20.06.2009 - Post-election protests continue in Iran
As darkness fell in Tehran on Saturday eyewitness accounts and video footage smuggled abroad indicated a day of increasingly tense protests over last week's disputed election. Near Enqelab Square in the center of the Iranian capital massed security forces had responded with force, using teargas and batons, to disperse several thousand protestors - fewer than the hundreds of thousands who had gathered earlier in the week...

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Klaus: EU leaders “stupid� to say Ireland deal does not change Lisbon treaty

It is “stupidity� on the part of EU leaders to suggest guarantees given to Ireland do not represent a change to the Lisbon treaty, says the Eurosceptic Czech president, Václav Klaus. An agreement reached on Friday aimed at helping the Irish government win support for Lisbon in a second referendum does not affect the ratification of the document in other states...

20.06.2009 - Iranian exiles across Germany protest against Tehran regime
With banners, flowers and photographs of the violence in Tehran, Iranian-exiles condemned the re-election of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In Hamburg, police said some 4000 people marched through the city, displaying banners reading "We demand new elections" and "Down with the dictator...

20.06.2009 - Germany's Left gears up for national elections
"If the Left is weakened in the election, there will be no stopping the neo-liberal bloc," party chief Oskar Lafontaine told some 500 delegates at a party congress in Berlin on Saturday, June 20. The September vote will be crucial for the party and Lafontaine's goal of thwarting Chancellor Angela Merkel's stated aim of forming a center-right government with the Free Democrats...

20.06.2009 - Foreigners were warned before kidnapping, says Yemeni minister
"The authorities received the threat of an attack and there was a warning given to the Germans asking them not to travel outside their area of work," interior minister Muttahar al-Masri told reporters on Saturday, June 20.  
A German family of five and a British engineer were taken hostage along with two German theology students and a South Korean nurse on June 12th while on a weekend excursion in the province of Sa'dah in northwest Yemen...

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