Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a meeting with the participants at the ECO Interior Ministers’ meeting here on Wednesday, stressed the need for the independent countries to reinvigorate their regional cooperation to get rid of hegemonic and unilateralist powers.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran starts staging its extensive maneuvers in the Persian Gulf with the launch of its long-range Shahab series missiles on Thursday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said security concerns are among the main root causes of ECO’s lack of progress in establishing a positive regional convergence.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Expediency Council Chairman Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that radical prejudice has unfortunately turned into the root cause of some incidents in Iraq. Speaking in a meeting with a number of leaders of Iraqi Sunni and Shiite nomads here on Tuesday, Rafsanjani, noted the role of …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization’s 11 member states kicked off work here on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Foreign Minister assured that the United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Iran won’t be approved by the member states.

A far-right faction opposed to relinquishing occupied land joined Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s governing coalition on Monday, a partnership likely to complicate any peace efforts with the Palestinians.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The killings of two Americans took the monthly US death toll in Iraq on Monday to over 100 for the first time in nearly two years, just a week before elections that could cost President George W. Bush’s Republicans control of Congress.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani helicopter gunships destroyed a religious school allegedly fronting as an Al Qaeda training camp on Monday, killing up to 80 people in the country’s deadliest-ever military operation targeting suspected “terrorists”.

KUWAIT (AFP) — The emir of Kuwait Monday urged MPs and the government to cooperate in fighting corruption as he opened the new term of parliament where the opposition has gained control following June elections.