It is unlikely that Iran, being a sovereign state, will yield to the latest deadline of the United States pressurizing Iran to answer an international nuclear incentives offer or face new sanctions.

 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran has always welcomed just negotiations.

The Norwegian StatoilHydro company has not officially announced that it would withdraw from activities in an Iranian oil field, Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said on Saturday.

The managing director of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) says foreign firms are active in its gas and petrochemical projects.

The US insists on a ‘weekend’ deadline for NPT signatory Iran to reply to an incentives package for suspending its nuclear program.

Patriarhia Rusa a facut apel la gasirea unor noi modali­tati de participare a Rusiei si fostelor republici sovietice, cu populatie majoritar orto­doxa, la procesele de inte­grare in structurile UE, informeaza Interfax. Demersurile bisericii conduse de Patriarhul Alexei al II-lea, ofiter al fostelor servicii secrete sovietice KGB, vin dupa o recenta …

Noile realitati geopolitice impun Moscovei mai multe aspecte cu care guvernantii de la Kremlin nu sunt de acord. Printre acestea se numara probleme legate de instalarea scutului antiracheta american pe teritoriul european, bazele militare americane de la Marea Neagra din Bulgaria si Romania, eventuala aderare la NATO a Georgiei si …

GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas security forces arrested Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s top Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip on Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the rival factions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel’s peace efforts with Syria should continue, without preconditions, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert steps down, a candidate to succeed him said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Calling graft a threat to Russia’s security, President Dmitry Medvedev released on Friday his national plan to fight red tape and corruption.