Iran offers nuclear help to Nigeria ABUJA, Aug 29 (Reuters): Iran on Thursday offered to share its nuclear technology with fellow OPEC member Nigeria to help revive its dilapidated power sector, considered the biggest hurdle to economic growth in Africa's most populous country. Nigeria welcomed the international help, but was quick to distance itself from the controversy surrounding Iran's nuclear programme. “Nigeria is never entering into any agreement with Iran for any matter that has to do with weapons, but (will agree) to power, which is an urgent need of the Nigerian government,” said Tijjani Kaura, Nigeria's minister of state for foreign affairs. Delegates from the two countries promised to cooperate on nuclear energy, but provided few details on the agreement reached after a four-day meeting in Nigeria's capital Abuja. “We not only consider it (nuclear energy) an Iranian inalienable right, but also Nigeria's right to use this clean source of energy,” said Mohammadali Zeyghami, deputy head of trade relations in Iran's Ministry of Commerce.
Flash floods kill 11 in northern Vietnam HANOI, Aug 29 (Reuters): Eleven people, including three children, were killed by flash floods and landslides that struck northern Vietnam’s Ha Giang province this week, the government said Friday. Rescue workers were searching for bodies of five of the dead after seasonal heavy rains since Tuesday pounded several remote districts in the province. )
Grenade blast wounds seven suspected separatists in Sri Lanka prison COLOMBO, Aug 29 (Reuters): A hand grenade blast inside a prison in eastern Sri Lanka wounded seven prisoners, most of them suspected of being allied with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, police said. “There has been an explosion inside Batticaloa prison. Seven people have been injured and admitted to Batticaloa hospital,” police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekara said. “All of them are Tamils, and most of them are suspected of LTTE (rebel) activities.” The elite Special Task Force police paramilitary unit found a second grenade, he said.
Gustav kills 59 in Caribbean, aims at U.S. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug 29 (Reuters): Tropical Storm Gustav hit Jamaica with near hurricane-force winds Thursday after killing at least 59 people elsewhere in the Caribbean, and was on a path to reach New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico oil fields as potentially a powerful hurricane. As Gustav churned through the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Atlantic Ocean with 40-mph winds and took a track that could threaten the Bahamas and Florida, also next week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The seventh storm of a busy Atlantic hurricane season was 15 miles east-northeast of Kingston, Jamaica, at 05:00 p.m. EDT, the hurricane center said. Its top sustained winds were 70 mph, just short of the 74-mph hurricane threshold. Forecasters said it could become a hurricane by Friday. Gustav barged ashore as a hurricane in Haiti on Tuesday and its driving rains killed at least 59 people there and in neighboring Dominican Republic.
Ten killed in Fiji bus fire SUVA, Aug 29 (AFP): Ten people died and several more were injured when a bus caught fire in the highlands of Fiji's Viti Levu island, reports said Friday. The bus carrying around 50 passengers caught fire near the southwestern town of Sigatoka around 10:30 pm Thursday and the driver lost the vehicle’s control, commercial radio reported. Those killed were unable to escape the flames and several more were admitted to hospital suffering burns. Two of the injured were in a critical condition, a hospital spokesman said. The passengers were travelling to the tourist centre of Nadi in Viti Levu's west, reports said. )
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