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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned, that Iran would "set on fire" Israel and the us navy in the gulf as its first response to any American attack over its nuclear programme.
According to the Fars news agency he said Tel Aviv and the US fleet in the Persian Gulf would be the targets that would be set on fire in Iran’s crushing response. The United States and its top regional ally Israel have never ruled out attacking Iran over its nuclear programme.
There has been concern an attack against Iran could be imminent after it emerged Israel had carried out manoeuvres in Greece that were effectively practice runs for a potential strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
However diplomatic efforts are also continuing.
Iran has responded to an offer from world powers to end the nuclear crisis and diplomats are analysing what is said to be a complex answer from Tehran. Several Iranian officials last week sounded optimistic notes about the package that contrasted with the hard line of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sparking speculation that the authorities were split on the issue.
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A bloc of Indian left-wing and communist parties have announced to pull out of the country's coalition government in protest against a nuclear energy deal with the United States.
Briefing media after a meeting of the communist parties in New Delhi, the CPM secretary Mr. Prakash Karat said the prime minister's announcement that his government will be going to the IAEA very soon, has left no option before them but to withdraw support. Mr. Karat said it was decided in the meeting of the committee on the deal last year that the government will make available the text of the safeguard agreement negotiated with the IAEA but till date the same has not been provided to the left parties.
The left wing parties believe that allowing un inspections of the country's civil nuclear programme as demanded by us would harm India’s strategic weapons programme.
The bloc who have fifty nine seats in the parliament insists that the deal would bind India too closely to the United States. They say the deal runs counter to the India’s status as a figure head in the non-aligned movement. The decision, however, is not expected to cause the collapse of the congress-led government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who last week managed to secure the support of a regional party.
The congress party meanwhile criticized the left for being insensitive in deciding the timing of withdrawal. The decision came at a time when the prime minister is in Japan to attend a meeting of the group of eight industralised nations.
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Eight of the world's most powerful leaders called for efforts to cool rising oil prices, warning that soaring fuel and food costs were a threat to world economic growth.
The group of eight summit in Toyako, Japan said it was ready to take action to reduce global growth from runaway energy costs, but stopped short of announcing concrete steps on the second day of an annual summit.
The G8 comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States said the world economy was facing uncertainty although they remained positive about the long-term resilience of their economies.
They expressed strong concern about oil and food prices, which they said pose a serious challenge to stable growth worldwide. The leaders also agreed to bring major oil producers and consumers together in a new forum to discuss energy security. The communique by the G8 leaders puts the focus of fighting global warming on U.N.-led talks to create a new framework for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The U.N. Talks are set to conclude in Copenhagen in December 2009. Meanwhile, anti-G8 protesters marched through Toyoura, calling for abolition of the group. An American protestor said poverty, global warming, hunger crisis, and the wars can never be stopped unless G8 is abolished.
Protesters held banners and puppets mocking the G8 leaders.
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For the first time since 1917, the Perito Moreno glacier in the southern argentine region of Patagonia is collapsing during wintertime.
The rupture that began on 4th July the first registered since March, 2006.The Perito Moreno glacier that is part of the Magallanes peninsula is one of the 47 glaciers that extends over the southern arm of lake Argentina.
Along with the last rupture in 2006, the prior two, in 1988 and 2004,occurred during February and March, summer months in Argentina. The glacier is 3 kilometer wide, extends roughly 200 cubic kilometres below the sea, and measures on average 70 meters above the level of the lake Argentina in which it's located.
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In Occupied Kashmir, the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir liberation front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, condemning the destruction in jenab sahib shrine at Soura in Srinagar due to mysterious fire on Saturday, has demanded an immediate and independent probe into the incident.
According to Kashmir media service. Muhammad Yasin Malik along with religious scholars was addressing a public gathering at the shrine, today. He pointed out that Indian intelligence agencies were continuously engaged in desecrating and destroying shrines and mosques in Kashmir to demoralize people by hurting their religious sentiments. However, Yasin Malik added, that such acts would not deter Kashmiris from pursuing their right to self-determination. Meanwhile, the executive director of Kashmir centre London, Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl and the APHC leader, Nayeem Ahmed khan in their separate statements condemned the attack by Indian troops on journalists while performing their professional duties on Saturday at Soura. An Indian trooper was killed by his colleague in Kupwara and another trooper was injured in an attack in Pulwama. The personnel of central reserve police force barged into the houses of civilians in Karan Nagar area of Srinagar and mercilessly beat up the inmates.
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