Eurasia

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Turkish energy minister’s trip to Iran to firm up energy deals between the two countries is expected to be delayed by two weeks until mid-September, an energy ministry source said on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Ambassador to Belarus Abdolhamid Fekri presented the National Art Museum of Belarus with a unique Persian carpet and a silver hand-made vase at the end of his mission to Minsk.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) held a session on Tuesday to discuss the ways for promotion of Iran and Serbia bilateral trade ties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkmenistan will decide about the new price of imported gas from Turkmenistan by the end of the current year, Iran’s ambassador to Turkmenistan said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgians flocked to church on Thursday to pray for their country, reeling from military defeat by Russia, and their Orthodox Patriarch asked God to give them back two breakaway provinces backed by Moscow.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Thousands of lawyers blocked roads across Pakistan on Thursday to press the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people.

LONDON (Reuters) – There is no question of launching “all-out war” against Russia, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday, while condemning Moscow’s “invasion” of Georgia.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus traveled across a bridge in the country’s northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said.