Reuters, Warsaw
Britain will permanently station 1,000 military personnel in Poland from next year, Poland’s defence minister said late on Thursday, in apparent contradiction of an announcement by Britain about plans for temporary exercises on Polish soil.
On Wednesday, the British Ministry of Defence said London would send nearly 1,000 military personnel to take part in NATO exercises in Poland.
India plane makes emergency landing
AFP, New Delhi
An Indian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the country’s western city of Nagpur on Saturday after a hoax bomb threat, GoAir airline said.
The GoAir plane, carrying 150 passengers, was en route from the eastern city of Bhubaneshwar to Mumbai when authorities received an anonymous call that a bomb had been planted aboard. “Post receiving the bomb threat call, it [the aircraft] was diverted to Nagpur,” GoAir said in an email statement.
Cuba, US officials hold talks
AFP, Havana
Cuban officials say they have held two days of talks with their US counterparts about telecommunications and the Internet. A Foreign Ministry statement says the two sides exchanged views on using the Internet for “economic and social development.”
The Ministry said on Friday that Cuban officials also raised complaints about the US Embargo’s negative impact on island communications.
