May 25, 2007

News Roundup: Iran, Lebanon, Ukraine, Nigeria

Iran. U.N. inspectors visited an Iranian nuclear facility today and were scheduled to visit another later in the day.

Terrorism. In a new video, a group calling itself al-Qaida's wing in the Levant threatened to attack buildings in Lebanon unless the army withdrew from an embattled Palestinian refugee camp.

Mideast. An Israeli airstrike hit a Hamas compound in southern Gaza today, killing two people and wounding seven others, according to Palestinian officials.

Ukraine. Bloomberg News reports that "Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko took Interior Ministry troops under his control, a day after the interior minister used the troops to bar the newly appointed acting Prosecutor General from entering his office."

World. Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers, including two Americans and four Brits, today from a ship off the coast of Nigeria, bringing the number of foreigners captive in Nigeria to over 20.

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