The software the FBI and 18,000 other US law enforcement agencies use to analyze fingerprints may contain a Russian code placed by a French company after a secret deal with a Russian firm, two whistleblowers say. The former employees of a subsidiary of the French firm Safran Group said the company secretly purchased code from the Russian […]

TEHRAN – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Tuesday that U.S. measures against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – the official name for the nuclear agreement between Iran and great powers – is sending a destructive message to North Korea which is caught in a fierce nuclear dispute with the United States. “The […]

 ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister, Kairat Abdrakhmanov, said that reaching an agreement by the guarantor states  of the cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria,( Russia, Iran and Turkey) on a number of issues on the agenda of Astana 8 meeting on Syria, held last week, is a “great progress.” “We await further practical steps from […]

Representatives of the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces have agreed on a major prisoner exchange following a long-standing conflict in Ukraine’s volatile east. Representatives from the two sides made the announcement in a joint televised statement on Monday, saying they would exchange prisoners on December 27. Kiev representative Viktor Medvedchuk said Ukraine was ready to […]

US President Donald Trump’s lawyers have claimed that a central part of the probe into the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election will conclude quickly. Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that the parts of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation involving the president would wrap up soon. “I know we, […]

The decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev “On measures of ensuring accelerated development of the tourism industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan” of December 2, 2016, served as an important factor in ensuring further development of the tourism sector, granting tourism the status of strategic sector of economy, effectively using […]

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has announced the successful launch of a rocket with Earth remote sensing satellites. China successfully launched on Tuesday the Chang Zheng-2 rocket carrying three Earth remote sensing satellites, which is the last country’s space launch in 2017, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said. “CASC successfully […]

TEHRAN – Rodney Bruce Hall, a professor of international relations at the University of Macau, says, “U.S. Grand Strategy has long relied on keeping its armed forces to a strength level that the threat of new U.S. military interventions is always credible.” In an interview with the Tehran Times, Hall says, “I don’t see the […]

TEHRAN _ The European authorities’ challenge over the asylum seekers crisis continues. Since the formation of the Austrian coalition government, this challenge has been strengthened. The Austrian coalition consists of the Freedom Party and the Central Right, and this government is one of the main opponents of the current approach of the EU towards asylum […]

Canada has decided to revoke the credentials of Venezuela’s ambassador and chargé d’affaires in the country, reciprocating a similar move earlier by Caracas. Venezuela’s Ambassador to Canada Wilmer Barrientos Fernandez and its chargé d’affaires, Angel Herrera, were stripped of their diplomatic credentials in Canada, the Canadian foreign minister said on Monday. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said […]