TEHRAN  – As US President Donald Trump remains entirely silent over a recent deadly earthquake in Western Iran, Sen. Bernie Sanders and four Democratic senators sent a letter to Rex Tillerson demanding that the White House waive certain sanctions on Iran and allow aid to reach those in need. “After earthquakes in 2003 and 2012, […]

TEHRAN- A manhunt was underway in western Pennsylvania early Saturday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a police officer Friday night in a town outside Pittsburgh. Authorities have recovered a brown, older model Jeep Grand Cherokee wanted in connection with the slaying, Fox news reported. SWAT teams and police dogs were assisting local […]

TEHRAN  – Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar has tendered resignation from his post, media reports emerged on Saturday. After his resignation, the ministry would be held by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqa Abbasi while an advisory committee on economic affairs would be set up to assist Abbasi, the local media added, Daily Pakistan reported. […]

Negotiations to bolster the climate-saving Paris Agreement, crafted over two decades, closed in Bonn Saturday, deflated but not derailed by Donald Trump’s rejection of the treaty and defence of fossil fuels. The US President’s decision to yank the United States from the hard-fought global pact cast a long shadow over the talks, which ran deep […]

TEHRAN  – Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Berlin in protest over the German foreign minister’s comments regarding Lebanon’s resigned Prime Minister Saad Hariri, according to Saudi state media Saturday. Saudi Arabia reacted to Sigmar Gabriel, who harshly criticized the foreign policy of the Riyadh administration, especially with the resignation of former Lebanese Prime […]

TEHRAN  – Russia on Friday cast a second veto in as many days at the UN Security Council to block the renewal of an UN-led investigation to identify the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. A draft resolution put forward by Japan would have extended the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) for 30 days to […]

TEHRAN – Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, the son of the late King Abdullah who was once considered a future crown prince, was beaten and tortured, along with five other princes, when he was arrested in Riyadh during the ongoing political purge in the kingdom, a report said. All six princes were admitted to hospital […]

Bakir Izetbegović, a high-ranking Bosnian politician, has offered condolences to the Iranian nation and government over the bitter quake incident in west of the country. The Muslim Bosniak member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a condolatory message in which he expresses deep regret over receiving reports on the deadly earthquake in […]

The US State Department has authorized the sale of $10.5 billion in Patriot missile systems to Poland, the linchpin of the NATO military alliance’s Eastern frontier against Russia. The proposed sale includes four radar sets, four control stations, sixteen launching stations, and 208 Patriot Advanced Capabilty-3 (PAC-3) missiles, the Pentagon said Friday. The deal now […]

TEHRAN – Myanmar’s security forces committed “widespread rape” against Rohingya women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the country’s Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report. A 15-year-old Rohingya girl told HRW that soldiers stripped her naked and dragged her from her home to a nearby tree […]