TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday called for expansion of all-out ties between Tehran and Prague.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described those states seeking to acquire nuclear weapons as “politically backward”.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian educational complex on Tuesday started its operation in Turkmenistan in presence of 120 Iranian and foreign students.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The director of the Iranian National Tax Administration here on Tuesday announced that the value added tax (VAT) law has been enforced as of September 22.

KABUL (Reuters) – Three policemen were killed by a land mine planted by Taliban insurgents in a police post in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, a police official said.

SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) – At a checkpoint consisting of a wooden shack wrapped in steel sheets, five young Iraqis with AK-47 rifles have the task of stopping al Qaeda bombers striking the ancient city of Samarra.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s parliament passed a provincial elections law on Wednesday after months of arguing between Arabs and Kurds, and called for the vote to be held before January 31 next year, legislators said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suspected U.S. pilotless drone has crashed in the northwestern Pakistani region of South Waziristan after a spate of missile attacks by unmanned U.S. aircraft in Pakistan strained ties between the allies.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday in what is expected to be a tense encounter following Moscow’s incursion into Georgia last month.