Eurasia

Hoping to get Georgia back on its feet after this summer’s armed conflict, international donors have gathered for a major fund-raising conference.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the Mostazafan Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tetneft of Tatarestan, an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish National Security Council on Tuesday decided to form a new structure in order to strengthen the coordination in the fight against terrorism.

TEHRAN (FNA)- World gas powers Iran, Russia and Qatar pledged on Tuesday to strengthen cooperation and Tehran said there was a consensus to form an OPEC-style grouping.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran, Russia and Qatar, which together account for 60 percent of the world’s gas reserves, took their first serious steps toward forming an OPEC-style cartel for natural gas.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Kazakh Transport and Communication Minister Serik Akhmetov signed a cooperation protocol at the end of the 10th meeting of the Kazakh-Iranian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic, science and technical and cultural cooperation.

SILIVRI, Turkey (Reuters) – A shadowy right-wing group went on trial in Turkey on Monday on charges of trying to topple Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – One protester died of gunshot wounds on Monday after clashes with police in eastern Turkey at a demonstration in support of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, hospital sources said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia accused Tbilisi on Monday of breaching a ceasefire deal by firing at its villages from an EU-monitored area, and said its forces would not hesitate to retaliate.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Libya may agree to buy more than $2 billion worth of Russian weapons during a visit by Muammar Gaddafi to Moscow this month, Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing an unidentified source in Russia’s arms industry.