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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey have worked out the details, including the pricing, of a deal to produce natural gas in the Islamic Republic and export it to Turkey, senior Iranian and Turkish officials said on Tuesday.
Read More »Germany Pressed to Axe Iran Deal
TEHRAN (FNA) – Pressure is mounting on Germany to cancel its approval of a major business deal between a German company and Iran.
Read More »U.N. probe criticizes March Kosovo raid: diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A United Nations investigation into the March storming of a courthouse by U.N. and NATO troops in northern Kosovo criticizes the force for rushing in, diplomats briefed on its contents said on Friday.
Read More »Attacks kill 5 NATO soldiers and 4 Afghan civilians
KABUL (Reuters) – Two improvised explosive devices (IED) killed five soldiers from NATO-led forces and one civilian in Afghanistan on Friday, the NATO force said in a statement, and a young suicide bomber killed three civilians in the south.
Read More »Turkish dormitory collapse kills 17 schoolgirls
BALCILAR, Turkey (Reuters) – A gas explosion killed at least 17 girls and injured 27 others, wrecking a dormitory at a school in southern Turkey on Friday, a military rescue official said.
Read More »Medvedev starts corruption battle with new plan
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Calling graft a threat to Russia’s security, President Dmitry Medvedev released on Friday his national plan to fight red tape and corruption. The plan, published on the official Web site www.kremlin.ru, calls for sweeping legal and social reform that, fail or flourish, analysts say could define Medvedev’s …
Read More »Montenegro charges 8 over murder of 23 Albanians
PODGORICA (Reuters) – Montenegro has charged eight former soldiers over their role in the 1999 killing of 23 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo, a lawyer of the victims’ families said on Friday.
Read More »Karadzic sees no chance of fair trial
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said it is unimaginable he could get a fair trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal because the world’s media have already branded him a war criminal.
Read More »Iran, EU to Discuss N. Issue on Monday
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will speak to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday, an Iranian official said.
Read More »Pakistani forces kill 10 Islamist militants in Swat
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces killed 10 Islamist militants and destroyed several hideouts in a clash in the troubled northwestern Swat valley on Sunday, the military said.
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