Eurasia Press & News

SOUTHERN SHUNEH (AP) — Iran plans to lecture the United States during an upcoming meeting in Baghdad on what it said were mistakes that Washington made in its war on Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday.

BASRA (Reuters) — Britain’s Tony Blair, on his last visit to Iraq as prime minister, said on Saturday he had no regrets about his part in the US-led invasion that removed Saddam Hussein.

GAZA CITY (AFP) — Rival Palestinian factions clinched a new ceasefire deal on Saturday to end a week of violence that has left more than 50 dead as Israel continued to pound targets across Gaza, killing one Palestinian.

DEAD SEA — King Abdullah on Saturday opened the Lower Middle-Income Countries Summit (G-11), calling for a partnership with the   G-8 most industrialised nations and assistance to reduce the debt of developing states.

The US House of Representatives has adopted a measure aimed at weaving closer US and zionist regime’s defenses against ballistic missiles of the type that could be fired by Iran. The measure, part of a 4 billion defense spending bill passed on Thursday, would redirect 5m in defense department funds …

Ali Bekhan: What is the condition of Muslims in Assam? Can you tell us the crimes of  terrorists groups (ULFA and terrorist groups of BJP, VHP, RSS, AGP, AJYCP ) on Assamese Muslims?  

A bomb exploded during Friday prayers today, at the historic mosque of Makkah Masjid in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least five people and injuring 35 others in the third major bombing of a Muslim place of worship in India over the past 12 months.

European Union leaders have met the Russian president with Poland describing relations between the sides as in “crisis”. Vladimir Putin held talks with Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany which holds the rotating EU presidency, near Samara in southern Russia but little was …

Teheran- Iran was determined to normalize ties with Egypt and was just waiting for Cairo’s reply to do so, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday. Mottaki told ILNA news agency that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had already voiced Iran’s willingness to normalize ties but Tehran was waiting for an official …

GAZA, May 19 (Xinhua) — Warring Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah reached a ceasefire deal on Saturday afternoon following Egypt’s successful efforts to bring the two sides together.    The deal calls for removing chokepoints and roadblocks from Gaza City streets by 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT), displacing snipers and gunmen …