
POLITICS
Larijani in New York for IPU event
Iran's parliament speaker is in New York to attend an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference on global peace and democracy.

Iran's parliament speaker is in New York to attend an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference on global peace and democracy.

Republicans are devising new plan to increase pressure on Tehran as President Obama is moving closer to implementing the Iran accord.

The World Bank says it expects the lifting of sanctions against Iran to create an economic windfall for the country.

Five Palestinian prisoners continue hunger strike at an Israeli jail in protest against the Tel Aviv regime's policy of so-called administrative detention.

The Syrian information minister says resistant media outlets are countering the spread of false news about Syria.

UK's biggest oil and gas engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler says it is gearing up for a return to Iran.

A mentally-ill black inmate jailed in the US since April for alleged $5 theft has been found dead in a cell.

A rift in Japan's largest Yakuza syndicate may lead to a wave of gang violence.

Iran's nuclear agreement has had numerous impacts worldwide, says the nuclear chief.

Saudi warplanes carry out fresh airstrikes on several areas in Yemen.

Hungary ends the construction of a barrier along its southern border to curb the influx of refugees.

Crowdfunding raises over 80,000 dollars for Syrian refugee selling pens on the streets of Beirut.

The Bush administration considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks, a new report reveals.

Imam Musa Sadr, kidnapped in August 1978, was killed upon Muammar Gaddafi’s orders, says an Italian daily.

Black Lives Matter protesters march in the US state of Minnesota to highlight racial discrimination against African-Americans.

Daesh terrorists abduct some 70 people protesting the Takfiri groups’ recent execution of a local resident in a western Iraqi town.

New ambassadors of three European countries to Iran submit their credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

The UN issues a warning over an expected surge of mostly Myanmar's Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees.