NEW DELHI – India has ended its high alert for forces along the Pakistan border and restored some transport links, officials said on Monday, following disruption in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

LONDON – Pakistan’s political leaders must strive for democracy, which would stand as a lasting memorial to assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) After a wave of freezing cold weather covered a majority of Iranian city, Turkmenistan misused the opportunity and halted gas supplies to Iran to double the price of exports to the Islamic Republic, an informed source in the Oil Ministry said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, extended his congratulations to the Sudanese president, government and nation on the country’s national day.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei urged Iranians to be alert against enemy plots ahead of legislative elections next March.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his congratulations to the Cuban government and nation on the country’s national day.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran welcomed comments by Iraq that it had not repudiated the 32-year-old border treaty between the two Muslim neighbors.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Borzouyeh Petrochemical Facility has exported 670,000 tons of aromatic products since March 21, 2007 fetching Iran $530 million.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani voiced his country’s readiness to cooperate with Egypt on nuclear issues if Cairo asks for help.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday that it will begin operation of the country’s first nuclear power plant in the summer of 2008 using half its 1,000 megawatt capacity.