Coalition hit areas in Garyan, Mizdah: Libyan TV

TUNIS: Western coalition air strikes hit civilian and military areas in the towns of Garyan and Mizdah, Libyan television said on Monday, quoting a military official.

Iran”s Ahmadinejad survives reported attack-Lebanese TV

BEIRUT: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack on his convoy in Iran onWednesday, Lebanon”s Future television quoted the Iranian presidency as saying.

Al Arabiya television said an attacker had thrown a bomb at Ahmadinejad”s convoy before being detained. Both television reports said some people had been wounded in the attack.

Medvedev calls for new laws to prevent terrorism

MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Tuesday for new laws to prevent terrorism following a deadly double suicide bomb attack in the Moscow metro.

“We need to focus our attention on certain aspects of improving legislation aimed at preventing terrorist acts, including on the efficient work of various agencies,” Medvedev said in comments broadcast on state television.

At least 39 people were killed Monday in two suicide bomb attacks in Moscow metro stations.

UAE president brother”s body found in Morocco

DUBAI: The body of the managing director of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), among the world”s biggest sovereign funds, has been found after a glider plane crash in Morocco, Al Arabiya television said on Tuesday.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan is also a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family.

Plane Crash lands in Iran, 46 Injured

TEHRAN: An Iranian passenger plane caught fire on Sunday as it was landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad, injuring at least 46 people on board, state television reported.

Iranian officials told local news networks that the rear end of the Russian-built Tupolev 154 plane belonging to Taban Airline caught fire as the aircraft was landing at Mashhad airport.

“The plane went off the runaway upon landing and part of its rear end broke away,” state television quoted as saying Javad Erfanian, head of disaster management of Khorasan Razavi province of which Mashhad is the capital.

“Forty-six people have been injured, but most of them are not serious.”

The English language state-owned television said the plane, traveling from Abadan located in southwest Iran to Mashhad, had 157 passengers on board. Erfanian said the plane also had 13 crew members on board.

Reza Jafarzadeh, spokesman of Iranian civil aviation, said the plane had left Abadan on Saturday, but bad weather in Mashhad led to the aircraft landing in the central city of Isfahan for the night before it took off again for Mashhad early Sunday.

“The captain had a critical patient on board and so had do an emergency landing (in Mashhad) which is why the aircraft met with an accident,” he was quoted as saying on the website of state television.

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Baghdad Explosions:63 Killed And 105 Injured

TrendPK.com Baghdad Explosions:63 Killed And 105 Injured:At least 63 people have been killed and 105  injured after three car bombs exploded across Baghdad in quick succession, Iraqi state television reported today. Iraqiya television said the blasts happened at a market in central Baghdad, near the labour ministry, in north-eastern Baghdad, and at another

TrendPK.com Baghdad Explosions:63 Killed And 105 Injured:At least 63 people have been killed and 105  injured after three car bombs exploded across Baghdad in quick succession, Iraqi state television reported today.
Iraqiya television said the blasts happened at a market in central Baghdad, near the labour ministry, in north-eastern Baghdad, and at another [...]