U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that he condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the use of force against demonstrators in Syria by the government.
"This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now," he said in a statement, Xinhua reported.
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The head of a provincial commerce department in Iran says the Islamic Republic's share in Afghanistan's $6 billion of annual import has reached $1.2 billion, PRESS TV reported.
Speaking at the meeting of a special working group on trade and tourism on Thursday, head of South Khorasan Commercial Organization, Nader Mirshekar, emphasized on the need to further boost exports to Afghanistan at a time when Iran's share in the neighboring country's annual import has increased, IRNA reported.
Mirshekar placed a high premium on the significant role that South Khorasan province can play in export of goods to Afghanistan, which shares
Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday expressed concern over Nepal's ongoing peace process after talks with Nepalese leaders on the first day of a three-day visit to Kathmandu, dpa reported
Politicians in the Himalayan state are at odds over the drafting of a new constitution, due to be completed by May 28, and over key points of the peace process, including how to reintegrate former Maoist combatants, who fought a decade-long civil war that ended in 2006.
"I discussed the issue of peace and constitution with the Prime Minister (Jhalanath Khanal)," Krishna said. "The main responsibility for these
Pakistan's interior minister is to arrive in the Iranian capital of Tehran to deliver a written message from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, PRESS TV reported.
Rehman Malik will arrive in Tehran at the helm of a high-ranking Pakistani delegation on Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
During his trip, the Pakistani interior minister will also hold talks with senior Iranian officials to discuss issues of mutual interest.
The visit comes as Tehran and Islamabad enjoy high political and economic relations.
Iran and Pakistan along with Turkey established the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
Forty eight Afghan mosque leaders arrived in Amman Monday as guests of the Jordanian armed forces to attend workshops on Islamic tolerance and moderation, the official Petra news agency reported.
The week-long lecture series cover dialogue among religions in a bid to enable the Afghan preachers, who came from several provinces in Afghanistan, to "promulgate Islam's message of tolerance and moderation in their communities", dpa quoted the report as saying.
Hundreds of Jordanian armed forces personnel are involved in medical and humanitarian activities in Afghanistan.
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European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Sunday started her four-day tour to the Gulf region for a cooperative meeting and "better insights into the political situation" in the region, Xinhua reported.
Ashton is expected to co-chair the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Ministerial Meeting in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, according to an EU news release.She travels first to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, where she will meet Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and GCC Secretary-general Abdel-Aziz Zayani. She will also hold talks with a group of influential Saudi women.
On Tuesday, Ashton will be in Doha, Qatar, where
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that in the first trilateral meeting of Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan Republic foreign ministers, the three sides crossed the borders, IRNA reported.
Speaking to reporters at the end of the one-day meeting, Davutoglu said Orumeyeh meeting was the beginning of joint meetings of foreign ministers of the three countries which will be an important point in the history of the three countries relations.
He evaluated the meeting 'positive' and added that the meeting was an important and historical step in expansion of ties between the three countries.
Davutoglu said the three sides decided on
Walter Breuning, who age 114 was considered the world's oldest man, has died in the US state of Montana, dpa reported.
The retired railroad worker, who was among a small group of people to live in three centuries, died Thursday in a hospital in the city of Great Falls, the Great Falls Tribune reported.
Breuning, who was just five months short of his 115th birthday, was considered by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group to be the second-oldest living person in the world, and the oldest living man. He was 26 days younger than Besse Cooper of Georgia who is
Azerbaijan, Baku, April 14 / Trend K.Zarbaliyeva /
Azerbaijan is working to develop an e-system of the real estate registration, Azerbaijani Parliamentary Legal Policy and State Building Committee head Ali Huseynli told Trend.
Stressing the existence of problems in the real estate registration, Huseynli said illicit interests play a role in issuing the documents by the State Real Estate Registry Service.
Huseynli said problems in this area decreased following the President’s appropriate orders. All the processes relating to the immovable property registration must be in e-form, he added.
"We need to make sure that all processes in this area are
Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited a city hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan Thursday to meet with disaster victims, dpa reported.
The couple travelled to Asahi city, Chiba prefecture, 80 kilometres east of Tokyo, to offer their condolences and encouragement to those afflicted, the Imperial Household Agency said.
In Asahi, 13 people were killed and 12 were injured by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that rocked north-eastern Japan.
The imperial couple were visiting a disaster-hit area for the first time since the disaster, which killed more than 13,300 people and left some
