Eurasia Press & News

KABUL (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was in Afghanistan on Wednesday for talks with President Hamid Karzai and NATO military leaders, the U.N. said. Ban’s unannounced visit comes a day after the U.N. said more than 2,100 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2008, 40 percent more …

MINGORA, Pakistan  – Pakistani Taliban kidnapped 29 paramilitary soldiers and policemen Wednesday, police said, as the militants intensified their campaign against government forces. Security has deteriorated sharply in northwestern areas along the Afghan border as well as the Swat valley, where troops are struggling to stem spreading Taliban influence. In …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s residing representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asqar Soltanieh Wednesday said that the agency’s Director General Mohammed ElBaradei will release his report on Iranian nuclear program within the next one or two weeks. “The Agency’s director general will likely release his report on Iran’s …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Cheap refined petroleum stored in Asia has prompted Iran and Saudi Arabia to purchase and stockpile millions of barrels of gas oil. Iran is storing around 2 million barrels of gas oil on ships, as cheap prices encourage the country to stockpile the fuel even though a mild …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki requested Lebanese officials on Tuesday to form a joint committee to probe into the fate of the four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982. In a message to his Lebanese counterpart Fawzi Sallukh handed over by Iran’s Ambassador in Beirut Mohammad Reza …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran underlined that its first home-made satellite ‘Omid’ (Hope) which was launched on Tuesday has no military purposes. Speaking to reporter during a weekly press conference here in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi brushed aside some countries’ concerns regarding Iran’s new scientific achievement. He …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Islamic Revolution of Iran, in view of Pakistani intellectuals, was as a major event in the world history. “I believe that it (Islamic Revolution) is one of the unique examples in the history,” Mazhar Abbas a senior journalist in Islamabad told the Islamic republic news agency on Tuesday, …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lauded Iran’s latest achievement in launching the home-grown ‘Omid’ satellite on Tuesday. In his response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter, Ayatollah Khamenei appreciated the Iranian scientists and managers’ efforts that led to the successful launch of the …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mashaallah Shakeri Wednesday pointed to the West’s biased stance towards the world of Islam as among the Muslims’ major concerns. Criticizing some Western countries’ stance toward Muslims and linking them to terrorism, Shakeri said in a seminar dubbed as ‘Future Agenda of Change, Role …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Djiboutian Central Bank Chief Mahamoud Haid Djama submitted a message from his country’s president to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Iran’s Vice President Parviz Davoudi. Djama, who is also special envoy of Djiboutian president, called relations between his country and Iran progressive and expressed hope …