Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA) – India is optimistic about the 2,775-km Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline and is deeply committed to the multi-billion dollars project, Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said on Thursday.
Read More »Turkish Minister Sees Iran Gas Supplies Resuming Next Week
TEHRAN (FNA) Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Thursday that he expects Iran to resume gas exports by next week, ending a two-week cut forced by cold weather and a consumption crunch in Turkey’s eastern neighbor.
Read More »U.S. envoy sees Iraq momentum on reconciliation
BAGHDAD – Reconciliation between Iraq’s divided communities is gaining momentum at a national level, especially in parliament where lawmakers are working “intensively”, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said on Thursday.
Read More »Palestinian forces enter Jordan under U.S. program
ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank – The first battalion of Palestinian security forces crossed into Jordan on Thursday to begin training under a U.S. program after nearly a year-long delay.
Read More »Turkish government and opposition agree to ease scarf ban
ANKARA – Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party and a key opposition party agreed on Thursday to cooperate to lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities, a move sure to anger the secular elite.
Read More »U.N. Human Rights Council rebukes Israel on Gaza
GENEVA – The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday demanded Israel lift its week-long blockade of Gaza, rebuking the Jewish state for violations in the Palestinian territories for the third time since it was set up in 2006.
Read More »Toll from Wednesday blast in Iraq’s Mosul 36: police
BAGHDAD – The death toll from a blast in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday had risen to 36 from 20, with another 169 people wounded, police said on Thursday.
Read More »Status quo hard to restore on Gaza-Egypt border
CAIRO – The Islamist movement Hamas blew a hole in the Egyptian government’s policy on the border with the Gaza Strip when it knocked down the border wall and let tens of thousands of Palestinians pour into Egypt.
Read More »Three die in raids on Islamist cells: Turkish police
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – A police officer and two militants were killed in fighting during raids on suspected radical Islamist cells in southeast Turkey, police sources said on Thursday.
Read More »Hamas exposes Israeli weakness in Gaza
JERUSALEMÂ – Hamas has exposed Israel’s inability to rein in the Gaza Strip, proving it holds the power to blow open the border and turn a crippling Israeli blockade into a public relations nightmare for the Jewish state.
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