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Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for bomb attack on Saturday in which 17 people were injured, reported in April The armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced on its website that has organized the attack to police recreational facilities in the eastern city of Igdir. The group and said that another attack on Saturday in which a freight train derailed in southeastern Turkey, is their work. ...

Three car bombs exploded in attacks in Iraq. A parked car exploded near a hospital in one of the main Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, Sadr City. At least 10 were killed and injured about 15 AP reported. The blast happened around 10. 30hrs. morning and was directed against street vendors and pedestrians around the hospital. Another parked car bomb exploded in the town of Hilla, the blast has killed at least two people were injured and 22nd May. The town, located 95 km. of Baghdad, is the arena for some of the deadliest bombings since the invasion four years ago. In northern Iran, another car exploded about 7 o'clock. ...

152 people reached the number of victims in the suicide truck bomb in Tal Afar Iraqi city, Reuters reported. Injured in the attack at least 347, said spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Brigadier Abdul Karim Khalaf. We remind that on March 27, two trucks loaded with explosives was blown up in Tal Afar. Over 100 homes were destroyed in the first explosion, which the authorities attributed to "Al Qaeda". ...

Another Bulgarian, investigated by French authorities in the arrest of a European arrest warrant. 24 year-old Mehmed Feim Pchelnik from the village, Dolni Chiflik is a detention order "custody. " The charges against Mehmed is pimping. It is the fifth Bulgarian investigated by French authorities as part of an organized group, girls forced into prostitution from northeastern Bulgaria. The other four were detained by the Varna District Court also based on the European arrest warrant. ...

EU decided to begin contact with structural factors in the new coalition Palestinian government - ministers who are not members of the Islamist movement "Hamas", the "Deutsche Welle". This top diplomats agreed to the Commonwealth of his two-day informal meeting in the German city of Bremen. After the High Representative for Foreign Policy Javier Solana informed of the outcome of the meeting of Arab League was established that there are now grounds for progress in the peace process. ...

Kiev consecutive day was convulsed by protests by pro-presidential and propremierski supporters, notes RIA "Novosti". Political crisis deepens in Ukraine, said Tuesday. President Viktor Yushchenko called on the government to stop politicizing law enforcement and to establish by law the fundamental position of the signed in August last year agreement on national unity. In recent weeks, the ruling parliamentary coalition in Ukraine increased by 11 people and now has 260 representatives in the 540-seat Verkhovna Rada. If that trend continues, will not take any new restrictions on the powers of the president. ...

U. S. ready to attack Iran on April 6, according to Russian media. The operation codenamed "bite" ("Bite") could start at 4. 00 am (local time). The media rely on data from Russian intelligence. According to these data in 12 hours U. S. would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Not planned ground operation. Russian information site on state TV "News" quoted the interior ministry source, who also said that possible U. S. military operation against Iran. The source also relied on information from intelligence. According to U. S. sources were approved list of targets on Iranian territory and has a detailed plan for the operation which was spent during the exercises. ...

Radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr made a scathing criticism of the United States, blaming Washington for the last bloody day in Iraq. In a double suicide bombing in Baghdad market killed 181 people. Sadr called for mass anti-US protests on April 9 - the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, AP reported. Sadr's statement that was read in one of the mosques of the city suitcase is the first since his previous similar address by March 14, in which he urged his supporters to resist U. ...

Palestinian journalists plan to suspend coverage of the work of the new government of national unity of the Palestinian Authority, officials say. The reason for the boycott of journalists willing to pressure the authorities to force them to take decisive measures to release the journalist at the BBC Alan Johnson. Johnson disappeared 20 days ago in Gaza City, where he lived and worked in the past three years. Most likely was abducted on the way to work, but no public statements about his disappearance. ...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinedzhadzayavi yesterday that the failure of dictatorship rezhimv Iraq and the failure to find weapons of mass porazyavanelishava occupiers of any reason to stay in the country. "Lasted for four years occupation of Iraq did not bring anything to the Iraqis, but death, destruction and uncertainty. Occupiers invaded Iraq with a promise to free people. But they continued the war to line their own pockets and expand its market in arms, "said the Iranian president, as quoted by Iranian news agency IRNA. ...