Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a condolence message to Iranian President over the plane crash which killed all the passengers and the crew onboard. The Aseman Arlines plane was flying from Tehran to the southern city of Yasuj when it crashed just 14 miles away from its destination, with 66 passengers and crew onboard […]

US must stop playing with fire in Syria, Russia’s Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the opening ceremony for the conference of the Valdai Discussion Club dubbed “Russia in the Middle East: Playing on All Fields.” “I once again call on our American colleagues not to play with fire and measure their steps proceeding […]

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that it is “absolutely critical” to make sure that the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, will survive. U.S. President Donald Trump has been making the harshest attacks on the international agreement. In a statement on January 12, Trump gave […]

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shukri, has reaffirmed Egypt’s support for the political solution to the crisis in Syria, which preserves the unity of the Syrian state and its institutions and meets aspirations of the Syrian people. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ahmed Abu Zeid, said: “ Shukri, during his meeting with UN Special Envoy to Syria, […]

 Pressure is growing for tougher gun-control laws in the US after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, with thousands of angry protesters demanding immediate action from lawmakers, and more demonstrations planned across the country in the weeks ahead. Organizers behind the Women’s March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, called for a 17-minute, […]

Thirteen people were killed in southern Mexico when a minister’s helicopter crash-landed on its way to the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that rattled the region, officials said Saturday. The 7.2 magnitude quake caused only material damage when it struck late Friday, but it triggered a tragedy in the town of Santiago Jamiltepec in Oaxaca […]

A high-profile victim of a disgraced pedophile priest said Saturday he was glad to finally be able to tell his story as the Vatican’s top abuse investigator began a probe into an alleged cover-up in Chile. Pope Francis has come under fire for defending a bishop accused of orchestrating the cover-up. “For the first time […]

Yemeni forces launched a major retaliatory attack against Saudi-backed mercenaries in Saudi Arabia’s Najran, killing at least ten militants in the border region. It came after Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, on Friday managed to block a large march of Saudi mercenaries in the eastern parts of Alib Mountains in Najran, […]

Fireworks residue caused an explosion and fire at a garbage station in south China’s Guangdong Province on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring one, the local government said. The fire occurred after midnight on Saturday morning at a garbage collection station in a residential compound in Shijiao Township, Qingyuan City, the local government said, Xinhua […]

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico on Friday (local time), triggering a prolonged rumble that the government said caused minor damage to buildings in the southern state of Oaxaca. A prolonged 7.2 magnitude quake that rocked Mexico on Friday left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the […]