Eurasia Press & News

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India wants Pakistan to hand over 40 people it believes are behind militant attacks and other crimes, India’s foreign minister said on Thursday, but ruled out military action against its neighbor as a solution. “We have given them lists of 40 persons not one, not 20 …

New tactics are emerging in protests over the shooting of a teenager in Greece. In what students say is organised action, a group of about 100 young people surrounded the office of the Mayor of Athens. Elsewhere, demonstrators gathered outside the main prison in the capital and a college building.

Demonstrations against the response of the Greek police have spread well outside the country’s border. In Italy, police blocked off roads around the Greek embassy as protestors tried to gather. The Greek police have been violent and cowardly said demonstrators from the Italian communists and some anarchist parties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Gazprom Neft, Russia’s fifth largest crude oil producer company and the oil arm of gas export monopoly Gazprom, has voiced interest in developing oil fields in southern Iran. Displaying an interest to win the Iranians’ consent on its wholesale participation in developing the fields, Boris Zilbermints, Deputy General …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei reaffirmed that Iran’s nuclear activities are “legal”. “Iranians are working under a legal framework. They have permitted the international (atomic energy) agency to monitor their imported materials,” ElBaradei said in a telephone interview with the London-based Al Hayat …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his congratulations to the Kenyan nation and President Mwai Kibaki on the country’s national day. Also in his message, the Iranian president stressed, “Providing benefits of the two nations is undoubtedly fully dependent on the expansion of ties in all areas.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday. During the two-day visit, Mottaki and senior Belarusian officials are to review avenues to bolster bilateral ties and discuss regional and international developments. The Iranian minister is slated to attend meetings with Belarusian …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranians will stage anti-Israel rallies on December 12 before Friday prayers. Iranians will gather to voice hatred for Israel and their justice-seeking ideas in support of oppressed Gazans. Gaza, after days of tolerating the Israeli imposed blockade, is paying for its resistance and perseverance and is being hanged …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) formed a troika compromising Iran, Indonesia and Syria to help the besieged people of Gaza. APA Secretary General Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian said that the decision to form the group was made during the third APA meeting in Jakarta late November. He noted the …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski urged Washington to establish ties with Iran saying the move would benefit the US. Brzezinski, a campaign adviser to US president-elect Barack Obama, helped former President Jimmy Carter to open full diplomatic ties with communist China. He stressed that the US …