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Dhouk( Noord-Iraq)- Reuters Four people were killed in northern Iraq on Tuesday when members of a Kurdish Islamic party that is challenging the dominant Kurdish bloc in next week’s Iraqi elections were attacked by mobs, party officials said. One senior official of the Kurdistan Islamic Union was among those killed …

Det p?g?r sedan l?nge en psykologisk och trakasserande krigf?ring i Turkiet mot Ekumeniska patriarkatet i Konstantinopel. Patriarkatet kr?nks dagligen i media, s?som i tidningarna Yenicag, Aydinlik, Turkiye och Yenimesaj samt p? tv-stationer s?som TGRT, Ulusal-tv, Meltem-tv med flera. Nu har ?ven det turkiska tj?nstemannafacket, KAMU-SEN, anslutit sig till den chauvinistiska, …

Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — Four members of the Assyrian Democratic Movement were fired upon as they hung election posters. The shots came from gunmen in two cars. Joseph Nabil Ishmael (19) and George Brikha Youkhana (25) were pronounced dead at the scene. Simon Edmon Youkhana (22) and Milad Zakkar Mansour …

CAIRO- AINA Egypt’s Christian Coptic minority voiced concern over the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood Monday, after the still illegal Islamist opposition group made impressive gains in parliamentary elections. “I am sounding the bell to warn Egyptians that if the Muslim Brothers come to power, Egypt will be an Islamic …

Beirut- Damascus We have a habit in the Middle East of blaming others for our problems. The problems are within ourselves and we need to recognize this sooner rather than later, in order to solve them with the least amount of damage. We need to start maturing and be responsible …

Iran has resumed uranium conversion Friday, 18 November 2005   Iran has passed on to United Nations inspectors documents on how to build a crucial part of a nuclear bomb, the UN’s atomic agency says.   Tehran says it got the information from the nuclear smuggling network run by disgraced …

An IAEA plan proposes switching enrichment work to Russia Monday, 21 November 2005   The US and three major European nations are to postpone moves to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, diplomats have said.   The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, is due to …

Gaddafi’s government took responsibility for the Lockerbie bomb Saturday, 20 December, 2003   Libya has admitted trying to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – but has promised to dismantle its programme.   BBC News Online looks at the main issues arising from Tripoli’s decision.       Q: What …

P? en internationell konferens, anordnad av Forum f?r levande historia den 15 november 2005, diskuterades bland annat behovet av oberoende internationell forskning om folkmordet p? 1,5 miljoner armenier, assyrier/syrianer, kald?er med flera som ?gde rum i Turkiet 1915. Den viktigaste f?ruts?ttningen f?r att denna forskning ska komma till st?nd ?r …

More PicturesPictures by esamedia.se ? The Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915/16 ? 90 years of denial ? The atrocitiesagainst Armenians, Assyrians, Syriacs, Chaldeans Conference – 15th of November at ABF, Sveav?gen 41, Stockholm, Sweden Programme 8.00 ? 9.00 Registration 9.00 ? 9.10 Introduction (Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, Chairperson, ABF – Workers’ …