September, 2008

• 5 September

  Iran’s Gas Cheapest Energy Supply for India

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkmenistan seeks a price for the gas to be sold to India via TAPI pipeline three times higher than Iran’s price of gas via the Iran-Pakistani, India (IPI) pipeline.

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• 5 September

  Oil Prices Slide under $105

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Oil prices fell below $105 Friday on concerns over slowing energy demand and a strong US currency, while the market awaited next week’s OPEC meeting on crude output levels, traders said.

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• 5 September

  Suspected U.S. drone attack kills 5 in Pakistan

  MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least five people were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, in a stepped up campaign against militants near the Afghan border.

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• 5 September

  Rice set for historic Libya visit, meeting Gaddafi

  LISBON (Reuters) – Condoleezza Rice hailed as “historic” her trip to Libya later on Friday, the first by a U.S. secretary of state to the former pariah nation in 55 years and a visit aimed at erasing decades of enmity.

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• 5 September

  U.S. says 2 civilians among 8 dead in Afghan strike

  HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Two civilians were among eight people killed in a U.S.-led coalition operation in western Afghanistan on Friday, the U.S. military said, the latest in a mounting toll of civilian deaths that has outraged Afghans.

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• 5 September

  Slain Afghan judge had received death threats

  KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s top anti-drug judge had received phone calls and text messages before he was murdered warning him to acquit a suspected drug dealer or face death, a spokesman for the anti-drugs tribunal said on Friday.

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• 5 September

  Hezbollah says it shot helicopter

  The leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon has acknowledged that his group was responsible for the shooting down last week of a Lebanese army helicopter.

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• 5 September

  Heritage plan for Iraqi marshes

  The United Nations has launched an initiative to have the marshlands of southern Iraq listed as a world heritage site.

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• 5 September

  US aid ship arrives at Russian-patrolled Georgian port

  A third US naval ship has been delivering humanitarian aid to Georgia. However, unlike the two other American vessels, the USS Mount Whitney was offloading supplies at the Russian-patrolled port of Poti. Earlier US shipments steered clear of a potential showdown with the Russians by diverting to Batumi.

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• 5 September

  Iran Sues Warehouse in Baltimore

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Defense Ministry is suing a Baltimore warehousing company in federal court, claiming a floor collapse three years ago damaged $50 million worth of military equipment that has been held in limbo by the US government since the late 1970s.

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