UNITED NATIONS: Offering its wholehearted support to flood-stricken Pakistan, India has vowed to do all it can to assist the country in relief efforts, apart from the US dollars five million in aid already extended by it.
BUSHEHR (IRAN): Iran’s first nuclear power plant was opened Saturday by Iranian and Russian nuclear officials in the southern port city of Bushehr after a delay of almost three decades.
MOSCOW: Russian security forces on Saturday claimed a major success in their anti-terror drive as they gunned down a top Islamist militant said to be the mastermind of the March suicide bombings on Moscow metro.
LONDON: A couple in Germany were in for a rude shock when they came to check on their home that had undergone renovation. A goat had not only moved into their third-floor apartment, it had also chewed up and ripped their curtains.
UNITED NATIONS: Amid global concerns that terrorists may take advantage of the devastating floods in Pakistan, its Foreign Minister, Mr Shah Mahmood Qureshi has assured the international community that Islamabad will not allow this to happen.
WASHINGTON: The US has told Israel that it would take Iran a year or longer to build nuclear weapons, thus dimming the prospects of a pre-emptive strike on Tehran’s nuclear arsenal.
LONDON: Britain has warned Libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of Lockerbie bomber’s release from a Scottish jail today, saying any celebration of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s freedom will be “offensive and deeply insensitive to the victims’ families”.
COLOMBO: Seeking to give a further boost to bilateral friendly ties, India will set up two new consulates in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna and Hambantota cities.
DELHI/ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan dithering over accepting India’s offer of $5 million aid for flood victims, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday renewed the aid offer when he spoke to his Pakistani counterpart, Mr Yousaf Raza Gilani and conveyed his sorrow over the tragedy.