ECONOMY Malta Freeport has renewed its contracts with Iran’s Hafiz Darya Shipping Lines (HDS) amid rising anticipation that sanctions will be removed on Tehran later this year, the national paper Times of Malta has reported.
11 YEARS AGO INTERVIEWS An academic says the United States is spending top dollar on militants in Syria every year.
11 YEARS AGO MORE Armenian riot police use water cannon to break up a protest rally against a hike in public electricity prices.
11 YEARS AGO AFGHANISTAN Afghan forces recapture a district in the country’s northeastern province of Kunduz.
11 YEARS AGO ECONOMY Iran’s main bourse lost $3.5 billion in the month of Khordad that ended on June 21 as a lingering recession took its toll on major businesses, the daily Hamshahri reported on Tuesday.
11 YEARS AGO FOREIGN POLICY Ron Paul has warned about a world monetary system in which the US has no say.
11 YEARS AGO MORE Saudi fighter jets pound various areas across Yemen, killing and wounding a number of people.
11 YEARS AGO NUCLEAR ENERGY Iran’s Majlis approves the details of a bill that requires the administration to safeguard the country’s nuclear rights.
11 YEARS AGO MORE The Japanese premier is heckled during a ceremony to mark the Battle of Okinawa.
11 YEARS AGO SOCIETY Citrus Heights police fatally shot an armed suspect at the Greenback Manor Apartments Monday.
11 YEARS AGO FRANCE Paris vows to do its best to save a French national on death row over drug offences in Indonesia.
11 YEARS AGO POLITICS Rwanda’s intelligence chief Emmanuel Karenzi Karake is arrested in London on war crimes charges filed in Spain.
11 YEARS AGO INTERVIEWS An activist says the United States is colonizing African Americans just like what Israel is committing against Palestinians.
11 YEARS AGO MORE The French defense minister is in Mali to voice support for a peace deal in France’s former colony.
11 YEARS AGO PALESTINE Senior Israeli and Turkish officials reportedly hold a secret meeting in the Italian capital, Rome.
11 YEARS AGO INTERVIEWS The US is seeking to have a “never-ending war” in the Middle East for the sake of Israel, says an analyst.
11 YEARS AGO KOREAS Significant rainfall in North Korea over the past 12 days fails to end the severe drought in the country.
11 YEARS AGO BUSINESS Europe’s efforts to reduce dependence on the Russian energy have been dealt a new blow after reports that the Anglo-Dutch energy behemoth Shell was teaming up with Gazprom on several projects.
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