Eurasia Press & News

A suicide truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji on Tuesday, the police and U.S. military said, in the deadliest attack in Iraq for two weeks.

Israel is considering easing criteria for freeing Palestinian prisoners, a move one Israeli official said on Monday could pave the way for the release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran expects its first nuclear power plant will produce electricity at full capacity in around a year after passing a “critical stage” with the delivery of fuel from Russia, a top official said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has increased the monthly gasoline quota for private drivers to 120 liters from 100 liters from Saturday in a bid to end scarcity and check black marketeering, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Hamid Reza Asefi said yesterday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Pakistan with their navies positioned in the Indian ocean rim are yet to give their nod for participation in Indian Navy’s novel initiative to host a regional interactive conclave in February next year.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Front Page Microfinance, a local limited cooperative savings and Credit Society will receive a $1m (Shs1.73bn) development boost from the Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ten days before the start of the primaries, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is a hot item. He is leading the polls among Republican candidates in Iowa – the first state to cast its votes – and is increasingly gaining in the state that will follow, …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran intends to issue an international tender for the construction of 19 nuclear power plants.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Armenia is not ruling out extending the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Europe, the Armenian energy minister said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russia will have a good chance of participation in the construction of new nuclear power plants in Iran if it completes the Bushehr nuclear power plant on time, a top Iranian official said on Monday.