TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Oil prices gained overnight and were slightly higher Friday, as the US government lobbied international powers not to back down on OPEC’s second-largest producer, Iran, over its nuclear program.

The meaning of Sunday’s Russian parliamentary elections is not to be found in the results. There was never any doubt that Vladimir Putin’s party would take an overwhelming majority. United Russia, with the president at the top of its list, enjoyed every imaginable advantage, legal and illegal. Opposition groups, including …

Russia accused a US think-tank on Friday of spreading anti-Russian propaganda by hosting a debate on violence in the turbulent Ingushetia region neighbouring Chechnya.