Eurasia Press & News

The second meeting of the sports ministers of Asian countries will be held in Iran in 2008.

Political advisor to the former Iraqi prime minister said plots to overthrow Nuri al-Maliki’s government are doomed to failure as the Iraqi administration is now enjoying stability more than ever.

Despite West’s sanctions against the country, Iranian experts of the South Pars Technical Repair and Maintenance Company (TMC) succeeded in repairing two turbo-generators of the second refinery of the South Pars Oil and Gas Field (phases 2 and 3).

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to the junior national volleyball team appreciated them for winning the 2007 world championship title.

For the first time during the past 28 years, Osnabruck Philharmonic Orchestra will hold a concert on 29and 30th of August in Tehran.

Iranian Oil Ministry caretaker Gholam Hossein Nozari said that there are indications of a large gas field in the area surrounding Sefid Zakhour, in Fars province.

Iran vaulted into the volleyball history books to become the new 2007 Boy’s Youth World Champion for the first time ever, with a electrifying 3-2 (21-25, 25-22, 26-24, 31-29, 15-7) victory over China in 130 minutes, in an spectacular all Asian final at the Gimnasio de Usos Multiples in the …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers — including six Westerners — in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the U.S. invasion, officials said Monday. Reports from officials Monday and Tuesday indicated 29 militants also were …

WANA, Pakistan (AFP) – Pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday released 19 Pakistani soldiers who were abducted earlier this month in the rugged tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said.Armed militants kidnapped 16 Pakistani soldiers from the South Waziristan tribal district on August 9 and seized another four security officials including a colonel …

KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan’s opium production has doubled in two years, reaching a new high in 2007, with the country almost the exclusive supplier of the world’s deadliest drug, the United Nations announced Monday. Production was estimated to have jumped 34 percent this year over last with the number of …