MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Three Islamist militants were killed by their own explosives while planting a bomb at a girls’ school in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley on Wednesday, police said.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) – In a video sold in Baghdad’s souks, a group of women draped in cartridge belts and clutching pistols and rifles explained why they had taken up arms against the U.S. military in Iraq.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The National Iranian Oil Company is to propose 15 project packs to the global market for investment.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Good relations between Iran and Azerbaijan have been conducive to the development of partnership and cooperation between the two sides’ border officials, the chief of the State Border Service of the Azerbaijan Republic said.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s state purchasing agency has extended the bidding deadline in an international tender to buy 100,000 tons of Kazakhstan-origin milling wheat to August 9, from August 2, European traders said.

TEHRAN (FNA) – An amount of 100mln dollars has been allocated for the development of Bandar Imam petrochemical infrastructures this year (Iranian year started 20 March 2008), an official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The fifth exhibition of petrochemical, paint and industrial coating materials kicked off work in Isfahan on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is slated to arrive here in Tehran on Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey have worked out the details, including the pricing, of a deal to produce natural gas in the Islamic Republic and export it to Turkey, senior Iranian and Turkish officials said on Tuesday.