Eurasia Press & News

China’s state-owned oil firm CNPC has agreed a $3bn (£1.63bn) oil services contract with the government of Iraq.

Police in Israel have arrested an Israeli citizen who entered Gaza with a group of pro-Palestinian activists.

At least one immigrant domestic worker dies each week in Lebanon, by suicide or by accident during a bid to escape, a human rights group reports.

Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled since last year, the Israeli campaign group Peace Now has said.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq’s government of members of Saddam Hussein’s party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Lebanese court has issued an arrest warrant for the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi over the abduction of a senior Shiite leader 30 years ago.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Some 40 agricultural cooperation agreements have been inked between the Islamic Republic of Iran and different foreign countries over the past three years, a senior Iranian official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a message on Wednesday to his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika to condole with him, his nation and government on a series of terrorist attacks which claimed lives of many civilians and injured many others.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran proposed that members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) use their own currencies in trade with each other.