BAQUBA, Iraq  – Iraqi authorities imposed a curfew on the capital of restive Diyala province on Tuesday after the governor survived a suicide attack that left the bomber’s body parts scattered across the street.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni tribesmen abducted a French-Algerian man on Tuesday to press for the release of jailed relatives, a provincial government source said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s ruling coalition said on Tuesday the army would not intervene to support embattled President Pervez Musharraf, whom the government says it will impeach for years of alleged misrule.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Thirteen people were killed and 10 wounded on Tuesday in a bomb attack, claimed by the Taliban, on an air force bus in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi declared on Tuesday Iran’s top nuclear negotiator’s letter to the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was not Iran’s answer to the 5+1 countries’ package of incentives.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran president’s adviser Morteza Tamadon emphasized Tehran believes that there is nothing as a “stalemate for the nuclear talks” with the West.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iran’s defense minister Brigadier General Mustafa Mohammad Najar and the Algerian president Abdul- Aziz Bouteflika held a meeting on Monday.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Algeria’s president Abdul- Aziz Bouteflika and foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred economy, industry, energy and major international issues on Monday.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Saleh will travel to Iran to hold three days of discussions on Tehran-Baghdad bilateral relations on Wednesday, reported an Iranian official.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iran’s Prosecutor General Qorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi declared on Tuesday that making decisions over Imam Mousa Sadr’s fate has been pretty vital for Iran over recent 3 decades.