European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page la in the world kurdish rebels Call for peace with Turkey by selcan Hocaoglu the associated press separatists declared a unilateral ceasefire in attacks against Turkey on tuesday and said they were ready for peace but the it tary has intensified operations against the separatist Kurdistan workers also known As in the country at the Border with the guerrillas have been fighting for a be if we Are we will by the ruling out negotiations with Onomy in Turkey for More than two de fight Back and we have the ability to con front any turkish he it was unclear if the rebel announcement we Are renewing our declaration to halt turkish troops have massed at the fron reflected a desire to ease pressure from the attacks against the turkish Abdul tier and shelled iraqi territory while pursue turkish armed or was a Public rela Rahman the pkg official in ing drawing criticism from the iraqi tons Effort to portray the rebels As charge of foreign said in Northern government and raising fears that the con and the military As the a where the rebels have several Flint could draw in its nato the unit the rebels might also want to give we want peace and we Are ready for need states kurdish candidates in turkish parliament but if Turkey decides to attack the turkish government had no immedi by elections next month a Chance to make our bases inside Turkey or inside iraqi Kur ate response to the pkg but has gains at the polls without being accused of then this unilateral ceasefire will ignored several past ceasefires declared links to rebel Bangladesh monsoons kill 108 the associated press Bangladesh the heaviest Monsoon Rains in years have hammered Bangladesh in recent triggering mud floods and lightning strikes that have left at least 108 people dead and scores More officials said the annual Monsoon Rains have spread across Bangladesh in the past few and the Rains the heaviest recorded in seven years have also inundated parts of the and other regions of the a Lowling Delta nation of 150 million is buffeted by floods that kill hundreds of people every year and often Dis place at least 97 perished in the Hilly port City City official Nur Sulaiman army rescuers pulled at least 28 bodies from the and two More from a near by he another 67 Bod ies were recovered on lightning strikes killed 11 peo ple monday in the neighbouring districts of Coxs no Khali and the flood and disaster management ministry most deaths in Chittagong occurred in a where chunks of Earth Slid off soaked Hill sides monday and buried dozens of crudely built the country interim Fakhruddin visited the worst hit areas United news of Bangladesh news Agency our first task is to treat and help rehabilitate the affected Ahmed told Secretary general ban Kimono said the United nations stands ready to assist As required and extended his deepest condolences to the families of those killed or spokes woman Michele Montas said at Headquarters in new Pavel women and children cry tuesday after losing five members off their family to a mudslide in the death toll in a spate of flooding and lightning Rose to its h0h we band together Tehran will regret holding iranians in Iraq by Ali Akbar Sareini the associated press Iran Iran will make the United states regret its detention of five iranian officials in foreign minister Manouchehr Motoaki said tues Motoaki was referring to five iranian officials detained in the Northern iraqi City of Erbil by troops in who still re main in the military has said they Are suspected of links to a network supplying arms to iraqi insurgents an accusation that Iran has we will make the americans regret their ugly and illegal Motoaki was quoted by the official Irna news Agency As he didst elaborate on How Iran will make Washington regret the a we warn american officials to free our diplomats As soon As pos Motoaki Motoaki added that Iran was still willing to continue direct talks with the United states on which began first last month in Baghdad and which broke a 27year diplomatic freeze Between the two the ambassador level talks were the first scheduled meeting Between iranian and american government officials since the United states broke diplomatic relations with Tehran after the 1979 islamic revolution and the seizure of the Zembas a second round of talks was expected later this but re cent bitter exchanges have thrown that new round into o m i n o a i h i a i t k n i a u you judge to decide whether to indict iranian americans Iran a judge will decide within the next few Days whether to indict or free four iranian americans charged with endangering National Iran judiciary spokesman said Ali Reza the judicial said a judge would com plete his preliminary investigation into the charge against the four Ira Nia americans within the next two or three Jamshidi said All four iranian americans have been charged with acting against National several weeks he said they a also been charged with but he did not repeat that charge president Bush has demanded that Iran immediately and unc ondi Tio Nauy release the four scholars and activists held from the associated press