Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Omani King Sultan Qaboos bin Said sent a cable of greetings to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of the Iranian New Year.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that his country grossed USD 70 billion from oil sales over the country’s past solar year, which according to the Iranian calendar runs from March 21st 2007 until March 20th 2008.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has lashed out at French President Nicolas Sarkozy for suggesting France needed a nuclear deterrent to counter the growing missile threat posed by states like the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Arab media have raised US-Iran confrontation alarms, saying the US has a proxy war with Iran going at the tail end of the Bush administration.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Italy have signed an MoU in archeological research to enable Italian archeologists help with Iran’s Burnt City project.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India will soon start negotiations with Iran and Pakistan on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline. The negotiations will resume after the formation of the new government in Pakistan, said Murli Deora, New Delhi’s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas.

Two soldiers with the US-led coalition were killed in southern Afghanistan when their vehicle struck a mine planted on a busy road, the force announced.

LONDON, March 22 (Xinhua) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to inform British Prime Minister Gordon Brown next week of France’s plan to send some 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan, reported the Times on Saturday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – About one thousand people protested in central Amsterdam on Saturday against right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders and the imminent release of his film expected to be critical of the Koran.

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia has proposed a plan for the “functional division of Serbs and Kosovo Albanians” in Kosovo, Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic was quoted on Saturday as saying.