Eurasia Press & News

AFP – Fresh attacks in Afghanistan killed 19 people, including six soldiers in a roadside bombing, officials said Wednesday, as the Taliban stepped up its campaign against the government. The bomb struck an Afghan army vehicle on Wednesday in Paktika province, which is on the border with Pakistan, army commander …

AFP – Afghanistan will use all means to stop Pakistan erecting a fence on their border to stop the movement of Taliban militants, the foreign ministry said. The ministry also denied Afghanistan had apologised for an incident last week in which its troops tore down part of the new fence …

Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Sheybani said the Zionist regime had threatened to bomb the embassy complex and kidnap Iranian diplomats in Beirut.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel expressed regret over the European Union’s blind obedience to the United States, saying that it is far from EU’s dignity to follow the US.

Proposed by Iranian foreign minister and approved by president, Hamid Qomi was assigned as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

North Ossetia’s prime minister voiced his republic’s enthusiasm for the expansion of relations with Iran.

Iran’s Semnan province and Ivory Coast endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the expansion of economic cooperation.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Cuba’s First Vice-President Raul Castro Ruz stressed the need for the deepening of economic cooperation between the two countries.

Ambassador of Ivory Coast to the Islamic Republic of Iran said that Iran-Khodro Diesel Company is due to export 120 different road construction machineries to his country.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is due to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday to make sure of Iran’s participation in the upcoming summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.