Georgia will seek a ruling from the UN’s highest court in the Hague later today ordering Russia to stop what it is claimed are human rights violations against ethnic Georgians in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Serbia’s main political opposition party is in disarray after the resignation of its leader.Tomislav Nikolic stood down after hard-line colleagues in the Serbian Radical Party refused to back his call for closer EU ties.

About 30 Palestinians living in a refugee camp in the desert region along the Iraqi-Syrian border are due to leave for resettlement in Iceland.

The death toll from a rockslide that crushed dozens of houses in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, has reached 43.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Republic has not made any decision on establishing ties with the United States or allowing the US to open a diplomatic outpost in Tehran, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)-Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the country welcomes any measure that will lead to the liberation of occupied lands belonging to Muslims.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Ministry of Industries and Mines said the country produced 19.7 million tons of cement in the first five months of the current Iranian year (started March 20) showing a 21.5-percent growth over the same period in 2007.

TEHRAN (FNA)- As France endeavors to pry Syria away from Iran, Tehran says warm relations between the two countries do not threaten the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday said that Iran is opposed to the request of prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for arresting Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian Industries and Mines Ministry official here on Sunday put the proven mineral reserves of the country at 37 billion tons, while rating the likely mineral reserves at 1.5 times this figure.