Iran

Baghdad, May 25, IRNA - A member of Iran's negotiation delegation in Baghdad has ruled out the AFP report that Saeed Jalili, the Secretary of Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSCI), had met the US envoy. The Iranian, who wanted not to be named, told IRNA that the SNSCI Secretary and the US delegation have had no meeting and talks.

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE EDINBURGH: Scottish nationalists launched an official "yes" campaign for independence today ahead of a likely 2014 referendum on severing the more than 300-year-old union with England. First Minister Alex Salmond said the semi-autonomous region should run its own foreign, economic and defence policies, and promised that he would try to get one million Scots to sign a declaration of support.

By SAPA REUTERS (File image) Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that it has detected in Iran traces of higher-grade uranium than Tehran had said it was enriching, but that the Iranians had said it may be down to a technical error. "The results of analysis of environmental samples ...

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press Updated: 9:57 a.m. on Friday, May 25, 2012 BEIRUT - A group of Lebanese Shiites who were kidnapped in Syria were released in good health Friday, three days after Syrian rebels abducted the men as they returned from a religious pilgrimage, officials said. The kidnappings fueled fears that Lebanon is getting drawn into the bloody conflict in neighboring Syria.

May 26, 2012 An image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows an anti-regime demonstration in the Daraa province Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday as more than 30 people were reportedly killed across Syria, while security forces deployed tanks and helicopter gunships against rebels. The latest violence came as Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria