Earth’s intact forests shrank by an area larger than Austria every year from 2014 to 2016 at a 20 percent faster rate than during the previous decade, scientists said Wednesday as the UN unveiled an initiative to harness the “untapped potential” of the land sector to fight climate change. Despite a decades-long effort to halt […]

President Donald Trump ordered an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents on the US border Wednesday, reversing a tough policy under heavy pressure from his fellow Republicans, Democrats and the international community. The spectacular about-face comes after more than 2,300 children were stripped from their parents and adult relatives after illegally […]

Representatives from Iran, Russia, and Turkey are meeting in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss establishing a committee tasked with drafting Syria’s new constitution. Members of the Syrian opposition have also arrived in the Swiss city where officials of the three nations acting as guarantors of a ceasefire in the war-torn country are meeting under the […]

TEHRAN – Provincial governors are duty-bound to release reports about appointing women to managerial posts, Masoumeh Ebtekar, the vice president for women and family affairs, has said. Ebtekar said it is the strategy of the government to allocate 30 percent of managerial posts to competent women, Mehr reported last week Fortunately, good achievements have been […]

 People should be certain that production or provision of required goods for the society and solving any issue in production sectors are government’s priority, according to Iranian president. At a meeting for managing recent foreign currencies market fluctuations that was held on Monday, the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said “as the government provides the required services and foreign […]

PARACHINAR – The world is moving at a rapid pace, technological advancements have transformed lives, and economic growth has been spurred by innovative policies and practices. The economic success story, some argue, is directly linked to the fluctuations in gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate. But some argue against it. So, is GDP the most […]

TEHRAN – Manijeh Hekmat narrates a story about sexual assault and the culture of silence in Iran in her latest movie “The Abandoned Road”. The film premiered in the official competition of the 36th Fajr Film Festival in Tehran on Friday. The film is about a woman employee who is kidnapped and raped on the […]

Hossein Mousavian, former Iranian diplomat and a current Princeton University researcher, has elaborated on root causes of crises and instability in the Middle East. Addressing a recent conference on challenges of security arrangements in the Middle East in Beirut, Mousavian proposed three “major diplomatic innovations” to alleviate regional crises and foster long-lasting regional cooperation and […]

Loneliness is bad for the heart and a strong predictor of premature death, according to a new study. Loneliness is bad for the heart and a strong predictor of premature death, according to a study presented today at EuroHeartCare 2018, the European Society of Cardiology’s annual nursing congress. The study found that feeling lonely was […]

TEHRAN – The BigBang International Short Film Festival, which was organized with short films by Iranian creators in the Greek capital of Athens from June 1 to 3, announced winners of its second edition. “Manicure” by Arman Fayyaz was named best film, while Parviz Rostami was crowned best director for “The Scarecrows Also Die”, the […]