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Egypt Islamists call 'million-man march' for June 21

Egyptian Islamist parties, including the president's, on Wednesday called for a "million-man march" on June 21 to counter a planned protest at the end of the month outside the presidential palace. "Islamist parties have decided to organise a 'million-man march' in front of Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque (in a Cairo suburb) on Friday, June 21, under the slogan: 'Protect the revolution. Yes to peace, no to violence'," said President Mohamed Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party, political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, on its website.

Spain arrests Tunisians for spreading jihadist propaganda

Madrid, Jun 12 (EFE).- Police arrested five Tunisians on charges they disseminated jihadist propaganda and bomb-making tips via the Internet, Spain's Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The suspects uploaded more than 400 files with text, still photos and video of attacks and speeches by the late Osama bin Laden and other prominent terrorists, the ministry said in a statement. The Barcelona-based group also posted instructions for making explosives and information on the training of jihadist militants.

German secret service worried about growing Salafism

German intelligence voiced concern Tuesday over the growing number of ultra-conservative Islamic Salafists in the country, some of whom are swelling jihadist ranks abroad, while warning of an increasingly violent German extreme right. "Salafism is a particularly rapidly growing and extremely worrying group within the extremist Islamist movement," Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence, told a news conference as he presented his agency's 2012 annual report.

German secret service worried about growing Salafism

German intelligence voiced concern Tuesday over the growing number of ultra-conservative Islamic Salafists in the country, warning that some of them were swelling jihadist ranks abroad. "Salafism is a particularly rapidly growing and extremely worrying group within the extremist Islamist movement," Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence, told a news conference as he presented his agency's 2012 annual report.

Taliban claim Kabul suicide attack that kills 14

Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents on Tuesday claimed a suicide car bombing that targeted staff of the Supreme Court and killed 14 civilians in Kabul. The militants said the attack was carried out to punish Afghan judges for sentencing to death Taliban prisoners held by the Afghan government. "Today's attack was a warning should they (judges) continue to give tyrannical verdicts and intimidate (our) countrymen," said a copy of their statement sent to AFP. sak/jm/ia

Taliban release Kyrgyz hostage

Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents announced Tuesday they have released a Kyrgyz hostage they seized in April after a helicopter crash-landing in a mountainous region south of Kabul. The militants abducted the Kyrgyz man together with eight Turkish nationals, a Russian and an Afghan interpreter on April 21 after their helicopter made a hard landing in Logar province. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, speaking to AFP by phone from an unknown location, said the hostage was freed as a goodwill gesture to the Kyrgyz government.

Yemen says detains local al Qaeda leader, two soldiers die in raid

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni troops detained a local al Qaeda leader in a raid on his hideout in eastern Yemen on Monday, only days after a military operation to foil plans to set up an Islamist state in the area, state news agency Saba said. Saba quoted a military source as saying that two soldiers were killed by gunmen who fired on the raiding force as it approached the farm where Omar Ashour was hiding near the city of Ghail Bawazeer, in the eastern province of Hadramout.

String of bombings kill 23 in Iraq

Four car bombs and a suicide attack targeting Iraqi markets and cafes on Monday killed at least 23 people, the latest in a surge in violence that authorities have struggled to control. Thirteen people were killed and 53 wounded when two near-simultaneous car bombs and a suicide attack tore through a wholesale market north of Baghdad, a police officer and a medic said. The blasts went off in the predominantly Shiite town of Judaida al-Shat, which lies just west of Baquba, capital of Diyala province and one of the most violent areas in the country.

Saudi gives Syria opposition right to name pilgrims

Saudi Arabia has decided to give Syria's opposition National Coalition the right to process applications of Syrians wishing to perform the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in autumn, an official said on Monday. The kingdom handled last year's hajj visa applications without cooperating with Damascus. But Riyadh has now decided that the opposition council is "entitled to issue hajj permits for the Syrians," hajj ministry spokesman Hatem Qadi told AFP. He said Saudi authorities took the decision after a coalition delegation visited the hajj ministry.

Saudi gives Syria oppostion right to name pilgrims

Saudi Arabia has decided to give Syria's opposition National Coalition the right to process applications of Syrians wishing to perform the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in autumn, an official said on Monday. The kingdom handled last year's hajj visa applications without cooperating with Damascus. But Riyadh has now decided that the opposition council is "entitled to issue hajj permits for the Syrians," hajj ministry spokesman Hatem Qadi told AFP. He said Saudi authorities took the decision after a coalition delegation visited the hajj ministry.
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