Iran temporarily withdrew flyover rights on Tuesday for a plane carrying German chancellor Angela Merkel to India, forcing it to circle over Turkey for almost two hours before restoring the rights.

Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday after his country briefly closed its airspace to chancellor Angela Merkel's plane, foreign minister Guido Westerwelle said.

India and Germany on Tuesday signed four pacts to expand their cooperation in the fields of education and research, as also high-tech areas like nuclear physics as the two countries resolved to push for reforms of the United Nations Security Council.

India and Germany today reviewed the security situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserting that terrorism will have to be fought "on all fronts and not selectively".

Iran on Tuesday blamed a ‘technical problem’ after its airspace was briefly closed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane as she flew to India, delaying her arrival and sparking a diplomatic row.

Germany on Monday became the first major industrialised power to agree an end to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be completed by 2022.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday spoke of India as a large and highly dynamic nation, which presented ‘never-ending possibilities’ for cooperation.

In her weekly Internet video address th

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