Eurasia

Podgorica – A doctor at Montenegro’s main clinical centre has announced the leader of the opposition Serbian List Andrija Mandic was released from hospital on Monday.

Sofia – A delegation from the European Parliament has been visiting a site near Bulgaria’s Rila Mountain national park, where activists claim illegal construction is damaging the environment.

Pristina – Kosovo Albanians have found their second home in Switzerland from where they have continued to help their homeland, Kosovo’s President said during a trip to the country.

WAM, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani rescuers pulled 160 bodies from the rubble of hundreds of mud-walled homes flattened by a powerful earthquake in the southwestern province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, government officials said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday ratified treaties with the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia that will allow Moscow to station thousands of troops there.

TEHRAN (FNA)- New Delhi’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to pay a visit to Tehran on November 1 to discuss the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project within the two countries’ joint commission.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Belarusian-Iranian Belpars Petroleum Company Ltd (BPC) was handed control over the Fahlian oil layer in addition to other layers of the Jufeyr (Jofeireh) field in Iran’s oil-rich province of Khuzestan near the Iraqi border.

Sarajevo – A new proposed indictment against wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been discussed at a status conference held at The Hague war crimes tribunal.

Skopje – Macedonia police are probing claims by a witness who claims the secret police were behind an assassination attempt on ex-President Kiro Gligorov in 1995, reports say.

Skopje – About 60 high- and low-ranking police officers from Macedonia’s northeast town of Kumanovo, have been relieved of their duties over suspected involvement in crime, reports say.