October, 2008

• 2 October

  Bus Crash Kills Six in Northwestern Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Six people were killed and 32 injured when a coach crashed in northwest Iran on Thursday.

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• 2 October

  Caspian States Convene in Astrakhan

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Representatives of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan and representatives of international companies convened in the port of Astrakhan, Russia on Thursday to attend the first Intergovernmental Economic Conference of the Caspian littoral states.

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• 2 October

  Syria Calls for Security Cooperation with Lebanon

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem called for security cooperation with neighboring Lebanon to boost the border area in combating arms smuggling.

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• 2 October

  Iran Warns about Global Dependence on US Economy

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran urged the world to reduce dependence on American economy amid concerns that the US financial meltdown may cause a global crisis.

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• 2 October

  Ex-Weapons Hunter Warns US against War with Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA)- The former head of the US weapons-hunting team in Iraq Wednesday cautioned that any attack on Iran will not be successful in halting its nuclear program.

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• 2 October

  Chinese Envoy Confers with Iranian Lawmaker

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Chinese Ambassador to Tehran Xie Xiaoyan conferred with the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s Energy Commission, Mehdi Katouzian, on matters of mutual interest.

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• 2 October

  US warned against destabilizing Pakistan

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned the United States against destabilizing Pakistan.

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• 2 October

  Polish martial law was “unavoidable evil”

  WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, told a court on Thursday his decision in 1981 to declare martial law was a necessary “evil” that averted disaster and prepared the way for democracy.

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• 2 October

  More violence in Pakistan; U.N. children to leave

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in Pakistan on Thursday in an attack aimed at a prominent ethnic Pashtun politician, police said.

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• 2 October

  Pirates off Somalia get $18-30 million ransoms: report

  NAIROBI (Reuters) – Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business, British think-tank Chatham House said on Thursday.

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