TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Minister of Training and Education, Mahmoud Farshidi stressed that his country does not accept “scientific apartheid” and does not recognize the so-called “banned sciences”.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Indian deputy oil minister said that Tehran, New Delhi and Islamabad have decided to continue their negotiations about a multi-billion dollar project for the export of Iran’s natural gas to India via Pakistan.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria can solve may regional problems, particularly in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, in case they move in harmony.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Bombers killed 65 people, many of them young women students, at a Baghdad university Tuesday on one of the city’s bloodiest days in weeks.

RAMALLAH —  Both Israeli and Syrian officials yesterday denied reports in the Israeli media that the two countries had reached the outlines of a peace agreement in secret talks over the past two years.

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and eight Arab counterparts called on Iran Tuesday not to meddle in Iraq’s affairs after discussing Washington’s plan to quell sectarian violence in the country, Kuwait’s foreign minister said.

MOGADISHU (AP) — The first African peacekeepers to help the government assert its authority in Somalia are expected by the end of January, the prime minister said Tuesday.

AMMAN — US President George W. Bush’s plan to bring peace to Iraq, already facing resistance in Congress, also has highlighted differences between Washington and Baghdad over how to deal with Syria and Iran.

CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia has asked Arab leaders to convene their annual summit in the kingdom’s capital, reversing an earlier decision not to host it, the Arab League chief said Monday.

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Hundreds of Sunni Arabs paid their respects Tuesday to former aides of Saddam Hussein convicted of crimes against humanity and buried near the former Iraqi leader’s own grave after a gruesome hanging.