The only UN-approved financial mechanism to curb deforestation, a key driver of global warming, has bulldozed the rights of forest-dwelling peoples on three continents and needs to be fixed, experts say. The latest sign that these schemes — which pay to restore tropical forests rather than cut them down — are falling short comes from […]

Israel and Jordan have long pursued a common goal to stop the Dead Sea from shrinking while slaking their shared thirst for drinking water with a pipeline from the Red Sea some 200 kilometres away. Geopolitical tensions have stalled efforts to break ground on the ambitious project for years, but the end of the latest […]

TEHRAN – The Russian ambassador to the international organizations in Vienna said on Friday that the Iran nuclear deal does not require any supplementary agreements. Mikhail Ulyanov made the remarks after a meeting of political directors of the joint commission between Iran and the 5+1 group. Ulyanov said the nuclear deal, officially known as the […]

Air attacks against the hideouts of ISIL group in Qush Tepa and Darzab districts of Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province have killed 35 insurgents on Saturday, an army spokesman in the northern region, Mohammad Hanif Rezai said. “In deadly airstrikes against ISIL outfit which were conducted in Qush Tepa and Darzab districts at 04:45 a.m. local […]

Omani foreign minister is heading to Tehran at the head of a senior delegation in a bid to further develop bilateral ties and economic relations between Muscat and Tehran, according to Bahram Ghasemi. At the head of a senior political and economic delegation, Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi is scheduled to arrive in Tehran […]

Tariffs, tech and taxes will strain finance ministers from G20 countries at a meeting in Argentina next week overshadowed by the gathering clouds of a trade war. The two-day meeting in Buenos Aires, which starts Monday, comes at a particularly tense moment just two days before the United States is set to begin imposing tariffs […]

As recounted in the joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of the three guarantor states of Syrian peace-process in Astana, the next high-level meeting on Syria will be held in mid-May 2018. The trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, and Turkey, as the three guarantor states of peace in Syria, kicked […]

The leaders of France, Germany, the US and UK have issued a statement on the nerve agent attack in the UK, saying there is “no plausible alternative explanation” than Russian culpability. They condemned the “first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War”, calling it an assault on UK sovereignty, […]

 Russia will expel British diplomats in response to UK actions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday “Certainly. Soon,” Lavrov said when asked at a forum in Moscow if Russia will order British diplomats to leave. Lavrov called the UK actions “the nervous reaction to Russia’s return as an equal partner.” On Wednesday, Britain announced it […]

U.S. Army General Joseph Votel signaled on Tuesday support for the 2015 nuclear deal, saying “right now, I think it is in our interest” to stay in the deal. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In his new […]