Iran and Nicaragua struck a trade deal which calls for Iran to improve Nicaragua’s infrastructure by constructing a port, houses and industrial sites in exchange for farm products like coffee, meat and bananas.

Iran and Iraq signed an agreement to build pipelines for the transfer of Iraqi crude oil and oil products, Iranian oil ministry said.

KABUL (AFP) – Talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan ended Sunday with calls to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries in their respective tribal regions and to fight the opium trade financing Islamic militants.Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, addressing 700 tribal delegates at the end of a landmark “peace jirga” aimed at defeating the common …