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 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran Bureau of Aliens and Foreign Immigrants’ Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, and World Food Programme established a greenhouse as a joint program in Semnan province, located around 220 km east of capital Tehran, to help Afghan refugees. Financially and technically supported by FAO, the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Treasury Department on Monday removed China from a list of countries the US regards as currency manipulators as the two economic powerhouses edged towards ending a damaging trade war. In its semiannual Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States, the Treasury concluded […]

Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that killed at least 43 people, officials said as authorities struggled to clear and reopen highways and evacuate people to safer places.

A Pakistani High Court on Monday ruled that the formation of a special court that last month handed former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf a death sentence was unconstitutional, casting into doubt the legitimacy of the verdict.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Head of Libyan internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj and his rival, renegade Commander Khalifa Haftar, is expected to sign a ceasefire deal in Russia on Monday, a senior Libyan official said. The signing of the ceasefire deal will pave the way for the revival of the political […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The death toll from last month’s volcano eruption in New Zealand rose to 18 as one of the injured died in a hospital in Australia, police said on Monday, while two remain missing and are presumed dead. “Police can confirm a further person died in an Australian hospital last night as […]