TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his congratulations to Pakistani government and nation on re-election of Pervez Musharraf as the country’s president for a third term.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Omani commander said here Sunday night that his country’s army has decided to remove its weak points and solve the existing problems through cooperation with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian and Omani armed forces are decisive to bolster military and intelligence cooperation, chief of the joint staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili arrived in Moscow on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s in-situ liquid hydrocarbon increased by 210 million barrels in late last August when compared to the figure of 2005.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Turnout in Russia’s parliamentary election is likely to be more than 60 percent, higher than last time, the electoral commission said on Sunday.

MOROZOVKA, Russia (Reuters) – Voters looked on in amazement when a group of Russia’s most beautiful women turned up to cast their votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A handful of foreign election observers scrambled to monitor voting across Russia’s vast territory on Sunday, with the chief of one mission admitting there was little his team could do.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday played down expectations for a peace deal with the Palestinians before the end of 2008 as laid out at a U.S.-sponsored peace conference last week.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former world chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov accused Russian authorities of “raping the whole electoral system” with numerous instances of irregularities in Sunday’s parliamentary election.