TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned the United States against destabilizing Pakistan.
Read More »Polish martial law was “unavoidable evil”
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, told a court on Thursday his decision in 1981 to declare martial law was a necessary “evil” that averted disaster and prepared the way for democracy.
Read More »More violence in Pakistan; U.N. children to leave
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in Pakistan on Thursday in an attack aimed at a prominent ethnic Pashtun politician, police said.
Read More »Pirates off Somalia get $18-30 million ransoms: report
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business, British think-tank Chatham House said on Thursday.
Read More »Russia hosts German leader to mend ties
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in St Petersburg in Russia, helping to mend ties between the two countries.
Read More »Indian FM to Visit Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee will visit Iran soon to discuss consolidation of bilateral ties and cooperation.
Read More »Russia to use force against Somali pirates
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somali authorities have given Russia’s navy the go-ahead to use force against pirates holding a Ukrainian ship hijacked with 33 tanks on board, a maritime official said on Wednesday.
Read More »Russian children die in school collapse
BELYAYEVKA, Russia (Reuters) – Part of a school building in a provincial Russian town collapsed on Wednesday, killing five children and injuring four, the latest casualties of Russia’s crumbling infrastructure.
Read More »Russian court rules Tsar was victim of repression
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday that Czar Nicholas II be recognized as a victim of Soviet repression, a symbolic victory for monarchists who said it would help draw a line under Russia’s blood-stained past.
Read More »EU monitors enter Georgian buffer zones
NABAKHTEVI, Georgia (Reuters) – EU monitors entered a Russian-controlled buffer zone around Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia for the first time Wednesday in what they said was a smooth start to their peacekeeping operation.
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