Turkish and Qatari officials said a military strike on Iran would be disastrous for the region and dismissed suggestions of tighter sanctions to rein in its nuclear programme, saying renewed negotiations with Tehran were the only option.
The Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators issued a statement Saturday highlighting the importance of the current uprising in Egypt and warning that any delays in further talks on the issue could be “detrimental” to regional stability.
Though the Egyptian situation is not on the formal program of the annual
Munich Security Conference, the world’s top officials said Friday escalating demonstrations in Egypt increasingly threaten stability in the Middle East.
A suspected bomb on board an Air Berlin flight from Namibia was a security test to gauge aviation security measures, the German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Friday.
The International Monetary Fund has approved an $847.1 million loan to Pakistan as part of an emergency loan to help bolster the impoverished nation’s economic stabilization program.
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