Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was re-elected for a five-year term after winning 67.17 percent of the vote in a runoff, the government announced on Thursday. Opposition challenger and former finance minister Soumaila Cisse, who also ran against Keita in 2013, won 32.83 percent on Sunday, Local Government Minister Mohamed Ag Erlaf said on national […]

TEHRAN – The Bangladesh government officials who were in Myanmar to resolve the crisis related to Rohingya refugees have returned without making any significant progress, according to media reports. A 15-member delegation led by Foreign Minister AH Mehmood Ali visited Myanmar between Thursday and Saturday in what was the first state-sponsored high-profile visit to Myanmar […]

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed the US for trying to destabilize Iran by leaving the 2015 nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on the country, saying it is Washington, not Tehran, that undermines regional security. Moscow considers recent statements by the US ambassador to London on the Iran nuclear deal “mistaken and inappropriate,” Zakharova […]

Professor of political science says although the text of the Caspian Sea Treaty signed on August 12, 2018 in Kazakhstan does not define the share of each of the littoral states, Iran has to be very careful in future negotiations. Five Caspian Sea littoral states signed Caspian Sea Treaty on August 12, 2018 in Kazakhstan. […]

The two Koreas agreed earlier this week to hold a third meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in September as a rapid diplomatic thaw builds on the peninsula following their first summit in April.South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday his visit to Pyongyang next month will […]

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday revoked the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, and warned several other prominent critics they too risk being blacklisted. In a highly unusually directive, Trump claimed that Brennan – a former station chief in Riyadh who rose to lead the US spy agency – had […]

China will send a senior negotiator to the United States in late August to resume trade talks, its commerce ministry said Thursday, the first public meeting on the dispute in weeks as the trade conflict intensifies. Beijing and Washington have slapped tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of each other’s goods since they […]

Pakistan foreign ministry spokesperson welcomed the Iranian gesture of putting up greeting billboards on major roads in its cities and running greeting messages on advertising screens on the occasion of Pakistan’s 71st Independence Day on August 14, local media reported. “We welcome it. Iran is our brother and time-tested neighbor,” foreign ministry spokesman Dr Mohammad […]

TEHRAN- The CEO of Germany’s renewable energy company, Durion Energy AG, said his company will not stop working in Iran despite the U.S.-led sanctions against the country, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday. Uwe Jorg Kuhnle said: “We made $27 million of investment for building a 20-MW solar farm in Iran last year and we […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that Convention on Caspian Sea’s legal status laid the groundwork for settling all outstanding issues. The convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea that has been recently signed by the president of the five littoral states, namely Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, has laid […]