Eurasia Press & News

DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – The Polish military marked the end of its five-year partnership with U.S. forces in Iraq on Saturday and prepared to withdraw.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.