Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish warplanes launched intensive bombing raids on Kurdish targets in northern Iraq overnight but there were no reports of any casualties, a Kurdish spokesman said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Friday that the consignment of heat insulation material, destined to Bushehr nuclear power plant from Russia, has entered Iranian soil after being stranded by Azerbaijan recently.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country and Yemen have entered a new chapter in relations between the two countries.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has not issued an ultimatum to Total and Royal Dutch Shell over the development of its giant South Pars gas field, Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country and Russia could play a key role in “shaping new international relations” through promoting ties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Major powers agreed on Friday to make a new offer of incentives to Iran to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

KABUL (AFP) – Pakistan should stop “terrorists” from using its soil to attack Afghanistan if it makes deals with Taliban militants along the troubled border, the Afghan defence ministry said.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.

Russia’s recent moves and statements concerning Georgia and its breakaway regions are raising tensions and “undermining a fragile situation”, a Nato spokesman has said.Speaking in Brussels, James Appathurai said: “Nato is watching with concern and wants to see all parties avoid the kind of rhetoric which is escalating tensions.”

According to news sources in Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, one of murtad officers a member of “Ministry of Internal Affairs” gang was shot dead in the village of Ali-Yurt last Wednesday. Local puppet sources said that “the policeman died of negligence in handling of weapon”.