The re-election of pro-Western liberal Boris Tadic as president of Serbia on Sunday is expected to soothe investor concerns about the country’s stability ahead of the imminent declaration of independence by its Kosovo province.

Serbia’s pro-Western president Boris Tadic narrowly won re-election on Sunday in a vote seen as a referendum on the country’s future ties with the European Union as it faces the loss of the breakaway province of Kosovo.

Serbia’s pro-Western President Boris Tadic won re-election on Sunday against nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic in a vote that will determine the country’s future ties with the European Union.

BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said on Monday it had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians, including a child, while pursuing al Qaeda fighters south of Baghdad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Visiting Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid al-Hasan met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here in Tehran on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s first space centre was inaugurated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Muscat on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – UN nuclear chief ElBaradei voiced pleasure in the trend of progress made in resolving remaining questions over Iran’s nuclear programs, saying that he would finish the inquiry into Iran’s nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by the IAEA Board of Governors as world powers.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s new Ambassador to Pyongyang Morteza Moradian called for further expansion of relations with North Korea in all fields.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran launched a domestically-built rocket as a test for sending the Islamic republic’s first homemade research satellite into orbit by March next year.