Some OPEC members began pumping more crude well ahead of their decision earlier this month to increase output, Iran’s OPEC governor said.

After attending the Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN), in New York, United States, and after his official journey to Bolivia, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will visit Venezuela for a few hours.

Turkey and Iraq have agreed to sign a counterterrorism deal cracking down on separatist Kurdish rebels holed up in bases in northern Iraq, officials said Wednesday.