TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran cut its crude sales to North Asia by 26 percent compared with the first quarter, and 21 percent versus a year ago.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India’s Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd will sell an extra 210,000 tons of diesel by December to Iran, which is boosting imports ahead of heavy refinery maintenance works this year, its managing director said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has negotiated around $4.5 billion in joint ventures in the petrochemical and energy sector during the past three years, an oil industry official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Keyhan manager Hossein Shariatmadari examined the Russian-Georgian conflict in an editorial in the Persian daily headlined One piece of news and a lesson to learn.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, displayed earlier this year, is named after a mythical Iranian bird, Simorgh.

Боевые корабли НАТО имеют полное право войти в Черное море и взять под контроль территориальные воды Грузии, если официальный Тбилиси направит соответствующую просьбу в альянс.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday he will use a visit to Russia to expand military ties with Moscow, whose arms sales to the Middle Eastern state have angered Israel and the United States.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces raided the office of a provincial governor and arrested the son of a leading Sunni Arab politician in separate incidents on Tuesday that could stoke sectarian and political tension.

ISSERS, Algeria (Reuters) – A bomb at an Algerian military academy killed 43 people and wounded 45 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, one of the bloodiest incidents in years in the OPEC member state.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO agreed after U.S. pressure on Tuesday to freeze regular contacts with Russia until Moscow had withdrawn its troops from Georgia in line with a peace deal.