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Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday headed on a tour of Brazil and Argentina to counter archfoe Iran’s influence in Latin America, the second such trip in months by a senior cultured pearl jewelry Israeli official. The elder statesman was to arrive in Brasilia early on Tuesday for the first visit to Brazil by an Israeli president since 1966. On Sunday, he will continue to Argentina in the first such visit in 20 years. The trip comes just two weeks before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Israel’s archfoe Iran, goes to Brazil. Peres’ visit aims to reinforce “strategic cooperation” between Israel and Brazil, as well as with Argentina, his spokesperson Ayelet Frish told AFP. “The president will discuss Iranian infiltration in South America and explain to his hosts that Israel has nothing against the Iranian people, but against Ahmadinejad, a fanatical leader who is more interested in enriching uranium than in the well-being of his people,” the game machines spokesperson said. Iraq to resume Baghdad-Paris flights BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s national airline plans to resume direct flights between Baghdad and Paris after 20 years, the government said on Monday, prompted by demand following a drop in violence levels and a rise in investor interest. State-owned Iraqi Airways will sign an agreement with French authorities in mid-November to resume weekly flights between Baghdad and Paris, Iraq’s Cabinet said in a statement. More airlines are opening routes wheat pearl into Iraq after a fall in violence over the past 18 months, despite the hazards of air travel into a country where bombings and attacks remain common. Flights from Baghdad to other Middle Eastern destinations have jumped in recent years, and airlines have slowly begun opening up direct routes to European destinations.

The attempted hijacking took place about 400 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles and 1,000 nautical miles east of the Somali capital Mogadishu, EU Navfor said. “This was the freshwater pearl jewelry longest range of a pirate attack off the Somali coast ever,” it said in a statement. Mwangura said the tanker had caught fire after being hit by automatic bullets and a rocket-propelled grenade, but there were no casualties and the captain had steered his ship to safety. “There have pearl earrings been 12 pirate events in this area in the last 30 days. There is a high probability of attacks in this area for at least the next 24-48 hours. Weather conditions are expected to remain favourable for piracy…through this period,” he said. Seasonal monsoon rains brought a lull in hijackings but the pirates have stepped up their attacks in recent weeks and now hold at least 11 vessels and more than 200 crew. A deal to free the pearl jewelry 36 crew members of Spanish fishing vessel Alkrana held hostage since October 2 could be on the cards, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Monday

We understand the weapons belong to the Somali government,” Farah, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite telephone. Another gang member, Hassan, said the weapons ship was well-known to pearl jewelry them: “It has been circling in our ocean for a long time, bringing illegal weapons to massacre Somalis,” he said. Somalia has been torn by 18 years of civil war and hardline Islamist insurgents linked to Al Qaeda are fighting to topple President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed’s fragile UN-backed government. Some 19,000 civilians have died since the start of 2007 and more wheat pearl than 1.5 million have been driven from their homes, triggering one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Somalia’s pirates have no overt links to the country’s hardline rebels but some southern pirate ports are in insurgent-held areas, and experts say there may be cooperation between some sea gangs and some rebels. In the latest pirate attack, the European Union naval force EU Navfor game machines said gunmen opened fire on a Hong Kong-flagged, 330 metre, 160,000 tonne crude oil tanker, the BW Lion

Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a UN arms embargo, maritime experts said on Monday. Also on Monday, the game machines gunmen launched their longest range hijack attempt yet – opening fire on a giant Hong Kong-flagged crude oil tanker 1,000 nautical miles east of Mogadishu. Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme told Reuters he believed the weapons ship was using a fake name. He said it had been hijacked wheat pearlon Sunday and was now held near the northern Somali town of Garacad. “She is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the UN arms embargo on Somalia,” Mwangura said. Maritime sources say the craft is believed to be pearl jewelry carrying light arms and ammunition, as well as rockets and rocket-propelled grenades.

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