Eurasia Press & News

Canadian and Afghan troops pushed into a Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan, fought off fierce counter-attacks and fortified an outpost on Sunday to stay in the area.

With violence levels dropping across the city, Baghdad’s hard-working ambulance drivers now find time to sit and sip tea instead of each rushing to four or five emergency calls a day.

Jordan holds an election on Tuesday set to keep parliament in the hands of tribal, centrist and pro-government deputies under a system that under-represents the cities where the Islamist and liberal opposition do best.

Iranian president and Indonesian vice-president discussed bilateral relations and exchanged views about the oil policies of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member states in a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

Iran’s ambassador to Tirana conferred with Albania’s Central Bank governor about expansion of mutual cooperation and promotion of banking relations.

Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales Ayma stressed his country’s need to industry, capital investment and production, saying that La Paz relies very much on Iran’s aids in the said grounds.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel said he is slated to pay an official visit to Baku next week.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday extended his congratulations to Girma Woldegiorgis and the Ethiopian nation and government on his election as the country’s president.

Iran has the capacity to meet a major part of Asian and European markets’ natural gas need and is prepared to export the commodity to Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, said the Iranian deputy oil minister on Saturday.

Rival Lebanese leaders say they can agree on a new president in a step seen as vital to defusing a deep political crisis but “everything could still go wrong”, Italy’s foreign minister said on Saturday.