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Tehran will not abide by the new resolution of the UN Security Council unanimously approved on Saturday, spokesman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali said on Sunday.

A U.S. warship has come close to the Ukrainian ship Faina seized by Somalia pirates. Local authorities explained the move with the wish to prevent the unloading the weaponry from the Faina.

Russia has offered sextet colleagues (the United States, France, China, the United Kingdom and Germany) to consider a new resolution of the UN Security Council on the Iranian nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has claimed responsibility in a video message for an August ambush that killed 10 French soldiers, an Afghan news agency reported Monday, saying it had seen the footage.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he is sure that diplomatic relations with Georgia would be restored in the future.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was to meet Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Friday after Russia risked Washington's wrath by offering the fierce US foe help developing nuclear energy.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had dinner on Thursday with around 200 people of various faiths including Mennonites, Jews and Zoroastrians who said they wanted to promote peace by meeting such a prominent foe of the United States.

Afghan army recruit Mohammad Sediq is sitting out his class at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul because his feet became swollen after he wore ill-fitting military boots without socks.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will on Thursday meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

U.S. military experts have started consultations in Prague on the deployment of a missile-defense radar in the Czech Republic, the Czech Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.