European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes pages in the world parliamentary elections in Egypt turn violent Egypt police barred voters from polling stations and arrested about 100 opposition members activists As egyptians chose members of the upper chamber of parliament in an election marred by violence that killed one the arrests of the Muslim brotherhood added to the hundreds already detained in a crack Down of the opposition group since it said would Field Candi dates for the shura Council in a Sharp rebuke to president Hosni Mubarak attempts to limit the organizations political Particia will new israeli satellite be Able to spy on Iran Tel Israel israels military launched a spy satellite Early the defense minis try and a senior official suggested it could help keep track of developments in the ofek 7 satellite was launched and successfully injected into the ministry said in a israels army radio said its Resolution was High enough to detect objects of 28 inches on the the chief of the defense minis try space Haim suggested that the Satel Lite could be used to counter Iran efforts to develop a nuclear opposition movement holds anti Putin rally Moscow a protest in mos cow led by chess Champion Garry Kasparov and other critics of president Vladimir Putin ended peacefully in marked contrast to their last demonstration which ended in beatings and Interior ministry troops stood by quietly As the crowd swelled to about authorities did not in despite warnings by officials that no More than 500 pro testers could gather at the near Moscow Pushkin from the associated press nine killed in Gaza City fighting by Sarah Eldeeb the associated press Gaza Gaza strip rival gunmen exchanged fire at two Gaza and cab inet ministers fled their weekly meeting after the government Headquarters was hit in Cross fire in the latest round in an increasingly brutal Power struggle Between Hamas and in nine palestinians were killed Mon including three shot dead in beit Hanoun Hospital in Northern at Gaza largest Shifa in Gaza combatants fired grenades and assault after apparently from Laid siege to the House of Jamal Abu the senior Fatah official in North Ern then dragged him outside and killed Security officials medics said he was hit by 45 Fatah spokesman Maher Mokdad harshly Abbas Haniyeh denounced the what is if not a he pledging the Battles came a Day after two men were thrown to their deaths from High Rise roof signalling a rapid descent into fallout con appeals for Calm by the leaders of the two rival president Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and prime minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas whose Home came under fire went repeated attempts to secure a ceasefire also the bloodiest clash of the Day took place in the Northern Gaza town of beit Fatah and Hamas gunmen exchanged fire near the killing a Hamas the Bat tie the moved to the where three men a father and two sons from the Fatah Allied Almasri clan were shot Mohammed a Volunteer for the red Crescent Rescue said one of the Almasri was shot from close ten peo ple were in another the Hamas con trolled Shifa Hospital came under fire from the Fatah Allied Bakr after two of its members were killed in clashes with Bakr gunmen fired mortars and rocket pro pulled Security officials draw ing Hamas fire from within the Bushes wrap up today visit to Bulgaria by William Kole the associated press Bulgaria it was a meeting of the Georges Bush and bulgarian president Georgi a armanovs first name is just a Vowel off but that was close enough for i Call him he Calls me Bush joked As the two leaders appeared together at a news Bush quip had echoes of an earlier statement at his first Stop last week in the czech where he talked about tensions be tween the and Russia and said he had a message for presi Dent Putin i Call him Bush ended mondays news conference with a word of gratitude from one George to thanks for having he told first lady Laura Bush and Par Ivanovs Zorka opened an american childrens Corner in the Sofia City and Laura Bush donated several Hundred science fiction books and works for Sofia children will be Able to read the which we with the american president have read to our children and which our parents read to us when we were Chil bulgarian National radio quoted Laura Bush As Palvanova said the Reading Cor Ner was the first of its kind not just in Bulgaria but in the bal the two also attended a presen tation of projects financed by a program which sup ports Micro business develop they Learned about Micro projects in different parts of Bulgaria financed under the both first ladies received gifts from clothes makers and were presented with hand crocheted to they also were sitting in on a round table discussion about and Laura Bush was visiting the Boyana Church near a woman holds and bul Garian National flags during a welcoming ceremony for president Bush on monday in the bulgarian capital Petar flags face wrong Way along Bush motorcade bulgarian capital was aflutter with Amer ican flags to Honor president there was just one glitch to the patriotic Welcome every second Flag was facing the wrong Sofia greets president George Bush with flags upside the trud newspaper headlined monday about the As it turns the flags we rent upside but every other flagpole along Bush motorcade which followed Sofias Cen trial Sari Grasko Chausee had the stars and stripes mounted in the wrong american flags Are flown with the Blue Field of stars in the upper left these flags were Hung so the Blue Field was reversed to the from the associated press study says spends most on China tops in Asia by Karl hitter the associated press Sweden the United states remained the worlds biggest Mili tary spender last devoting about billion to while China overtook Japan As asias top arms a swedish re search Institute said the Stockholm International peace re search Institute said the United states spent the most on ahead of Britain and the Large increase in the Usas military spending is to a great extent due to the by military operations in Afghanistan and Sipri said in its annual not ing that the spent billion in chivas growing military expenditures reached nearly making it the fourth biggest arms spender in the Sipri said in its annual Japan was fifth with the figures cited were in 2005 big on defense the worlds top 10 military spenders in the list shows the amount each country spent on weapons in 2005 and the share of world arms expend United 46 percent 5 percent 5 percent 4 percent 4 percent 3 percent 3 percent 3 percent saudi 3 percent 2 percent sources Stockholm International peace research the associated press it is Worth asking How cos effective Mili tary expenditure is As a Way of increasing the Security of human Sipri re searcher Elisabeth sons for exam we know that millions of lives could be saved through Basic health interventions that would Cost a fraction of what the world spends on military forces every International arms transfers have grown continuously since with China and India being the biggest importers and the and Russia the two major the Stockholm based Institute which spent billion on has used its Energy wealth to revive nation Al to restore its influence in sur rounding countries and to maximize its Geo political Sipri five Middle Eastern countries were among the top 10 importers of while much Media attention was Given to arms deliveries to mainly from rus deliveries from the Usa and european countries to saudi Arabia and the United Arab emirates were significantly the report the Institute said the United rus Britain and China together held More than nuclear warheads at the Start of although the total number of warheads is gradually being All five countries Are undertaking or planning major programs to update their nuclear weapon Sipri the report said that the government provided a total of billion in supple mental appropriations for the War on terror 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