TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian government finally decided to provide the country’s motorists with non-rationed petrol to give them a free hand in taking family trips during the new year holidays, starting this weekend.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini dismissed any impasse over Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran oil production capacity from western fields will have an increase of 500,000 barrels per day by 2011, a senior Iranian oil company official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The average price of Iran’s heavy crude oil rose by almost $ 38 per barrel year on year, reported the March edition of the OPEC bulletin.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and French archeologists conduct archeogeophysic research in Pasargad to find the borders of the ancient Iranian capital.

GERDEC, Albania (Reuters) – Albanian troops searched through rubble on Sunday for survivors of a huge munitions blast that razed an army base near the capital Tirana and killed at least nine people.

BELGRADE/PRISTINA (Reuters) – The red box of the buttery ‘Plazma’ cookie, one of ex-Yugoslavia’s best-loved snacks, offers a quick introduction to the dilemma of businesses trapped in the political tussle between Serbia and Kosovo.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Afghanistan is ready to launch a “name and shame” campaign against high-level corruption and drug trafficking if it gets international backing, a senior minister and ally of President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is planning to list shares in a $90 billion energy holding company on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX), the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) magazine reported, citing unidentified Iranian sources.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to attend this month’s Arab summit hosted by Syria that is expected to be dominated by the political crisis in Lebanon.