Global Security Index - 2007-01-17 (Thursday)
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Nuclear Proliferation |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
“The international community of nations can’t and won’t allow nuclear weapons technology in this region [= Persian Gulf] to be developed.” – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister Germany, in Vienna ahead of a meeting with UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei |
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Iraq |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
A female suicide bomber killed 8 and wounded 7 when she blew herself up in Diyala province near public market and Shiite mosque. |
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Israel |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
In the Gaza Strip, Raed Abdel Foull, a commander in the Popular Resistance Committees, was killed with his wife by an Israeli missile as they drove in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
Israel has carried out tests to improve anti-missile systems to intercept both short- and medium-range rockets, including Katyusha rockets used by Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and missiles in Iran’s arsenal. |
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Kenya |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
“Today, seven people have been killed in Kasarani constituency. Police are shooting innocent civilians at will … the government has turned this country into a killing field of innocents.” – Raila Odinga, opposition leader in Kenya |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
In Nairobi police shot seven people dead as protests against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki continued. |
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Pakistan |
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2008-01-17 (Thursday) |
A teenage suicide attacker opened fire with an assault rifle before detonating himself at a Shiite mosque in northwestern Pakistani city Peshawar, killing at least eight people and wounding 20. |
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