Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Friday sworn in as the second president of Zimbabwe at a colorful ceremony attended by thousands of Zimbabweans and foreign dignitaries. He replaced former president Robert Mugabe, whose resignation Tuesday after military and public pressure ended his 37-year stay in power, Xinhua news agency reported. Mnangagwa became Zimbabwe’s second president since […]

Kyrgyzstan’s new president Sooronbai Jeenbekov was inaugurated Friday in a ceremony marking the first peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in the Central Asian country. Jeenbekov, 59, a close ally of outgoing Almazbek Atambayev, swore to protect the “unity of the country” as he accepted the national flag and donned a breastplate signifying the […]

China has further developed an advanced navigation satellite system, called Beidou, which can be used in search and rescue missions. “China has mastered the core technology of space payload and ground systems for medium earth orbit search and rescue systems. The time is ripe for China to develop its own self-controlled search and rescue system […]

The Syrian National Dialogue Congress will be convened after experts agree on its participants, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. “There is a stable consensus that the Congress will be convened soon, this will happen after an intense work at the expert level on agreeing on the list of participants of this Congress,” […]

The UN nuclear agency Thursday said Tehran has given UN inspectors access to all the nuclear sites they needed to visit to implement the nuclear safeguard regime in the country. “As of today, the agency has had access to all the locations that we needed to visit,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano […]

TEHRAN – Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday for the return home of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to the neighboring country to escape a Myanmar army crackdown. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” […]

The first Russian S-400 missile system is planned to be delivered to Turkey in 2019, Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said. Speaking to the parliament’s Planning and Budget Committee, Canikli said the agreement for the procurement of the missile system was signed and two S-400 systems, with one being optional, would be procured as part […]

TEHRAN – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri postponed handing in his resignation Wednesday upon the request of President Michel Aoun, amidst Independence Day celebrations. “I offered my resignation to President Aoun and he asked me to put off presenting it, to allow for more consultations on the reasons for it and its political background,” Hariri […]

TEHRAN – The US State Department has cautioned its citizens “to carefully consider” travelling to Saudi Arabia, citing persisting terrorist threats and a spillover of violence from Yemen across the border. The travel warning, issued on Tuesday, warned of the threat of ballistic missiles fired from Yemen into the kingdom, Al Jazeera reported. “In the […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement described the collapse of Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) self-proclaimed caliphate as ‘an important chapter’ in West Asia developments materialized thanks to resistance fighters’ courage. “It seems another important chapter has opened in the history of the vulnerable region of West Asia with the cooperation, […]