TEHRAN (FNA)- He was not aware of the intricacies involved in the gas pipeline Iranian officials were in India to talk about. But, for 64-year-old Fathollah Abbasi, an artist, a pipeline that would open up exchange of art and culture was something necessary.

Even as a new president taking over the Kremlin reigns, long-standing tensions between Russia and Georgia over breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in Georgia have flared dangerously recent days with each country accusing the other of provocative actions that risk war.

American Muslim civil rights groups have denounced an exercise by US security officials in which a place designated as a ‘mosque’ was stormed in Irving.