BELGRADE – Serbs face a choice between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favoring the West in a presidential election run-off next month.

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his favored successor Dmitry Medvedev could take turns to run Russia for another quarter of a century, a senior Kremlin ally said in an interview published on Monday.

KABUL – Afghanistan’s government, largely reliant on foreign help for its security and economy, has called for the launch of another donors’ meeting to garner more international aid.

KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said British politician Paddy Ashdown cannot become U.N. envoy to Afghanistan unless the world body clarifies his role, state newspapers said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani condemned Israeli crimes in Gaza, and underlined the need for serious measures to help the oppressed people of Palestine against the Zionist regime.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s new ambassador to Manila Ali Mojtaba Rouzbahani submitted his credentials to the Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a meeting on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, heading a delegation, is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to Cairo next week, an Iranian lawmaker said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Tehran voiced preparedness to play a mediating role to assist New Delhi and Islamabad in resolving differences over a multibillion dollar pipeline which would take Iran’s gas to India via Pakistan.

TEHRAN (FNA) An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale jolted the suburbs of Do-Gonbadan and Gachsaran in Iran’s southwestern province of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that the Zionist regime of Israel is not in such conditions that it could pose a threat to other nations.