European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Pages stars and St twas Mideast edition june 2007 in the world ends embargo on palestinian government the associated press Luxembourg the United states on monday lifted its eco nomic and political embargo against the palestinian govern Secretary of state Condo Legezza Rice the eur and Israel also moved toward lift ing their the moves follow the expulsion of the militant Hamas movement from the palestinian and is meant to strengthen West Ern backed president Mahmoud Abbas by resuming direct Rice said she had informed new palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad of the decision in phone Call earlier i told him the United states would resume full assistance to the palestinian government and Normal government to govern ment she told report ers at the state i told the prime minister that we want to work with his govern ment and support his efforts to enforce the Rule of Law and to ensure a better life for the Palestin Ian the eur foreign ministers recognized prime minister Salam Fay ads administration in the West Bank As the Only legitimate palestinian government and pledged to resume direct they met with israeli foreign minister Tripi who assured the europeans the new reality in the palestinian areas will Lead Jerusalem to resume relaying tax revenues to the palestinians if Fay ads West Bank government commits to we Are not looking for excuses to delay Livni said after the eur officials said the resumption of hundreds of millions of Dol Lars in Aid Frozen More than a year ago after the Hamas move ment came to Power will be re stored once Fay ads government crafts a corruption proof Book keeping Muhammed members of palestinian president Mahmoud Abbass Security Force stand guard outside the Council of ministers building during the first emergency Cabinet meeting in the West Bank City of Ramallal on Abbas tells Bush now is the time for dialogue Gaza Gaza emboldened palestinian presi Dent Mahmoud Abbas told presi Dent Bush on monday that now is the time to renew Mideast peace As the emergency government he installed reaped its first Windfall when Europe promised to restore crucial Days after Hamas violent takeover of the islamic militants and Abbas Fatah Are headed in vastly different direct while Hamas faces deep ening Abbas has received an outpouring of International Bush Lent critical support in a phone Call to who re placed the Hamas led Palestin Ian government after the group seized the lifted its sanctions on the palestinian government now that it no longer includes Bush and Abbas spoke a Day before Bush is to meet with israeli prime minister Ehud olm Ert in on Olmert said his country would be a genuine partner of the new palestinian from the associated press italian judge suspends Case against Cia agents by Colleen Barry the associated press Italy an italian judge on monday suspended the first trial involving the Cias extraordinary rendition program until the country highest court can Rule on the governments Chal Lenge that evidence used to build the Case was the italian government has asked the constitutional court to throw out the indictments against the 26 american All but one identified by prosecutors As Cia they Are accused of kidnapping an egyptian terror suspect from a Milan Street on in an argument that would effectively scuttle the state lawyers have said that the judge who issued the indictments unlawfully relied on state secrets to justify the the High court is to also hear another Simi Lar Challenge saying prosecutors had gone too far by wiretapping phone conversations of italian secret service the 26 americans have left and a senior official has said they would not be turned Over for prosecution even if Rome requests the govern ment has not yet responded to prosecutors requests to seek their and the Justice minister has indicated that the constitutional courts ruling would be a key on judge Oscar magi suspended the trial until agreeing to a request by the de sense to put the trial on hold until the constitutional courts which is expected on the ruling will indicate whether the trial will have the Power to publicly air details of the renditions moving terrorism suspects from country to country without Public Legal the judge also stopped the clock on the statute of limitations until the trial the statute of limitations on the charge of abduction with aggravating circumstances is years from the Date of the crime four years and four months have its a very clean said Alessia a lawyer for several american its like sealing the Case in Tupperware and putting it in the kidnapped priests abductors Start negotiating Philippines gunmen holding an italian priest for More than a week have been located in a mountainous Village in the South Ern and Muslim rebels have begun negotiating for his re a military official said the Moro islamic liberation front who have been cooperating with the government in tracking Down the had planned to Rescue Giancarlo Bossi on sunday night but decided against it because the Effort might endanger his said Marine Benjamin was travelling by motorcycle june 10 when armed men took him away in a 13 killed in bus Accident in Germany Berlin a bus veered off a Highway and fell into a Roadside ditch in Eastern Germany on killing 13 people and injuring about police the with 48 people was carrying a group of senior Citi Zens from in Northwestern there was no immediate word on what caused the Accident near in Saxon Anhalt police spokesman Ralf Moritz said some of the approximately 30 were seriously nuclear inspectors plan to visit North Korea South Korea the nuclear watchdog said monday it will Send inspectors to North Korea next week to discuss How to Moni Tor and verify the shutdown of its nuclear the announced by the Vienna based International atomic Energy is the first Concrete step toward North Korea nuclear disarmament after a weekend breakthrough in a financial dispute that had stalled the process for Over a in South nuclear negotiator Christopher on a Region Al tour to discuss the Issue with counterparts in South Korea and was saying Progress was being South korean tycoon says he punched workers South Korea a South korean tycoon on trial in a sensational assault Case said monday he punched bar workers after his son was Hurt in a but denied using a steel pipe and stun i delivered several Hansha group chairman Kim Seung Youn said under questioning by the prosecution in a Seoul using boxing terminology to describe the the tycoon is charged with ordering bodyguards to attack bar work ers involved in a March altercation at a Seoul Karaoke club with his 22yearold a student at Yale 8 14 killed in Mongolia helicopter crash ulan Mongolia a firefighting helicopter that had been missing for several Days crashed in Nort Central killing 14 a government official said eight passengers survived the emergency minister Ozgon Bayar 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