An Argentine judge on Tuesday seized a property belonging to a former Iranian diplomat who is sought on charges related to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. The judicial order stems from a million-dollar lawsuit for damages by a survivor of the bombing, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 others, Prosecutor Alberto Nisman told Reuters. Argentina has formally accused Iran of masterminding the attack and is seeking the arrest of high-ranking Iranian government...

"We have a very serious problem on the northern border with Colombia, an irresponsible government that does not take care of its… border," AFP quoted Correa as saying on Saturday. "We need to equip ourselves… Iran can supply us and help us with credit," the president explained. Correa, heading a high-ranking delegation, paid an official visit to Tehran earlier this month after he received an invitation from his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...

PARIS: French anti-terrorism police on Monday arrested the suspected military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA, just weeks after capturing his alleged predecessor "Txeroki," the interior ministry said. The suspect was picked up on a street in the village of Gerde in southwest France around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) together with two other ETA suspects. They were carrying revolvers and fake documents. French police moved in on the three men after receiving a tip-off from...

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad said here on Saturday that Iran is determined to establish comprehensive cooperation with Ecuador, despite the fact that the two countries still have no diplomatic relations. In a joint press conference with his Ecuadorian counterpart Rafael Correa, Ahmadinejad said that he discussed the possibility of establishing cooperation in the oil, energy, industrial, and trade spheres with the Ecuadorian president and his delegation. He also stated...

Iran's vice president for science, research and technology announced Saturday that Tehran is prepared to put its scientific and technological achievements at Ecuador's disposal. Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh explained in a meeting with Ecuadorian National Secretary of Planning & Development Fander Falconi Benitez, that Iran can help reform Quito's scientific and technical foundation. Iran was, in turn, urged to assist Ecuador in the fields of space science and satellite technology. ...

President Rafael Correa starts an official visit to Iran in search for market investments in the oil and energy sectors. With a delegation of near 100 ministers and businessmen, Correa will submit to his Iranian peer Mahmud Ahmadineyad six projects including oil exploration, production, residue processing and modernization of refineries. Ecuador Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador noted that the statesmen will talk offshore exploration, development of Panacocha oil field and the 31st...

Brazilian authorities on Tuesday gave approval for the sale of 100 missiles to Pakistan which can be used in air-to-surface attacks on radar tracking instalations, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said. The MAR-1 medium-range missiles made by the Brazilian firm Mectron are tactical anti-radiation weapons whose existence was kept under wraps for many years, according to Jane's Information Group. Jobim called them "very effective ways to monitor" areas flown by war planes, and said the...

Argentina on Tuesday denied its halting commercial ties with Iran due to an old diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Argentine Justice, Security and Human Rights Minister Anibal Fernandez denied he had told Julio Schloser, general secretary of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association, that the Argentine government had decided to suspend commercial ties with Iran. According to reports of the Jewish News Agency, Fernandez told Schloser and a visiting delegation of the American Jewish...

MEXICO CITY - The family of a student who survived a Colombian military raid on a rebel camp says she is returning to Mexico. Maria Alvarez says her niece Lucia Morett will return to Mexico on Wednesday. Morett has been exiled in Nicaragua since Colombia's March 1 cross-border attack on the rebel camp in Ecuador. She had feared prosecution in Mexico for having ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The attack killed a top FARC commander and 24 others,...

MEXICO CITY: A Mexican national was among the victims of an attack by militants on a Jewish cultural center in Mumbai, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the Mexican woman, who died in the attack, "was inside the center." It said the Mexican Embassy in India was still working to identify the victim. Source: