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Teams of divers and helicopters with night vision cameras are continuing to search for survivors after a ferry carrying around 150 people sank off the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The roll-on, roll-off vessel, which also had 75 vehicles on board, had left the port of Bandirma and was heading …

Russian soldiers are continuing their pull out from Georgia in line with an EU-brokered ceasefire. Under the terms of the agreement, Moscow has until today to withdraw, particularly from five checkpoints around the Black Sea port of Poti.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A military solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear issue is unacceptable and there is no need at the moment for new sanctions, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Biblio-Globus book store in Moscow will establish a section providing books about Iran in Persian and Russian in near future.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday conferred with Azeri President Elham Aliyev on ways to expand mutual relations and reviewed the regional developments.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran-Russia parliamentary friendship group Mehdi Sanaee said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to broaden ties with Russia.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The fate of Iranian hostages in Pakistan and Afghanistan is to be pursued by a delegation from the Iranian Interior Ministry.

It has emerged that an adviser to the Russian president was among the 88 people who died when an Aeroflot plane crashed in Siberia. General Gennady Troshev had worked for both Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin. Debris from the 16-year-old Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 covered part of Russia’s main East-West railway …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israel has urged Russia to turn a blind eye to its military deals with Georgia and to halt its sale of advanced weapons to Iran and Syria.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a political delegation, arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Saturday to discuss the latest developments in the Caucasus region.