BETIT LAHIA, May 17, 2007, (WAFA)- Scores of Israeli tanks and military vehicles moved Thursday afternoon into the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, witnesses and security sources said. Witnesses said that tens of tanks and bulldozers rumbles, amidst intensive fire, into the neighborhood of Atatra in Beit Lahia Town, …

RAMALLAH, May 17, 2007, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas and the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice talked Thursday on a phone call. During their phone call, Abbas briefed Rice about the latest developments in the Palestinian territory and the Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people. President called on the US …

RAMALLAH, May 17, 2007, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas and the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, talked Thursday on a phonecall. During their call, Abbas briefed Ki-moon about the latest developments in the Palestinian territory and the Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people. President called on the UN Secretary-General to work on …

GAZA , May 17, 2007, (WAFA)- At least six citizens were killed and scores others wounded as Israeli warplanes launched six raids on different targets across the Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said. In the city of Rafah, at least two citizens were killed when Israeli gun-ships pounded a vehicle …

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Baghdad’s ambassador to Tehran welcomed the upcoming meeting between Iran and the US over his country, and stressed that Tehran-Washington talks in Baghdad on May 28 would serve the interests of the Iraqi nation.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting with his Niger counterpart Aichatou Mindaoudou voiced the Islamic Republic’s preparedness to host ambassador of that country in Tehran.

Iranian and Azeri foreign ministers agreed to attend a meeting in Tehran in mid June to study the legal status of the Caspian Sea.

According to the trade and economic agreements made by Iran and Pakistan, the two countries are due to increase their present trade volume of $600m to $1b, Pakistan’s consul general said

Tajikistan’s culture minister and governor general of Iran’s northeastern province of Khorassan Razavi in a meeting on Wednesday stressed the need for the preservation of the two countries’ joint identity and utilization of all potentials for the development of both states.