Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Kazakh Transport and Communication Minister Serik Akhmetov signed a cooperation protocol at the end of the 10th meeting of the Kazakh-Iranian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic, science and technical and cultural cooperation.
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October, 2008
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20 October
Israeli police arrest 9 Jews over assaults on Arabs
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police have arrested nine Jews suspected of recent assaults against Arabs in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, including several firebombings that set some homes ablaze, a spokesman said Monday.
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20 October
British woman aid worker killed in Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – Two Taliban gunmen on a motorcycle killed a British woman aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, accusing her of spreading Christian propaganda.
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20 October
Afghan, NATO troops kill 34 Taliban in Afghan south
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan and NATO-led troops have killed 34 Taliban insurgents in two days of fighting in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s spokesman said on Monday.
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20 October
Turkish court starts hearing high-profile coup case
SILIVRI, Turkey (Reuters) – A shadowy right-wing group went on trial in Turkey on Monday on charges of trying to topple Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
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20 October
One dead as clashes escalate in eastern Turkey
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – One protester died of gunshot wounds on Monday after clashes with police in eastern Turkey at a demonstration in support of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, hospital sources said.
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20 October
Suicide bomb hits German troops in Afghanistan: police
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber hit a convoy of German troops in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing five children and seriously wounding at least two of the soldiers, a senior police official said.
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20 October
Georgia rebels accuse EU of ignoring violence
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia accused Tbilisi on Monday of breaching a ceasefire deal by firing at its villages from an EU-monitored area, and said its forces would not hesitate to retaliate.
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20 October
Libya seeks Russian arms worth $2 billion: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Libya may agree to buy more than $2 billion worth of Russian weapons during a visit by Muammar Gaddafi to Moscow this month, Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified source in Russia’s arms industry.
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20 October
Pakistani judge extends detention of U.S. man
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani judge has extended the detention of a young American man of Pakistani descent for two weeks after he was caught trying to enter a known al Qaeda and Taliban militant sanctuary on the Afghan border.
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