Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran put a dummy satellite into orbit on a home-grown rocket for the first time on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai has been awarded the prestigious “Knights Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic”.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The 8th International Exhibition of Environment started work here in Tehran on Saturday.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s failure to establish a coherent system of government more than a decade after its ethnic war has had some strange consequences — among them a dire lack of prison space for Sarajevo’s small-time criminals.

GORI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russian troops with armored cars mounted checkpoints on a major Georgian highway on Monday, ahead of a promised withdrawal from parts of the country under an international ceasefire plan.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Nuclear-armed Pakistan’s beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation on Monday in the face of an impending impeachment motion by the ruling coalition government.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into the gate of the main U.S. military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine civilians and wounding 13, Afghan and U.S. officials said.

Russian forces begin pulling out of Georgia today. That is the promise, and the Georgians want international monitors to keep an eye on things. No firm deadline for an end to military operations has been given, and the international community has been reminding Moscow that it is watching, led by …

Aid is finally starting to get through to Gori, now that Russian troops look to be loosening their grip on the Georgian town. The Red Cross and Red Crescent are delivering much-needed supplies to the war-shattered area.. And a UN aid convoy has managed to enter Gori for the first …

Russia’s president has said its forces will begin pulling out of Georgia from Monday afternoon, local time. Dmitri Medvedev made that promise in a phone call with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country currently holds the presidency of the European Union. Sarkozy said that if Russia failed to withdraw …