Middle Orient News

SANAA (Reuters) – Reconciliation talks between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas appeared to have stalled on Saturday, as the two sides wrangled over proposals about the future of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian deputy power minister and his visiting Yemeni counterpart in a meeting here in Tehran explored avenues for implementing an agreement held earlier by the two sides on energy cooperation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 4 degrees on the Richter scale jolted the area in the vicinity of the city of Ardal in Iran’s southwestern province of Char-Mahal and Bakhtiari on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has signed a Euro700 million ($1.1 billion) deal for the liquefaction segment of “Iran LNG” plant with Chinese and European consortia.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Celebrated Irish musician and singer Chris De Burgh says media misinformation will not change his opinion about performing in Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki underlined that the Islamic Republic has had no diversion in its drive to access nuclear technology and would not backtrack on its stance even one iota.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Omani King Sultan Qaboos bin Said sent a cable of greetings to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of the Iranian New Year.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that his country grossed USD 70 billion from oil sales over the country’s past solar year, which according to the Iranian calendar runs from March 21st 2007 until March 20th 2008.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has lashed out at French President Nicolas Sarkozy for suggesting France needed a nuclear deterrent to counter the growing missile threat posed by states like the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Arab media have raised US-Iran confrontation alarms, saying the US has a proxy war with Iran going at the tail end of the Bush administration.