Senior al Qaeda planner Abu Obeida al Masri, identified by authorities as a key suspect in the 2005 London transit bombings and a foiled 2006 plot to blow up U.S.-bound commercial airliners, has died, U.S. counterterrorism officials said yesterday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India is keen to partner the proposed multi-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project and has promised to resist “all external pressures on the issue”, Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta condemned sabotage of Tehran-Kabul ties.