Tribal mediators succeeded yesterday in brokering a ceasefire between al-Houthi rebels and a tribe (al Aziz) backed by the government after days of heavy fighting in the north killed more than 60 people.

Mohammed Abdulsalam, a al-Houthi spokesman, said the ceasefire was reached after the mediation of tribal chieftains.

“The ceasefire is stable and the mediation committee is in the region, but we need a mediator who has the ability to exercise pressure and monitor the ceasefire on the ground,” Mr Abdulsalam said. He did not have details on the agreement.

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Iran president accuses americans to attack “once or two countries” in Middle East friends of Tehran regime.
And russian president Medvedev to have become “spokesman” of Usa strategy. “But iranian nation will break their propaganda”.

Ahmadinejad attacks Usa and Russia, first accused to prepare war against “one or two countries of Middle East”, the second to have become accomplice. Even though iranian president, quoted by Mehr agency, doesn’t talk of a direct attack to his country, it would be of one “scenario of war against Iran”, a “copycat” prepared by americans that provides to “attack one or two countries in Middle East friends of Iran with help of Sionists to weaken the determination of iranian nation.

But iranian nation - affirmed Ahmadinejad - will shatter hundreds of staged propaganda like this”.

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North Korea today threatened a “physical response” to planned military exercises by the US and South Korea this weekend, as tensions on the Korean peninsula dominated a regional security forum in Hanoi.

The regime did not specify what that response might be, but said it interpreted the launch on Sunday of four days of naval and air drills in the Sea of Japan as another sign of US “hostility”.

“It is a threat to the Korean peninsula and the region of Asia as a whole,” a North Korea spokesman, Ri Tong-il, told reporters at the Asean regional forum.

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Venezuela has cut ties with Colombia, after being accused of harbouring FARC rebels.

At a meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Colombian ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos demanded an international commission investigate sites in Venezuela where the guerrillas are believed to be hiding.

He accused Caracas of helping rebels responsible for kidnappings, drug-trafficking and murder.

Speaking at the OAS meeting, Hoyos said: “Colombia does not want to return to this nightmare. And I say to the people of Venezuela, don’t let yourselves be enslaved by this nightmare. It is a tragedy we have suffered.”

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The Polisario Front expressed Monday condemnation of Moroccan new brutal repression against dozens of unarmed Sahrawi citizens, including activists of human rights, simply because peacefully demanding their right to self-determination and independence.

The Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, president of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has called, in a letter to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general, to “take an urgent action to ensure the protection of human rights in the occupied Western Sahara, including an effective UN mechanism for this purpose.”

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Local sources from Amran governorate revealed that fighting between Houthi rebels and government-backed tribes over the past four days have left at least 49 people dead. However, the rebels’ spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam, told local media that 20 of al-Houthi affiliates were killed by the army and not by tribesmen.

Confrontations were taking place in Al-Amsheyah, in the northern Amran governorate, where the tribe of MP Sheikh Sagheer Aziz is allegedly besieged by the al-Houthi affiliates.

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A Military Statement.

Early in this morning, July 13th, 60 land cruiser vehicles of Sudan’s army and militia obstructed JEM tours near Kuma, North Darfur. As expected the Genocidaire’s force lost the battle and fled into Kuma town. Our forces pursued them inside the town and destroyed their military camp and captured 34 well-equipped vehicles.

This defeat comes in the eve of indictment of Al –Bashir for genocides and a day after his Official Military Spokesperson or ‘Official Military Denier’ as nicknamed locally declared total dispersion of JEM forces in Darfur.

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