TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, heading a delegation, is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to Cairo next week, an Iranian lawmaker said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Tehran voiced preparedness to play a mediating role to assist New Delhi and Islamabad in resolving differences over a multibillion dollar pipeline which would take Iran’s gas to India via Pakistan.

TEHRAN (FNA) An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale jolted the suburbs of Do-Gonbadan and Gachsaran in Iran’s southwestern province of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that the Zionist regime of Israel is not in such conditions that it could pose a threat to other nations.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel expressed regret over the Israeli regime’s continued crimes and brutality against Palestinians, and reminded that the city of Gaza is now experiencing an extensive human catastrophe.

TEHRAN (FNA) Despite sanctions, Iran has made many progresses which could be copied by other countries, Kenya’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s foreign exchange reserves rose 27.4 per cent in the 12-month period ending October 22, reaching the equivalent of more than $70 billion.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran, holder of the world’s second- largest gas reserves, may finalize a gas export pipeline agreement with India “within a few weeks,” the Iranian Oil Ministry’s press agency Shana reported, citing Iran’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance.

SOFIA – Bulgaria’s Sofia airport was temporarily evacuated and flights suspended for over an hour on Sunday, after a bomb threat which proved a hoax, police said.

BANJSKA, Serbia – The plum brandy flowed freely at polling station No. 9 in Banjska, northern Kosovo, as Serbs voted for a new president.