UKRAINE

Poland and Ukraine will co-host soccer's 2012 European Championship, the first time the former Eastern bloc hosted the continental championship since Yugoslavia in 1976. UEFA overlooked the favorite Italy and a joint bid from Croatia and Hungary on Wednesday. UEFA president Michel Platini announced the winner at Cardiff City Hall after a private meeting of 12 members of the executive committee. "It will be a milestone in the common history of two Slavic nations," Poland soccer federation president Michal Listkiewicz said. Poland and Ukraine won the right to host the tournament in the first round of balloting, collecting eight votes to Italy's four. The Croatia-Hungary bid failed to win a single vote.

DAMASCUS

Olmert: Israel has no plans to attack Syria although Damascus is clearly making war preparations.

WEST AFGHANISTAN

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that he was "deeply distressed" by the killing of UN workers and children in deadly attacks in Afghanistan. The secretary-general "is deeply concerned at the security situation throughout Afghanistan, which results in increasing numbers of civilian casualties," said a statement issued by his spokesperson. "The secretary-general strongly condemns such despicable acts of violence against civilians and sends his profound condolences to the bereaved families and respective governments of the victims of today's incidents," it said. A remote-controlled explosive device was detonated Tuesday morning in the southern city of Kandahar as a UN road convoy was passing, killing an Afghan driver and four Nepalese contractors working with the world body's Office for Project Services. Separately another explosion occurred at a school in Herat, in the west of the country, killing four children and wounding four others.
Source: Xinhua

Moscow Bomb Blast Kills Businessman, Injures 4

(AP)- A bomb exploded on a central Moscow street on Wednesday, killing a businessman and injuring four other people, the office of Russia's chief prosecutor said. The explosive device, placed in a parked motorcycle, went off shortly before noon with the force of some 17 ounces of TNT, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement. The blast occurred outside the office of a private company and killed the company's director, the statement said. Four people were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity. Deputy Moscow Prosecutor Alexei Grigoryev said the blast could have been the result of a business dispute, suggesting the victim may have been targeted in a contract killing. He said there was no evidence of terrorist intentions. An Internet business-information site indicated the company, Blagvest, is involved in trade. There was no answer at the phone numbers listed. Contract killings are common in Russia.

ISTANBUL

Turkey - Assailants tied up three people at a publishing house that distributes Bibles in Turkey and then slit their throats Wednesday, adding to a string of attacks apparently targeting the country's tiny Christian minority.

Killing the children of Mohammad

Killing the children of Mohammad...In the name of Islam..yes..you are really twisted!
And some think that Mohammad will welcome you with open arms?
You are soooo riped off!

Photo courtesy of AFP/By Wissam Al Sudani

A report pleace!

We want to see the U.N.´s investigation and report of the genocide of the children of Mohammad and which that have not done what they should have to prevent it! And which support it!Well...we already know which are supporting it..And many of them are scattered like homeless without anything else but their phones, tapes, computers and tea ...Yes..They have made a nice "living after this life" killing the children of Mohammad...But we want a report and a documentation..

Thank´s!

Car bombs killed at least 119 people in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Car bombs killed at least 119 people in Baghdad on Wednesday,

Reports of a significant decrease in the number of Qassam rockets

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday confirmed Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian Authority reports of a significant decrease in the number of Qassam rockets fired in the past few days. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas reached an agreement in principle with senior Islamic Jihad officials, whereby the organization would stop firing Qassam rockets at Israel for three weeks. IDF sources also confirmed there has been a sharp drop in rocket fire as a result of the agreement. Other attacks, however, such as sniper fire along the Gaza Strip security fence, have continued on a small scale.

Disappointed with the list of prisoners

Israel is disappointed with the list of prisoners Palestinians are demanding in exchange for captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, according to a statement released Tuesday by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office.The statement said Olmert convened a meeting of senior officials and intelligence commanders Tuesday afternoon to discuss the list, and expressed disappointment and reservations. It also said there has been some progress in negotiations, but the road to completion is still long. Tuesday's deliberations were in preparation for the upcoming weekly cabinet meeting, scheduled for Sunday, during which ministers will debate a proposal to establish a committee to determine criteria for a prisoner swap deal.

Independents not affiliated with any political group

That sounds good..really good..And it´s about time that there can hopefully be some balance..So there might be some calm for a political process, before Arabs and Shiite´s "finish Stalin's work"..

This is more like it!

ALGIERS (Reuters) - The founder of the group that claimed responsibility for last week's deadly Algiers bombings called on militants to put down their weapons under a government amnesty and stop trying to turn Algeria into a "second Iraq."

Thank you!

More strong good moves from Sudan

The Saudi state news agency reported on Sunday that Sudan had signed a deal with the United Nations and the African Union on deployment of African and U.N. forces in Darfur, but gave few details. The United Nations said it had not yet received word. "We must move quickly to a larger hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force with a single unified chain of command that conforms to U.N. standards and practices," Negroponte said, speaking in the Sudanese capital. The official Saudi Press Agency reported Sudan had reached a deal with the AU and the United Nations for African and U.N. deployment, but it was not clear if this was an agreement to implement phase two of a three-phase plan for Darfur or approval of a larger force. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir met U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Riyadh in late March, at which time Sudan agreed to the interim package.

Strong move by Muqtada al-Sadr

BAGHDAD - Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to withdraw from Iraq's coalition government on Monday, the head of his parliamentary bloc said. Al-Sadr's ministers will "withdraw immediately from the Iraqi government and give the six Cabinet seats to the government, with the hope that they will be given to independents who represent the will of the people," said Nassar al-Rubaie, head of al-Sadr's bloc, reading a statement from the cleric. Al-Sadr, has been upset about recent arrests of his Mahdi Army fighters in the U.S.-led Baghdad security crackdown. He and his followers have also criticized al-Maliki for failing to back calls for a timetable for U.S. troops to leave the country.

"I ask God to provide the Iraqi people with an independent government, far from (U.S.) occupation, that does all it can to serve the people," the statement said.

And good for Iraq. As we can see that a government cant work with members that don´t work together. Maybe you will not end up being compared with Nasrallah. Well..That´s depend on if you keep practise politics now or how you will act.

Yes..That would be good for Iraq with independents cabinet seats in the government.. That´s what Iraq need! Well..I must give you credit Muqtada al-Sadr...For doing such a strong good move for Iraq. Let´s demand that the government will have more independent seats..

And that you don´t keep yourself and Iraqi people busy with violence. Yes...I look forward to see your political appearance. Maybe it will be easier for you to start practice that now, without incite violence.

Let´s start your political carrer, without weapons and violence!
You can be an example, for more to follow if you choose to..Let´s start your carrer..Congratulations!


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