Ethiopia proposes to hold its national vote on Aug. 16, the electoral board said on Wednesday, the first poll under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who has eased political restrictions and taken steps to open the economy since taking office in 2018.

Dozens of people have been killed by avalanches and landslides that have swept through the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir, officials said.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Democrats in the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, seeking to expand the scope of a trial that will dominate Washington for the next several days. Senior Democrats said they […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A number of Turkish media said Wednesday, citing the country’s Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar, that the S-400 systems delivered by Russia to Turkey last year will become fully operational in April or May this year. “The training of the personnel for the S-400 systems as well as the deployment of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – US President Donald Trump during his campaign speech has used misleading data to claim he’s created an economic “boom,” while Democratic candidates seeking to replace him twisted the facts in their latest presidential debate. Trump distorted his record on the economy and fell back on an old false claim about making […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ukraine prosecutor’s office said that had asked Iran to provide Kyiv with the flight recorders and black boxes from the plane which was unintentionally shot down near Tehran last week. “The Office of the Prosecutor General and the Security Service of Ukraine appealed to the competent authorities of the Islamic Republic […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The creation of G20 confirmed that G7 can no longer solve important issues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Raisina dialogue 2020 conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. “The creation of G20 was the recognition that G7 cannot anymore decide any issue of any significance,” Lavrov said. “And G20 which […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – US Senate Democrats said they had enough votes in the Republican-controlled Senate to pass a resolution that can limit power of Trump to wage war on Iran without congressional approval. Democrats leader in Senate, Chuck Schumer and Senator Tim Kaine, the measure’s sponsor, said they had at least 51 votes for […]

Gunfire was heard on Tuesday at two buildings used by Sudan’s general intelligence service in the capital Khartoum, two witnesses said.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday that at least 953 migrants, among them 136 women and 85 children, have been returned to Libyan shores in the first two weeks of 2020 after trying to leave by sea. “Most were disembarked in Tripoli and all were taken to detention […]