Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is “seriously tired” of waiting for the European Union to decide whether to accept his country as a member of the bloc. The Turkish leader made the comments during a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday, making it plain that Ankara […]

‘We put our man on top’, Trump said on bin Salman, book reveals A new book based on interviews purportedly coming from White House insiders has revealed that US President Donald Trump was behind the elevation of Mohammed bin Salman to the position of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince last year. The claim is included in the […]

Sweden’s foreign minister has refused the Nikki Haley’s request for an emergency session at UN Security Council over the recent protests in Iran, saying that there are other ways to pursue the issue. Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wasllström said in a statement about recent unrest in Iran that she had rejected the US proposal to […]

Joe Biden, the former vice-president of the U.S., has said that annulling the 2015 nuclear will isolate the U.S. from its allies. He defended the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in an interview with PBS NewsHour published on Thursday. The nuclear deal was signed between Iran, the European Union, Germany […]

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia against making belligerent statements on the recent developments inside Iran, calling on them to tone down their rhetoric which, he said, could lead to “war.” “The official line pursued by the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, who are our allies in many ways, […]

The US has imposed sanctions on five Iranian companies it alleges are tied to the Islamic Republic’s development of ballistic missiles. The Treasury Department linked the measure to the recent wave of deadly unrest that has hit some areas in Iran, though the US has targeted Tehran’s missile program in the past too for other […]

The French Alps were on maximum avalanche alert Thursday as Storm Eleanor swept through Europe, killing at least five people and fanning rare winter wildfires in Corsica. With the mountains packed with skiers for the school holidays, major resort Val d’Isere closed its runs for the day because of heavy snowfall, while Chamonix said it […]

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 […]