Top Chinese and American trade officials spoke by phone, signaling that dialogue between the two nations on trade issues is at least continuing despite a diplomatic row over the arrest of a senior Chinese businesswoman China’s Vice Premier Liu He, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spoke by phone Tuesday […]

Yemeni air defense units shot down a Saudi reconnaissance drone over the western port city of Hudaydah. Yemen’s Saba news agency, citing military sources, reported that the drone was shot down over the province’s Durihaimi district on Monday. In a separate development, Saudi warplanes targeted al-Shabab city in Hudaydah. The war on Yemen has so […]

Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Humam Hamoudi hailed his country’s growing ties with Iran, saying Iraq is in need of investment by Iranian companies. “Today, Iraq needs investments by Iranian companies and the Iraqi people are keen on good economic ties with Iran,” Hamoudi told Tasnim, stressing that close relations would boost both […]

Thailand will hold a much-delayed general election on Feb. 24, 2019, the Election Commission said on Tuesday, after the junta lifted a ban on political activity it imposed after taking power in a coup in 2014. The junta imposed the strict ban on political activity citing the need for order after months of street protests […]

A representative of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denounced the normalization talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel as a stab in the back of the Palestinian nation. Speaking at a meeting on “US Violation of Human Rights in West Asia”, held in Tehran on Monday, Hamas representative in Iran Khaled Qadoumi voiced […]

Demonstrations were held Monday in Denmark to protest plans by the government to send refuges and migrants to a remote island. On the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thousands of Danes and non-Danes thronged to protests in the nation’s capital and largest city Copenhagen and its second largest […]

Groups of “yellow vest” protesters across France responded scathingly to the “crumbs” offered by President Emmanuel Macron in a speech intended to defuse their revolt, but others acknowledged his efforts. “Nonsense,” “a charade”, “a bluff” and “a drop in the ocean,” were among the immediate reactions that greeted the head of state’s televised speech Monday […]

Just back from Yemen, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator said “20 million Yemenis are hungry,” and another quarter of a million face catastrophic consequences from a lack of food. Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock told reporters on Monday at the world body’s headquarters in New York that there was a “dramatic deterioration” of the crisis in Yemen, […]

Brussels will create an alternative payment channel to facilitate financial transactions between the European Union and Iran and bypass the US sanctions in the near future, the EU’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said. “I will expect this instrument to be established in the coming weeks before the end of the year as a way to […]

On December 7, a solemn ceremony devoted to the 26th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan was held at Uzbekistan Palace of International Forums. The event was attended by government and public figures, representatives of science and art, head of embassies of foreign countries and representative offices of international […]