National Iranian Central Oil Company (NICOC) Managing Director Alireza Zeighami yesterday announced that the development of 18 new oil and gas fields would be put out to international tender in the first phase.
Read More »Iran Agrees to New Talks with US on Iraq
Iran said on Tuesday it has agreed to a new round of talks with United States on improving security in Iraq.
Read More »Ahmadinejad, Chavez predict fall of US ’empire’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on a visit to Tehran on Monday that the “empire of the dollar is crashing,” one day after his country and anti-US ally
Read More »UNIFIL chief stresses ties with Southerners
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Force commander Major General Claudio Graziano said on Monday that Southerners and peacekeepers
Read More »Kouchner chides Lebanese politicians for failure to reach consensus
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned Lebanon’s deadlocked political factions that they must either agree on a consensus president before
Read More »Olmert acts to bolster Abbas before meeting
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought wide Arab support on Monday for a U.S.-led peace conference by agreeing to release 441 Palestinian prisoners and reaffirming a pledge not to build new Jewish settlements.
Read More »Blocked Lebanon deal angers France’s Kouchner
France’s foreign minister blamed unnamed parties on Monday for blocking a deal between feuding Lebanese leaders to agree on a compromise candidate for president, two days before a key parliamentary vote.
Read More »Musharraf going to Saudi, Sharif denies plan to meet
Exiled Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday he would not meet President Pervez Musharraf, the army general who deposed him eight years ago, when Musharraf visits Saudi Arabia this week.
Read More »Jordanian Islamists seek to win Palestinian vote
Behind a poster of Jerusalem’s Muslim shrines, Islamist activist Omar Zaib tells a crowd of refugees at a Jordanian election rally that Israel is doomed — if not by this generation of jihadists then the next.
Read More »Kidnapped Iraqi reporter freed, says no ransom paid
An Iraqi TV journalist who was kidnapped last week in a busy Baghdad neighborhood said he was released unharmed before dawn on Monday.
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