An informed source in Iran's presidential office has rejected as 'false reports' of grenade attack on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, local English channel Press TV reported on Wednesday. Several foreign and local media reports said earlier that a grenade exploded near the convoy of Ahmadinejad during his provincial visit to the western city of Hamedan on Wednesday while the president escaped unhurt. (Iran-Ahmadinejad- Attack) MOSCOW -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on countries to refrain from providing weapons to Georgia. 'We continue to insist on imposing a comprehensive international embargo on supplying Georgia primarily with offensive weapons and military hardware,' Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said in a statement. (Russia-Georgia- Weapons) MOSCOW -- The death toll from forest fires raging across central Russia has risen to at least 48, as some 400 new blazes broke out over the past 24 hours, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday. 'Eight bodies were found under the debris of burnt houses -- three in the Moscow region, two in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and one each in the Voronezh, Ryazan and Ivanovo regions,' the ministry was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying. (Russia- Fires-Deaths) ISLAMABAD -- At least five people including a chief army commander were killed and another 10 were injured in a suicide bomb blast which went off Wednesday afternoon near a military area in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. According to police sources, two teenage suicide bombers struck the vehicle of Frontier Constabulary Commandant Sifwat Ghayoor when he was leaving office from home in Saddar cantonment area of Peshawar. (Pakistan-Suicide Bombing) RAIPUR, India -- At least one rebel was killed and four policemen missing in a massive encounter which has been going on since mid- day Wednesday between Indian security personnel and extreme left- wing Naxal rebels in the eastern state Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said. The encounter has been on near the forests of Gumiapal and Kutram, 450 kilometers from the state capital Raipur. (India- Rebel-Fighting) CAIRO -- Egypt accused on Wednesday the Palestinian factions in Gaza, of firing the rockets which hit Aqaba and Eilat, killing a Jordanian. 'Palestinian factions from the Gaza Strip were behind the launch of five rockets on Aqaba and Eilat on Monday,' state-run MENA news agency quoted an official Egyptian source as saying. (Egypt-Palestinians-Rocket Attacks) 