TEHRAN (FNA)- Six major world powers will hold talks via telephone about the next steps to be taken against Iran at the UN to halt its nuclear program.

Russian stocks fell, extending yesterday’s record drop, as a plan by President Dmitry Medvedev to lend billion to banks wasn’t enough to convince investors the government can halt its worst financial crisis since 1998.

Russia’s military presence in Georgia has unnerved refugees who fled here from Chechnya in the 1990s.   When Russian tanks rolled toward Tbilisi, Georgia, in August, shops closed and streets emptied as residents stayed indoors, glued to their televisions and radios. A hundred miles northeast, in the mountainous enclave of …