TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Venezuela’s Ambassador to Tehran Arturo Gallegos Ramirez viewed victory of Hugo Chavez in presidential elections as a gravestone laid on the measures of Bush administration in Latin America.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed Iran’s resolve to continue with the production of nuclear fuel to satiate all the consumption needs of the country’s power plants.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stressed that the ideals of the Islamic Revolution have undoubtedly had influence in widening public participation in the presidential elections of that country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Iranian parliament voted to unite the presidential elections with the upcoming parliamentary ones.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Tuesday Tehran would not bow to pressure to give up its right to nuclear technology.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Officials from six world powers meet in Paris on Tuesday seeking progress towards ending a deadlock that has held up agreement over a sanctions resolution on Iran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Visiting Azeri Defense Industry Minister Yavar Jamalov here on Monday paid tribute to the Father of the Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Malaysia are set to form a joint commission for cooperation on women and family affairs, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s Women’s Fraction said.

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Thirteen US troops died in Iraq over the weekend including four killed when a military helicopter made an “emergency landing” in the restive west of the country, the US military said Monday.

UNITED NATIONS — US Ambassador John Bolton has pushed President George W. Bush’s global agenda with a lawyer’s drive during his 16 months at the United Nations — not a diplomat’s finesse which has upset some ambassadors and UN officials.