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Israeli Defense Minister stressed that Israel is not playing games when it comes to striking Iran.
The spokesman of the advance team of UN observers said the group visited two central regions and established contacts with all parties there on Sunday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that there is no barrier to the development of political, economic and cultural relations between Iran and Iraq.
Israeli navy evening boarded a ship carrying a Liberian flag on Mediterranean waters, on suspicions that it was carrying weapons to the Gaza strip.
King Abdullah II of Jordan on Thursday named Fayez Tarawneh as the new prime minister, shortly after the resignation of former Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh.
Nearly one in two Germans believe Iran poses a bigger threat to world peace than Israel, according to a poll on Sunday, disagreeing with renowned German author Guenter Grass whose criticism of the Jewish state triggered an international outcry.
International envoy Kofi Annan welcomed Sunday the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution to authorize a UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), and urged all parities in the country to work with UN monitors to consolidate the fragile ceasefire.
Iran's military has started to build a copy of a US surveillance drone captured last year after breaking the software encryption, Iranian media reported.
A French aid worker was kidnapped by gunmen late on Saturday in Yemen's western port city of Hodayda, an official of the interior ministry told Xinhua.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki will arrive in Tehran on Sunday for an official two-day visit, the local satellite Press TV reported on Saturday.
Two observers have stationed in the central Homs province so far in order to monitor the implementation of the UN-backed cease-fire in the conflict-torn Syrian province.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution, approving to expand the unarmed military observers to 300 from 30 in Syria.