News for December 2009
BEIRUT (Agencies)
Lebanon’s army said on Tuesday it fired at four Israeli warplanes which flew at low altitude over south Lebanon.
“The army’s anti-aircraft guns fired in the direction of four Phantom-type enemy Israeli planes that had …
Social Democratic candidate Ivo Josipovic will face his former party colleague, Milan Bandic, in a run-off early next month.
By Natasa Radic in Zagreb for Southeast European Times — 28/12/09
Ivo Josipovic casts his ballot at a …
CAIRO (Agencies)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said Tuesday that Middle East peace talks could not be relaunched until Israel halts its settlement activity, which Tel Aviv said would continue in Jerusalem with 700 new …
KABUL (AFP)
An Afghan soldier opened fire on foreign troops wounding one American and two Italian soldiers in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, military officials said.
A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the U.S. …
BELGRADE, Serbia — Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), said on Saturday (December 26th) that the party will undergo a major reform in its policy, programme, and leadership next …
Dear Sir:
I just returned from a cruise on the Norwegian Gem. While at the lovely Bahamas on December 23, 2009, our group of ten took a taxi to the public beach by the Atlantis, Comfort …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Al Arabiya, AFP)
The chances of a new Palestinian uprising erupting in 2010 are low, barring a dramatic event like an attack on Muslim holy places, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency …
Macedonians can look forward to a recovery following this year’s 1.3% contraction.
(Reuters, RTTNews – 29/12/09; IMF, Wall Street Journal – 28/12/09)
Macedonian Prime Minister Gruevski’s administration cut planned spending and issued euro-denominated bonds in response to …
A roll-on roll-off ferry with 88 passengers and crew sank off Batangas province shortly before midnight Saturday, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.
Lieutenant Commander Armand Balilo, Coast Guard spokesman, told radio station dzMM in an …
Dear Sir:
I have been reading with much disgust your articles written here and elsewhere. It would appear to me that in those articles you seem to be insinuating that all Dominicans are fools for having …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies)
Israel announced plans on Monday to build nearly 700 new homes for Jewish settlers in areas of the occupied West Bank it considers part of Jerusalem, a city it has excluded from a …
DUBAI (Mona Moussly)
A Nigerian man who tried to blow up an American passenger plane on Christmas Day was a student at a university in Dubai for seven months, the university confirmed to Al Arabiya on …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AL Arabiya)
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday declared that Turkey had no place in mediating peace talks between Israel and Syria, despite “hints” to the contrary made by his government colleagues.
Lieberman …
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Imer Selmani was re-elected on Saturday (December 26th) as leader of the New Democracy Party at its first congress held in Skopje. Selmani said that because the country has no alternative to …
By Fritz-Earle McLymont
My heart goes out to the families of the 117,000 civil servants who are planned casualties of the Jamaica government’s transformation program. I pity the official upon whom the responsibility for implementing this …
TEHRAN (Agencies)
Iranian state television said on Monday that more than 15 people were killed in riots which rocked Tehran, of whom more than 10 were members of “anti-revolutionary terrorist” groups.
The other five who died during …
