TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- First Vice President Parviz Davoodi called for the immediate release of the two Iranian diplomats who have been arrested by the US military troops while on an official visit to Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraq’s Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said that his government has launched all-out efforts to set free the two Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped by the US military troops in Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Lebanon’s outgoing ambassador to Tehran met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has the right to pursue nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, opposing UN sanctions against the Middle East nation for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Oil prices were on the rise again yesterday, amid concern at Iran’s reaction to tough United Nations sanctions aimed at tempering the country’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The International Atomic Energy Agency has called for negotiation and mutual accommodation to achieve a long-term solution to the issue of Iran’s nuclear program

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will be hanged within 30 days, an appeal court judge said Tuesday, after confirming the former strongman’s sentence for crimes against humanity.

A STRING OF car bombs and other blasts killed at least 54 Iraqis on Tuesday, including 17 outside Baghdad’s most venerated Sunni mosque, while US troops battled Shiite gunmen in Baghdad.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israelis are puzzling over the prospect of peace with Syria after their two foreign intelligence agencies gave dramatically different assessments of recent diplomatic overtures from Damascus.

MOGADISHU (AP) — Somalia government and Ethiopian troops advanced towards the country’s capital Tuesday as Islamist fighters retreated, bloodied by a week of artillery and mortar attacks but promising a “new phase” in the war — a chilling pronouncement from a movement that has threatened suicide attacks.