http://en.redtram.com/ All news  in "Near East" Copyright (c) 2008 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:30:58 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 234905 | Sunday News Briefs http://en.redtram.com/go/162688006/top100/ 162688006 Beirut- Lebanese president Michel Suleiman is traveling to Saudi Arabia today on an official visit. He will be heading a large ministerial delegation. The Saudi Ambassador Abdel Aziz Khoja has already left Beirut yesterday to welcome Suleiman upon his arrival Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:08:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162688006/top100/ 139136 | US missile 'just missed' Al-Qaeda, Taliban commanders in Pakistan http://en.redtram.com/go/162671228/top100/ 162671228 A US missile strike targeting a high-level meeting of Al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders in a Pakistani tribal area missed most of them by just minutes, security officials said Friday. Two missiles hit the house of Pakistani Taliban leader Hafiz Sahar Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:31 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671228/top100/ 139136 | Indian police use force to break up Kashmir protest against visit by prime minister http://en.redtram.com/go/162671211/top100/ 162671211 Police fired tear gas and baton-charged hundreds of Kasmiri Muslims protesting a visit Friday to the volatile region by Indian Premier Manmohan Singh. The demonstrators, led by senior separatist Yasin Malik, took to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir's summer capital Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671211/top100/ 139136 | NATO forces to combat opium trade in Afghanistan http://en.redtram.com/go/162671212/top100/ 162671212 NATO forces will from now on directly target Afghanistan's opium trade to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money from reaching Taliban-led insurgents, the alliance announced Friday. NATO has generally avoided tackling drugs, with many members fearful of Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671212/top100/ 139136 | Sadr supporters blame US occupation for lawmaker's assassination http://en.redtram.com/go/162671214/top100/ 162671214 Mourners shouted anti-US slogans, torched American and Israeli flags and called for a work stoppage in Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood on Friday as an assassinated legislator was laid to rest. "Down with American, down with the occupation," Shiite youngsters shouted Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671214/top100/ 139136 | NATO plans new squadron to fight Somali piracy http://en.redtram.com/go/162671216/top100/ 162671216 NATO defense ministers have agreed to send seven warships this month to help combat piracy off Somalia, as attacks on vessels in Horn of Africa waters spiral, an alliance spokesman said. "Ministers agreed that NATO should play a role. NATO Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671216/top100/ 139136 | Smugglers force 100 off boats in Gulf of Aden http://en.redtram.com/go/162671195/top100/ 162671195 About 100 people have been reported missing in the Gulf of Aden after being forced overboard by smugglers on their way to Yemen from war-torn Somalia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Friday. The latest figure brings Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:23 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671195/top100/ 139136 | Rival Cypriot leaders hold private talks on reunification http://en.redtram.com/go/162671197/top100/ 162671197 Rival Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders held private talks on Friday in a bid to speed up slow-moving negotiations on reunifying the divided Mediterranean island. President Dimitris Christo-fias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met alone for a hour before Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:23 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671197/top100/ 139136 | Bush speaks - and stocks take another beating http://en.redtram.com/go/162671199/top100/ 162671199 US and European share prices suffered more heavy losses Friday, as fear stalked trading floors and frazzled investors looked to a meeting of G7 finance chiefs for salvation. Stock exchanges were in turmoil after Wall Street opened sharply lower before Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:23 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671199/top100/ 139136 | Suicide bomber kills 32 at anti-Taliban meeting http://en.redtram.com/go/162671194/top100/ 162671194 A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The explosion happened a day after a force Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671194/top100/ 139136 | US journalists claim cabbie took them to Syria by force http://en.redtram.com/go/162671191/top100/ 162671191 Two American journalists who were detained in Syria after going missing in Leb-anon claimed in comments published Friday that they had been abducted and smuggled across the border against their will. On arriving back in Amman in the early hours, Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671191/top100/ 139136 | Nobel Peace Price goes to veteran Finnish statesman http://en.redtram.com/go/162671154/top100/ 162671154 The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who has spent 30 years helping end conflicts in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia. The Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed Ahtisaari, 71, "for his important Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:11 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671154/top100/ 139136 | Immunity remains sticking point in US-Iraq pact http://en.redtram.com/go/162671156/top100/ 162671156 Washington has made "huge concessions" in a controversial military pact still under negotiation, but immunity issues remain a problem, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on Friday. Among sticking points is a demand that neither foreign troops nor civilian Americans Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:11 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671156/top100/ 139136 | 'Jewish fascist' gang tries to storm home of Arab in Acre http://en.redtram.com/go/162671153/top100/ 162671153 Police clashed with Jewish protesters in Acre on Friday as Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni traveled to the northern Israeli city to appeal for calm after two days of clashes between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis. Police fired a water cannon at Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:26:10 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162671153/top100/ 139143 | Jumblatt helps launch new group to venerate his father http://en.redtram.com/go/162670484/top100/ 162670484 Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblatt helped a launch a new non-governmental organization (NGO) this week that says it will invoke the legacy of his late father, Kamal Jumblatt, to foster awareness on issues ranging from drugs to intercommunal Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:50 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162670484/top100/ 139143 | Italy inaugurates solar heating system in Deir al-Ahmar http://en.redtram.com/go/162670481/top100/ 162670481 The Embassy of Italy in Beirut inaugurated Friday the installation of a new pilot thermal solar heating system in the village of Deir al-Ahmar in the Baalbek region. The system, financed by the embassy's Italian Cooperation Office, was installed in Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:48 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162670481/top100/ 139143 | New head of USAID mission has extensive experience in global danger zones http://en.redtram.com/go/162670476/top100/ 162670476 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said Friday that it had officially installed Denise A. Herbol as the new director of its mission in Lebanon.USAID Administrator Henrietta H. Fore administered the oath of office to Herbol, the agency Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:46 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162670476/top100/ 139143 | Israelis carry out operation near Blue Line http://en.redtram.com/go/162670465/top100/ 162670465 An Israeli infantry patrol crossed the technical fence in the Abbad region of South Lebanon and carried out a search operation without crossing the Blue Line into Lebanon, according to a report carried by the National News Agency (NNA) on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162670465/top100/ 139143 | Fadlallah urges Lebanese to support resistance http://en.redtram.com/go/162670463/top100/ 162670463 Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah called on the Lebanese to support the resistance and the Lebanese army, saying that both should be alerted to any possible Israeli attack. During his Friday sermon at the Imam Hassanayn Mosque in Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:38 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162670463/top100/ 139143 | Zaki says Sleiman boosted refugee camp security http://en.redtram.com/go/162670461/top100/ 162670461 The Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, told LBC television on Friday that President Michel Sleiman's inaugural speech and recent actions have reduced the level of danger in the Palestinian refugee camps. He added that no one can Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:36 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162670461/top100/