| July 2007 |
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with the Italian premier and reiterated the need for deploying international peacekeepers in Gaza, currently controlled by the Hamas radical group in opposition to the pro-presidential Fatah party. 
Pakistani troops killed a radical Islamic cleric Tuesday during an assault on Islamabad's Red Mosque to end a weeklong standoff with entrenched militants, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. 
A Russian emergencies ministry plane landed in Moscow Tuesday with 22 evacuees onboard from the Palestinian Gaza Strip torn by inter-factional violence, a ministry spokesman said. 
U.S. plans to deploy its missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic is a ploy to militarize Europe and lure Russia into retaliation, a Russian political expert said Tuesday. 
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that further delay in a diplomatic decision on Kosovo's status would have negative consequences for security in Serbia's breakaway province and Europe as a whole. 
As the newly appointed special envoy of the Mideast Quartet, Tony Blair will find himself promoting the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a former Russian prime minister said Tuesday. 
British prosecutors said Tuesday they insisted that a Russian citizen suspected of murdering former security officer Alexander Litvinenko should be tried in London. 



