PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected suicide bomber killed 23 people in the compound of a hospital in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as members of a religious minority were holding a protest, police said.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO allies said on Tuesday that regular contacts with Russia were impossible until its troops had been fully withdrawn from Georgia, and said they were “seriously considering” the implications of Moscow’s actions.

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistanis danced in the streets on Monday after beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, with many ordinary people hoping his departure would bring improvement to their lives.

VERKHNY ZARAMAG, Russia (Reuters) – No Russian tanks or armored personnel carriers left Georgia through the only military crossing point back into Russia overnight, a Reuters reporter at the border said on Tuesday morning.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has launched its plan for building more nuclear power plants, a senior nuclear official said here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India’s Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) will sell an additional 210,000 tons of diesel to Iran by December, Managing Director R. Rajamani said Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Tuesday said that a home-built rocket sent into space will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A mild tremor measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted Shahdad suburbs in Iran’s southeastern Province of Kerman on Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The total foreign investment in the National Petrochemical Company of Iran (NPC) in the previous three years has touched a record US$4.5 bln, a senior oil ministry official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran blasted the Western governments for misportraying the scientific breakthrough it has made in launching satellite into orbit.