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. | A climate change protest camp is being set up outside Heathrow airport, two days earlier than had been expected. Thousands of protesters are expected this week at the Camp for Climate Action, which opposes the expansion of London’s biggest airport. About 150 campaigners have begun building a camp less than a kilometre outside the airport’s perimeter. |
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. | Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, leader of Pakistan’s largest opposition party, said on Saturday she hoped to return home by mid-October for elections in which she may ally with President Pervez Musharraf.
But Bhutto said any deal with the president depended on him taking-confidence building steps by the end of August, such as lifting a ban on her serving a third term as prime minister. |
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. | President Bush says he appreciates President Sarkozy’s involvement in freeing Bulgarian nurses held in Libya over charges of spreading AIDS. He says he is impressed with the French leader’s vision and candor. “The good thing about President Sarkozy is you know where he stands. He’ll tell you exactly what he thinks and I hope he’d say the same thing about me,” he said.
French First Lady Cecilia Sarkozy |
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. | Agim Ceku, Kosovo’s prime minister, said: “I am working for the recognition of the independence of Kosovo, in its current borders … this year.”
The three envoys met leaders of the 90 per cent ethnic Albanian majority in the Kosovan capital Pristina after arriving from Belgrade, the Serbian capital. |
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. | It concluded that Pakistani officers provided armed escorts, hospitality and food to gold smugglers in east Congo.
The confidential report recommended the case be referred to Islamabad for appropriate action against the troops. An earlier UN report, published in July after an 18-month inquiry, found only one man involved in the illicit trade. |
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. | Two spokesmen for the movement said the women were ill and had been freed as a “gesture of goodwill” after face-to-face talks with a South Korean delegation ended on Saturday.
“Our leadership council decided to free unconditionally and as a gesture of goodwill two women hostages who are sick,” Yousuf Ahmadi said. |
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. | Russia has offered a compromise solution, which would allow the US to share use of a radar installation in Azerbaijan.
Mr Putin described the new early-warning station - at Lekhtusi, 50km north of St Petersburg - as “the first step in the implementation of a major early-warning programme up to the year 2015″. |
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. | K. Ibrahim told that Azerbaijan has already started to clarify the issue and if the problem is not resolved, approprriate measures will be taken.
According to our information, the team composition of which was announced two days ago has not yet left for the UK due to the inability to obtain visas at the UK Embassy. UK Embassy rejected to issue visas to our hockey players without any grounded reason. |