Eurasia Press & News
ANKARA/BAKU (Reuters) – An explosion on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline on Tuesday night in eastern Turkey has halted the oil flow along the one million barrels per day pipeline, a senior Turkish Energy Ministry official said.
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August, 2008
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7 August
Russia mulls arms in Belarus to counter U.S. shield
MINSK (Reuters) – Russia may consider deploying strategic bombers or station tactical missiles in its close ally Belarus as a counter-measure to a planned U.S. missile shield in Europe, Moscow’s envoy to Minsk said on Wednesday.
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7 August
Russia says Georgian jets overflew rebel region
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia accused Georgia of sending warplanes into a Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia overnight, an allegation swiftly denied by Tbilisi.
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7 August
Landslide kills 7 Pakistani villagers, 8 missing
GILGIT, Pakistan (Reuters) – A landslide triggered by torrential rain killed seven people and soldiers were searching for eight others buried under the rubble of their homes in a mountain village in northern Pakistan, police said on Wednesday.
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7 August
German-Afghan believed kidnapped in Kabul
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German-Afghan citizen has gone missing in Kabul and German officials believe he has been kidnapped, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said on Wednesday.
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7 August
Blast kills four in southwest Pakistani town
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a town in Pakistan’s insurgency racked province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, killing four people, police said.
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7 August
Pakistan puts move to rein in spies on ice
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s 4-month-old civilian government has suspended a decree issued last month to put the military’s powerful and controversial spy agency under Interior Ministry control, according to an official statement.
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7 August
School bombers killed in Pakistan’s Swat valley
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Three Islamist militants were killed by their own explosives while planting a bomb at a girls’ school in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley on Wednesday, police said.
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7 August
Al Qaeda says it was behind Algeria bombing: website
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.
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7 August
Iraq’s female bombers rise as Qaeda’s men fall
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) – In a video sold in Baghdad’s souks, a group of women draped in cartridge belts and clutching pistols and rifles explained why they had taken up arms against the U.S. military in Iraq.
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