TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- China’s Sinopec Corp has agreed to buy from National Iranian Oil Company about 160,000 barrels per day of crude under a one-year pact for 2008, nearly tripling the current level, a trading source said on Thursday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran said Thursday that talks with the UN nuclear watchdog on investigating traces of uranium found at a Tehran university were constructive.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Pakistan will sign two crucial agreements on the multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project that also involves India within two months.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been invited to perform the hajj pilgrimage by Saudi King Abdullah, in another first for the Islamic republic’s chief executive, Iran’s ambassador to Riyadh announced on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani here Wednesday described Iran-US differences as strategic, stressing that the problems of the two arch foes may not be resolved simply through sending signals.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Ahmadinejad’s advisor said that the required arrangements have been taken at Iran’s embassy in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, to issue an entry visa for the US film director, Oliver Stone, who plans to make a documentary about the Iranian president.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- China’s incoming ambassador to Tehran met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continued talks in Tehran on Wednesday to remove possible ambiguities in Iran’s nuclear programs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Kiasar in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Industrial gases giant Air Liquide is thought to be considering re-establishing a presence in Iran, dependent on a number of factors and practicalities that need to be ironed-out first.