October, 2008

• 4 October

  “Arabs” among 20 killed by U.S. strike in Pakistan

  MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani villagers collected the corpses and body parts on Saturday of at least 20 people, including several suspected Arab militants as well as three children, killed by a U.S. missile strike overnight.

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• 4 October

  Money soothes tensions in Bosnian city before vote

  BRCKO, Bosnia (Reuters) – In the 1990s, Milorad Maglajcevic fought for Bosnia’s Serbs, whose wartime goal was to clear Muslims from areas they wanted for Serbs alone.

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• 4 October

  Bosnia wartime commander arrested

  SARAJEVO (Reuters)SARAJEVO, October 4 (Reuters) – Bosnian police have arrested Muslim wartime commander Naser Oric, three months after he was acquitted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal of charges against Bosnian Serbs, a police source said Saturday.

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• 4 October

  Six killed in Ukraine mine blast: ministry

  KIEV (Reuters) – A methane explosion at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine Saturday killed six people, the country’s Emergencies Ministry said.The blast ripped through the Duvanna mine in the city of Sukhodolsk in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.

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• 4 October

  15 Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with PKK

  ANKARA (Reuters) – Fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish PKK separatist rebels in southeast Turkey Saturday, CNN and other media said.

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• 4 October

  Russian soldiers killed in S.Ossetia blast

  A number of people have been killed in a car explosion near a Russian base in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia. Initial information about the blast in the regional capital of Tskhinvali came from a South Ossetian news agency.

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• 4 October

  Syria rebuffs nuclear inspectors

  The head of Syria’s nuclear programme has said that the country’s military sites will remain off-limits to international nuclear inspectors.

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• 4 October

  Iran Views Oil under $100 pb as Unacceptable

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said any price lower than 100 dollars for a barrel of crude oil is “unsuitable” for both producers and consumers.

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• 4 October

  Int’l Gas Conference Opens in Tehran

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s second international gas conference opened in Tehran today.The 2-day gathering, which is said to have some 100 foreign participants, will be addressed by Iran’s oil minister Gholam Hossein Nozari and senior managers of the country’s petroleum industry.

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• 4 October

  Iran Extends Oil Credit Facility for Sri Lanka

  TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian government has agreed to extend the credit facility for Sri Lanka to meet its crude oil requirements for another three months at a concessionary interest rate.

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