[post] The United States has expressed gratitude to Syria for preventing an attack on the US embassy in Damascus in which 3 gunmen were killed and the fourth man was captured. The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington appreciated the way the Syrians had reacted to help / ensure the safety of the embassy staff. But later the White House spokesman Tony Snow called on Damascus to work with the US in what President Bush calls "His war on terror".

Syrian police force did the job and they were professional about it. Now the next step is for Syria to play constructive role in war on terror ,stop our own terrorist groups...uh...stop being..uh..an agent in formating terror and work with us to fight against terrorist as Libya has done. And that's the next step for Syria. For his part, the Syrian ambassador to the United States I.M blamed US's policies in the Middle East for fail in extremism and terrorism .

The Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan says Israel and the Islamic militant group Hezbollah have largely complied with the organiztion's call to end the fighting that errupted in southern Lebanon in July. Mr Annan made the comments and report to the UN Security Council on the implementation of the UN resolution aimed stopping the violent conflict. Reporting from New York with UN has its headquarters here is M.W.

Mr. Annan says a tragic 34-day-conflict to string part of Middle East back into the instablility to prevail for decades. And in its aftermath much work is to be done, he says a start has been made but many other steps are needed. And a prevent resurgence of violence and bloodshed, the underline courses of conflict in the region must be addressed. Mr. Annan singles out the Israeli raided eastern Lebanon on August 19th. But he says on the whole ground violations have not been of an offensive and hostile character and / Israel and Hizbollah seem to determine to uphold the agreement. He calls for an end to Israeli overflights in Lebanese airspace and says it remains convince of the disarming of Hizbollah should take place through a political process that will restore the authority of the Lebanese government in its own territory.

The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised the Iraqi government full support in restoring security to Iraq. Speaking after talks in Tehran with the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Iranian leader said Iraq security was indivisible from that of Iran. Mr. Al-Maliki described his visit to Iran as a turning point in relations between the two countries .

The Europian Union special envoy to Sudan says he is seeing at first tent the effects on civilians of the government military offensive against rebels in Darfur . The envoy P.A reviewed the children had been badly injured in air raids on viliages and he said he's seen a cargo plane loading bombs for a new attack.

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Brazil and India have signed a series of mulit-milion-dollar bilateral economic cords. The aim was to improve cooperation in the areas of technology and the development of to the alternative energy sources between the two countries. Here is our Americas editor I.S.

The agreements which were signed at the start of an official visit to Brazil by the Indian prime minister M.W.S come a day head of three countries summit in Brasilia between India, Brazil and South Africa aimed at improving political and economic links between what are three of the world's largest emerging economies. For his part of Brazilian President, L.N.T said the strengthing of ties between the three countries forms / part of a broader vision to creat a more just economic world order.

The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf has warned that the Taliban now threatens the stability of Afghanistan more than Al-Qaeda. Speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels, Mr. Musharraf said the Taliban were more dangerous because unlike Al-Qaeda the organization had popular support in Afghanistan.

The central of gravity of terrorism has shifted from Al-Qaeda to Taliban. This is a new element which has emerged. A more dangerous element because it has routined the people--Al Qaeda did not have routined the people.

The head of the second largest computer manufacturer in the world Hewlett Packard is stepping down after a secret inquiring into fellow directors backfired, the affair involved investigations by private detectives into the source of bordroom leaks to the media. B said that the private detectives went beyond their mandate.

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