TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Bangladeshi Industries Minister Geetiara Safiya Chowdhury voiced her country’s willingness to bolster economic cooperation with Iran, specially through increased contacts between the two countries’ private sector.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Laotian deputy foreign minister voiced his country’s strong support for the current talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior official in the British Foreign Ministry underlined the need for resolving Iran’s nuclear issue through diplomatic means.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here Saturday expressed his condolences to the Turkish people and government over the crash of a plane in that country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon demanded that the UN Security Council end “illegal verification” of Tehran’s nuclear case.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the district of Halshi in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A four day Iran trade fair in the Turkmenistan capital, Ashgabat was organized with the aim to strengthen trade relationship between both the countries.

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish army entered northern Iraq on Saturday to stop a group of between 50 and 60 Kurdish rebels, the army said and added it could step up its “intervention” in the region if this is needed.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc walked out of parliament on Saturday and its leader said he had been placed under house arrest after his son and dozens of members of his entourage were detained.

GAZA (Reuters) – The Israeli army on Saturday killed six Palestinians, including five militants, in two separate incidents in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials and Hamas said.