the Turkish army said in a statement. The raid against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began at 10:30 pm (1930 GMT) and targeted the Zap area, close to Turkey's border with Iraq, said the brief statement on the general staff's Internet site. Full Story

Taliban Rebels Kill District Governor, Several Others in Afghanistan
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 2:43pm
Officials in Afghanistan say Taliban rebels killed a district governor and at least two others during an ambush in the country's east Sunday. Full Story

Bombs kill 13 in Algeria
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 3:52pm
Two bombs exploded Sunday at a train station in Algeria, killing 13 people and wounding several others, a security official in the North African nation said. Full Story

Chavez urges Farc to free hostages
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:43pm
Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has urged Colombian rebels to lay down their weapons, free all their hostages and put an end to a decades-long armed struggle against the Bogota government. Full Story

Militants attack convoy, kill 11 Afghan police
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4:48pm
Insurgents attacked a police convoy in central Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 11 police and wounding one, an official said. Militants in the east attacked and killed four men, including a local government official. Full Story

Thousands clash with police in Egyptian bread riot
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 5:46pm
Thousands of demonstrators fought with police after a protest over flour rations in a town on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, a security official and state media said Sunday. Full Story

British Afghanistan death toll hits 100
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 6:28pm
Three British paratroopers were killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Sunday in a suicide bomb attack, bringing total British military deaths in Afghanistan since 2001 to 100. Full Story

Al Qaeda threat has analysts split into 2 opposing camps
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 6:29pm
A bitter personal struggle between two powerful figures in the world of terrorism has broken out, forcing their followers to choose sides. This battle is not being fought in the rugged no man's land on the Pakistani-Afghan border. It is a contest reverberating inside the Beltway between two of America's leading theorists on terrorism and how to fight it, two men who hold opposing views on the very nature of the threat. Full Story

Former Saddam figures moved to Iraqi control
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 6:30pmEight former members of Saddam Hussein's regime have been transferred from U.S. to Iraqi control, Iraqi officials said Sunday. Full Story

Gazprom Wants to Build Pipeline From Alaska
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 6:32pm
Gazprom wants to join a gas pipeline project in Alaska and has already made a proposal to BP and ConocoPhillips, its chief executive Alexei Miller said Saturday. Full Story

Bahrain to name ambassador to Iraq
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 7:18pm
Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa said on Sunday the country is to appoint an ambassador to Iraq, days after US-ally the United Arab Emirates announced a similar move. Full Story

Military Supercomputer Sets Record
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 7:44pm
An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. Full Story

Irish Opposition to EU Treaty Rises, Poll Shows
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 7:47pm
Opposition among Irish voters to the new European Union treaty increased, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the Sunday Business Post. Full Story

Cuba rejects US human trafficking list
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 9:03pm
Cuba on Sunday rejected U.S. claims that it does not do enough to combat human trafficking, saying that Washington "has a lot to learn" about life on the island. Full Story

Farm crisis spooks Argentine economy
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 9:28pm
Argentina, one of the world's biggest breadbaskets, should be rolling in cash as world food prices soar. Full Story

Indian Police probes into parcel offices smuggling goods for LTTE
Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 9:34pm
"With security tightened in the coastal belts, persons supplying explosives and essential commodities to the LTTE are using services of parcel offices to smuggle the contraband", Indian News sources reported citing a top Indian Police official yesterday (June 8). Full Story

Courtesy Terrorism Research Center, Inc.