China’s box-office revenues surged in 2017 after slowing sharply the preceding year, official media reported, as the world’s second-largest movie market edges closer to overtaking the US. Ticket revenue grew 13.45 percent to 55.9 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) in 2017, more than triple 2016’s growth rate, state media Xinhua reported late Tuesday, citing data from […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will on Thursday meet women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, days after their plight has again cast a shadow over ties between South Korea and Japan. A South Korean panel set up to investigate a 2015 agreement with Japan on the thousands of girls and women […]

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, has denied her ties to Satanism, after congratulating a satanic organization on the New Year. “Oh goodness gracious. We can be civil, cheerful, respectful to & friends with people who don’t share our religious beliefs. Sometimes, we even marry them. I’m a Methodist […]

The European Union (EU) has condemned the preliminary endorsement of a bill at the Israeli parliament, which would ease conditions for courts to sentence what they call “terrorists” to death, saying the measure is “incompatible with human dignity.”  The death penalty “constitutes inhuman and degrading treatment, does not have any proven deterrent effect and allows […]

Hezbollah Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, said Wed. that the current situation in Iran regarding the public protests are not political and cannot be compared with the 2009 events. Secretary General of Lebanese Resistance Movement ‘Hezbollah’, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, made the remarks in an interview with Lebanese Al Mayadeen TV Network Wednesday night, adding “Iran’s current problem on […]

Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized the support provided by Washington and Tel Aviv for public protests in Iran and stated that Turkey is against foreign interference in Iran. Mevlut Cavusoglu said “the US president Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu support the recent riots in Iran while we are […]

After President Donald J. Trump’s election last fall, many experts predicted that 2017 would be a tumultuous year for international cooperation. During his campaign, Trump promised to “make America great again” by renegotiating or renouncing “bad” and “unfair” international agreements, and questioned the value of international institutions. Since January, Trump’s “America First” policies have seen […]

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has postponed his trip to Tehran, which was planned for Jan. 5, to a future date, the French presidency said Tue., according to Reuters. The French Foreign Minister, who was scheduled for a trip to Tehran on January 5, has postponed his vist to a future date. The visit is […]

TEHRAN – While the German government isn’t yet formed, and its two mainstream rivals, the Social Democrats and the Christian-party coalition, are seeking to form a coalition government, German citizens’ concerns about their political, social and economic future have increased. It shouldn’t be forgotten that, along with the political, security and social crises, economic crises […]

TEHRAN- Four people were injured when a homemade bomb detonated on New Year’s Eve in Turin, Italy. During their search, police officers found 12 more homemade bombs and cartridges, Stampa newspaper reported. According to the newspaper, the explosion occurred on the outskirts of the city. The bomb was hidden in the garbage can. As a […]