The head of the main opposition party in Serbia has resigned after senior colleagues refused to back the country’s efforts to join the EU.

Rescuers in Cairo are continuing their search for survivors after a rockslide crushed dozens of houses in Egypt’s capital, killing at least 31 people.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s oil minister said a continued fall in crude prices would harm producers, the Oil Ministry said on Saturday, three days before OPEC ministers are due to meet in Vienna.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United Nations refugee chief said on Saturday that Iran was committed not to expel more than one million registered Afghan refugees.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing on Saturday in a rare visit to China coinciding with the start of the Paralympic Games.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian authorities have ended the search for Hussein Al-Fadhala, a Kuwaiti who was reported missing in Iran, Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Ali Jannati said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with his visiting Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Beijing on Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran dismissed on Saturday a warning by France’s president that the Islamic Republic was taking a dangerous gamble over its nuclear program because one day its arch-foe Israel could strike.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his congratulations to Asif Ali Zardari on his victory in Pakistan’s presidential poll Saturday and said he hoped ties between the two countries would expand.

JERUSALEM, Sept 5, (Agencies): Ninety thousand Muslims attended the first prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday amid tight security, police said. The Israeli authorities deployed thousands of police but reported no incidents in the Holy City.