AP: Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country opposes an impending deal to expand the U.S. military's presence in Colombia.

Reuters: France has agreed to provide bail for Clotilde Reiss, a French teaching assistant tried in Iran on spying charges but she will not be allowed to leave the country, Iranian news agencies said on Wednesday.

AFP: The trial of detained French lecturer Clotilde Reiss has ended but she remains in prison, the Tehran prosecutor was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying on Wednesday.

Reuters: The United Nations said on Wednesday that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did not congratulate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his contested re-election, reversing a previous statement.

AFP: US officials do not know the location of the Americans arrested after hiking into Iran from Iraq, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Wednesday.

Reuters: Iran's speaker of parliament on Wednesday rejected as "baseless" an opposition leader's accusation that some moderates had been raped in jails after their detention in unrest following the June election.

AFP: President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed the release Tuesday of a French embassy worker from a Tehran prison but called on Iran to free a young Frenchwoman still held there on spy charges.

AFP: More than 200 Iranian MPs have told President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he must have experienced ministers in his cabinet if it is to win a confidence vote in parliament, the ISNA news agency said on Tuesday.

AFP: Paris was hopeful of an early release of a French woman, Clotilde Reiss, on trial in connection with post-election protests in Iran, French government spokesman Luc Chatel said on Tuesday.

AFP: Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday that 4,000 people were initially arrested by security forces in the crackdown on protesters after June's disputed presidential election.