Eurasia Press & News

Iran is reviewing a “time out” proposal to stop its uranium enrichment expansion in return for a halt to further UN sanctions, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Iraq is pressing the United States and Iran to hold a second round of talks in Baghdad to follow up a landmark meeting in May, but no date has been set, Iraq’s foreign minister said on Sunday.

Hassan Jmassi was a prisoner for five years in the Gaza Strip under Israeli occupation. Now Hamas are masters, he has risen to the dizzy height of prison governor armed with lavish reforming zeal.

A new United Nations resolution is needed to ensure that Sudan accepts the deployment of a long-awaited hybrid force to Darfur, the head of the African Union commission said Sunday.

Relief workers appealed to the Lebanese army on Sunday for access to hundreds of refugees inside a besieged Palestinian camp, six weeks into a battle between soldiers and Islamists.

The number of civilians killed in Iraq fell sharply in June to the lowest monthly total since a US-backed security clampdown was launched in February, Iraqi government figures showed on Sunday.

US military officials have admitted civilians were among those killed in a US-led air raid on a village in Afghanistan.

KABUL (AFP) – In a small room that looks like a prison cell, files stand in waist-high piles on the floor. An official explains there is no fixed price for a bribe to pick one out and send it moving through the courts.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A local investigation into airstrikes that slammed into Afghan homes where Taliban fighters sought shelter found that 62 insurgents and 45 civilians were killed, two Afghan officials said Sunday.

A team from the UN nuclear watchdog will visit Iran on July 11-13 to discuss how to resolve questions about Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities, an Iranian official was quoted as saying on Saturday.