MINSK (Reuters) – Russia may consider deploying strategic bombers or station tactical missiles in its close ally Belarus as a counter-measure to a planned U.S. missile shield in Europe, Moscow’s envoy to Minsk said on Wednesday.
Read More »Russia says Georgian jets overflew rebel region
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia accused Georgia of sending warplanes into a Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia overnight, an allegation swiftly denied by Tbilisi.
Read More »Landslide kills 7 Pakistani villagers, 8 missing
GILGIT, Pakistan (Reuters) – A landslide triggered by torrential rain killed seven people and soldiers were searching for eight others buried under the rubble of their homes in a mountain village in northern Pakistan, police said on Wednesday.
Read More »German-Afghan believed kidnapped in Kabul
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German-Afghan citizen has gone missing in Kabul and German officials believe he has been kidnapped, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said on Wednesday.
Read More »Blast kills four in southwest Pakistani town
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a town in Pakistan’s insurgency racked province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, killing four people, police said.
Read More »Pakistan puts move to rein in spies on ice
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s 4-month-old civilian government has suspended a decree issued last month to put the military’s powerful and controversial spy agency under Interior Ministry control, according to an official statement.
Read More »School bombers killed in Pakistan’s Swat valley
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Three Islamist militants were killed by their own explosives while planting a bomb at a girls’ school in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley on Wednesday, police said.
Read More »Iranian Border Police Chief Meets Azeri Counterpart
TEHRAN (FNA) – Good relations between Iran and Azerbaijan have been conducive to the development of partnership and cooperation between the two sides’ border officials, the chief of the State Border Service of the Azerbaijan Republic said.
Read More »Iran, Turkey Agree on Gas Deal Details
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey have worked out the details, including the pricing, of a deal to produce natural gas in the Islamic Republic and export it to Turkey, senior Iranian and Turkish officials said on Tuesday.
Read More »Germany Pressed to Axe Iran Deal
TEHRAN (FNA) – Pressure is mounting on Germany to cancel its approval of a major business deal between a German company and Iran.
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