Eurasia Press & News

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan authorities are examining the extent of an unprecedented locust infestation that has prompted local officials in some areas to offer wheat as a reward to residents for killing the insects.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the political crisis in Lebanon, the Cairo-based Arab League said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nineteen people have been killed and 116 wounded in clashes between security forces and militants in eastern Baghdad’s Sadr City district in the past 24 hours, the two hospitals in the Shi’ite slum said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said on Friday.

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 9:15 a.m. EDT on Friday. BAGHDAD – U.S. forces killed 14 militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Thursday, the military said. Hospitals in Sadr City said they had received four bodies and 51 wounded. Children were among those …

* Iraq govt agrees truce with Sadr bloc – Sadr spokesman * Eight militants killed in Baghdad – U.S. military BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s government has agreed a truce with the movement of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end weeks of fighting in eastern Baghdad between Shi’ite militia and security …

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s government has agreed a truce with the movement of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end weeks of clashes in Baghdad between Shi’ite gunmen and security forces, a spokesman for the cleric said on Saturday.

KABUL (AFP) – Two foreign soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Friday, military forces said, while more than a dozen Taliban-linked rebels were killed in a separate battle involving air strikes.

As of Friday, May 9, 2008, at least 427 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 3 at 10 a.m. EDT.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on the international community to take up a fair approach towards Iran’s nuclear issue and create a more conducive climate for Iran to give reassurances on its nuclear program.