TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian government has drawn up plans to abolish costly subsidies on fuel and water prices but will compensate people with cash payments.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) is looking to acquire a stake in Iran’s national phone operator, the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Venezuela’s Minister of Light Industries and Trade William Contreras held a meeting Monday with a delegation from Iran’s Cooperatives Ministry.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun on Monday said the outcome of his recent visit to Iran would emerge in six months.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that the Armed Forces are the stronghold of the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is prepared to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Kazakh Transport and Communication Minister Serik Akhmetov signed a cooperation protocol at the end of the 10th meeting of the Kazakh-Iranian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic, science and technical and cultural cooperation.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police have arrested nine Jews suspected of recent assaults against Arabs in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, including several firebombings that set some homes ablaze, a spokesman said Monday.

KABUL (Reuters) – Two Taliban gunmen on a motorcycle killed a British woman aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, accusing her of spreading Christian propaganda.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan and NATO-led troops have killed 34 Taliban insurgents in two days of fighting in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s spokesman said on Monday.