As many countries tightened lockdowns on the eve of the New Year, Dubai opened its borders to flocks of tourists coming from across the world, branding itself as a sunny, quarantine-free escape hatch.

Tory grandee and former deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine has called for a second Brexit referendum primarily as a means to obstruct Scottish independence.

The French government is planning to deploy 100,000 police forces and gendarmes across the country on New Year’s Eve in an attempt to enforce a strict curfew.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country’s "historic" coronavirus crisis will extend into 2021 even if the vaccines bring some hope.

Iran’s president writes to Pope Francis and other world leaders, congratulating them on the occasion of Christmas.

With the greeting of the first rays of the sun on the morning of the winter solstice, Aymara herders on the Bolivian Altiplano sacrifice two llamas to Mother Earth.

Iran has extended the temporary leave of nearly 100,000 inmates in honor of the Persian New year as the corona fight continues.

This episode of the program is about Persian New Year and the Coronavirus.

Iranians all over the world are celebrating the ancient festival of Nowruz, a holiday that marks the arrival of spring and the Persian New Year.

Ayatollah Khamenei designates the new Iranian calendar year of 1399 as the year of "jump in production."