TEHRAN  – Bangladesh has called for a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to discuss the human rights issue of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Recently, Bangladesh had sent a notice along with Saudi Arabia to the UNHRC in this regard, Dhaka Tribune has reported. Their notice has received support of 33 of […]

TEHRAN – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the United States of trying to punish and compromise Ankara over its refusal to act the way Washington wants it to. “They [the United States] are trying to punish, condemn and compromise us because we do not stick to their scripts, which are obvious and are […]

TEHRAN- The German Interior Ministry is offering rejected asylum seekers a hefty bonus to go to their country of origin voluntarily rather than face deportation. This is a new effort to turn back the refugee tide brought on by Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy. The offer is intended to supplement the existing program dubbed ‘StarthilfePlus,’ […]

TEHRAN – Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed while escaping from Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen. He was escaping from Sana’a with an armored vehicle, when the Yemen’s Houthis killed him, along with his VP Aref Zoka and the secretary general of the National Congress Party Yaser al-Awazi. Other reports published in Reuters […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the United States of trying to punish and compromise Ankara over its refusal to act the way Washington wants it to. “They [the United States] are trying to punish, condemn and compromise us because we do not stick to their scripts, which are obvious and are being carried […]

Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has denied kidnapping reports during a televised phone interview. “Today, I am here in the country, so I think I am free to deliberate further on the issue, to explore and go down and talk to people in the street,” Shafiq said on Sunday. The announcement came after his […]

TEHRAN – The US and South Korea on Monday kicked off their largest ever joint air exercise, an operation North Korea has labelled an “all-out provocation”, days after Pyongyang fired its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. The five-day Vigilant Ace drill – involving 230 aircraft, including F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters, and tens of thousands […]

TEHRAN  – Axed Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont faces an extradition hearing in Belgium on Monday as Spain seeks to have him sent back to face sedition charges over his region’s independence drive. A judge sitting behind closed doors in Brussels will hear from lawyers for Puigdemont and four of his former ministers, who all […]

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the parties to the conflict in Yemen to cease all air and ground assaults. Expressing deep concern about the “sharp escalation” of armed clashes and airstrikes in the capital, Sana’a, and other parts of the war-torn country over the past several days, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres […]

TEHRAN  – The US president has responded defiantly to a guilty plea made by his former national security adviser, saying Michael Flynn’s “actions during the transition were lawful”. But he drew further scrutiny by changing his story on why he fired him. US President Donald Trump on Saturday shrugged off the bombshell news that his […]