TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Commerce Minister Mehdi Ghazanfari and Ecuadorian Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Integration Miguel Eduardo Egas Pena called for the expansion of economic ties in a meeting here on Monday. Expressing satisfaction over Iran-Ecuador political relations, Ghazanfari said, “The ways to develop current economic relations should …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Speaker of Bahraini parliament Khalifa Bin Ahmad al-Dhahrani said Monday that Manama wants Iran-UAE dialogue to promote mutual ties. Al-Dhahrani told Iran’s Ambassador to Bahrain Hossein Amir Abdollahian, “Dialogue is a good principle in nature; we should respect good relations between Muslim and neighboring states, that have age-old …

osovo’s Interior Minister Zenun Pajaziti says Serb officers will return to Kosovo’s Police force now that the European Union law-and-order mission, EULEX, has deployed. Ethnic Serb police officers left their posts in protest against Kosovo’s declaration of independence in February of this year. However, Pajaziti believes that they will all …

“The European Union is not neutral on Kosovo as 22 member states have made clear their position on Kosovo,” argues Soren Jessen Petersen, the former chief of UN Mission in Kosovo. “It is clear that Kosovo is independent and this fact cannot be changed. Kosovo is in the phase of …

Enis Imamovic, the spokesman for the Bosniak Ticket for European Sandzak, says party leader and minister without portfolio, Sulejman Ugljanin is a man of his word and will provide pledged aid to his home town. He told a press conference that Ugljanin would focus all his assistance on improving the …

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel released 224 prisoners in a goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, prompting joyous family reunions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Families sang and danced as prison buses rolled up full of newly freed men, shouting and waving from the …

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police fired teargas at small groups of protesters who threw stones and firebombs in central Athens Monday in a second week of anti-government demonstrations since a policeman shot dead a teen-ager. Youths outside Athens’ main court and central police station clashed with riot police, while acts …

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq is failing to give criminal suspects fair trials and abuse of prisoners appears common ahead of the transfer of thousands of detainees from U.S. prison camps to Iraqi control, a human rights group said on Monday. Human Rights Watch said prisoners had to wait months and …

GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas leaders said on Sunday they did not expect to extend a six-month ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip when it expires this week, although it remained unclear whether this would mean an immediate surge in violence. Israel, which has traded fire with Palestinian Islamists in …

MOSUL (Reuters) – Gunmen killed seven people from a single family, members of the minority Yazidi sect, when they stormed into their home in northern Iraq on Monday, police said. Police said a woman, her husband, and the couple’s adult children were shot dead in the attack, which took place …