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Ankara, Turkey (AHN) – In an effort to help Israel control its continuing blaze, which has spread through northern parts of the country, Turkey has offered to put aside its differences and sent firefighting aircraft.

European nations such as Greece, Spain and Cyprus have also offered their help. The Turkish help came a day after fires raged in the Carmel mountains, killing 40 prison wardens, who were travelling in a bus, while on their way to the Damon Prison.

The local authorities had sent the wardens to evacuate nearly 500 prisoners from the facility. The facility is located near Kibbutz Beit Oren.

The bus in which they were travelling came in way of the fast moving flames, which has now spread to narrow mountain road that links Atlit and Kibbutz Bet Oren.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sought assistance from Europe, Jordan and the United States to help them overcome blaze.

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Quitto, Ecuador (AHN) – Ecuador has offered a residency proposal to Wikileaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange after Sweden refused his residency rights earlier this year. Assange has sparked outrage among world leaders after publishing alleged American diplomatic documents last Sunday.

Ecuadorian Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said his country was open to giving him residency without any problem and without any conditions. “We are going to try and invite him to Ecuador to freely present, not only via the Internet, but also through different public forums, the information and documentation that he has,” he said.

The minister added that Ecuador considers it important to converse as well as listen to him. Wikileaks, through its latest releases, claims that the United States’ diplomats spy on friendly governments and also adds that it has more than 1,600 cables, which are yet to be disclosed. The cables are believed to be originated from the U.S. embassy in Quito.

The minister hoped that the latest offer to Assange would not affect his left-leaning government’s relations with the U.S.

Meanwhile, Australian authorities have started an investigation to find out whether Assange breached any laws in his home country.

Responding at the latest Wikileaks revelations, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez called for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s resignation. “Somebody should study Mrs Clinton’s mental stability,” he said and added, “It’s the least you can do: resign, along with those other delinquents working in the state department.”

Wikileaks has also published a document dated January 2008 about a counter-terrorism cooperation between the U.S. and Brazil – a country, which publicly denies participating in any such operations. According to ex-U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Clifford Sobel, Brazilian police often arrested suspects with terrorism links, but later charged them with customs and drugs offences to distract media’s attention.

The Wikileaks documents also exposed American and British diplomats’ fear about Pakistan’s nuclear material, which if falls into wrong hands, could make world more insecure. The documents warned Pakistan against rapidly constructing its nuclear arsenal despite rising instability in the country. Britain, in September 2009, had expressed deep concerns about Pakistan’s n-arms’ safety and security.

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Kiev, Ukraine (AHN) – Ukraine has offered to help develop energy-rich Venezuela’s oil and gas fields. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych made the offer on Monday during a meeting with visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Kiev.

Talking to reporters after their meeting, Yanukovych, without elaborating, said that the development program would remain the top priority for the two countries. The Ukrainian president further said that Caracas also allowed Kiev to supply Venezuelan oil to Belarus through an oil pipeline. He did not elaborate further.

Diplomats see growing Ukraine-Venezuela energy relations as Kiev’s attempt to create an alternate source for its energy supplies. Ukraine imports a huge percentage of its oil supplies from former Soviet nation Russia and had been famously at odds with it over a gas pricing dispute last January – an incident, which disrupted European gas supplies. Ukraine also receives a portion of its energy demands from Venezuela. The ships carry Venezuelan oil through sea and then transported to Belarus through rail.

Later, Venezuelan President Chavez extended an invitation to Yanukovich to visit Caracas in the beginning of next year.

“Sessions of the bilateral working group will precede the visit by my friend Viktor,” Chavez said on Monday and added that Kiev would host the first session in November, while Caracas in December.

Besides developing cooperation in Ukraine’s gas, oil and energy sector, Chavez also seeks cooperation in the military-industrial complex, the petrochemical industry, agriculture and education.

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