Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is set to meet EU foreign policy head Javier Solana later this month in a new bid to resolve the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has called for further strengthening trade ties and economic partnership with Iran and Turkey.

Iran’s central bank governor on Sunday dismissed US sanctions on Iranian banks as “psychological warfare” and said they would not prevent Tehran from finding other routes for meeting its banking needs.

В результате атаки афганского Шахида в северной афганской провинции Кундуз уничтожены два БТРа германских оккупационных войск и несколько солдат. Шахид привел в действие мощное взрывное устройство в тот момент, когда колонна оккупантов двигалась по дороге в городке Хан-Абад. Об этом заявило командование талибов.

Как сообщают оккупационные источники, в Шамилькале (бывшая Махачкала) в понедельник утром были блокированы два дома, в которых по утверждению местных муртадов, находятся моджахеды.

KC source reported that a group of Mujahideen up to 100 fighters entered village of Kurchali on the night of November 11. By blocking the main entrances to the village and setting up mobile check points, a group of Mujahideen

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday inaugurated a mausoleum built over Yasser Arafat’s grave and vowed to continue on his iconic predecessor’s path in seeking statehood.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday postponed Lebanon’s presidential election for a third time to allow rival political leaders a final chance to resolve a months-old deadlock.

Former Sunni insurgents asked the US to stay away, then ambushed members of Al Qaeda in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday.

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema held talks Saturday in Libya on a joint treaty to settle the question of compensation for Italy’s colonisation of the country.