TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has not issued an ultimatum to Total and Royal Dutch Shell over the development of its giant South Pars gas field, Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country and Russia could play a key role in “shaping new international relations” through promoting ties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Major powers agreed on Friday to make a new offer of incentives to Iran to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

KABUL (AFP) – Pakistan should stop “terrorists” from using its soil to attack Afghanistan if it makes deals with Taliban militants along the troubled border, the Afghan defence ministry said.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.

Russia’s recent moves and statements concerning Georgia and its breakaway regions are raising tensions and “undermining a fragile situation”, a Nato spokesman has said.Speaking in Brussels, James Appathurai said: “Nato is watching with concern and wants to see all parties avoid the kind of rhetoric which is escalating tensions.”

According to news sources in Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, one of murtad officers a member of “Ministry of Internal Affairs” gang was shot dead in the village of Ali-Yurt last Wednesday. Local puppet sources said that “the policeman died of negligence in handling of weapon”.

The AlKavkaz website has reported that on 23 Rabi Al-Akhar 1429 (29 April 2008), sabotage unit of the Mujahideen of Dargo sector (commander Amir Osman) of the Eastern Front of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate (commander Amir Aslambek), ambushed armed gang of Kadyrovans near the village of Canni-Vedeno.

Occupation sources in Wilayah Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate report that the ringleader of a gang named “Interior Ministry of Dagestan” A. Magomedtagirov has said that the intelligence got information on possible attacks of Mujahideen in several cities: Shamilkala (former Makhachkala), Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, Kizlyar, TemirHanShura (formerly Buinaksk), Kaspiysk, and Derbent.

Georgia’s breakaway regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying its forces for an attack. Georgia denied it had any plans to attack the separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, but the Russian move marks a new escalation in a crisis between the two ex-Soviet neighbors that has already alarmed …