The U.N. sponsored cease-fire agreement in Yemen is still fragile amid reports of violations and lack of trust between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government loyalists Click To Continue
A Florida official came under fire after comparing Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib to a suicide bomber who might blow up the Capitol Hill. Tlaib is the first Palestinian American woman in United States... Click To Continue
A school in a tough area in England which has great teachers and a great curriculum could be rated outstanding from September, even if pupils' results are mediocre, said the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and...
Turkey’s defense minister met the president of Belarus on Tuesday during his first official visit to Minsk. Turkey's Hulusi Akar and Alexander Lukashenko held a one-hour closed-door meeting at the Freedom Palace. Speaking to the press...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad described Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call in regard with the case of a jailed spy as “meddlesome”, and reminded that Britain’s interference in internal affairs of his...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to the UN Agencies Headquartered in Vienna Kazzem Qaribabadi blasted the western states for their double-standard policies on terrorism and sheltering terrorists in their lands.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Kamal Kharrazi blasted Poland for surrendering to the US pressures to host an anti-Iran conference in Warsaw, describing the decision as an insult to all European nations.
Referring to what has been circulated by some websites on a statement attributed to Dr. Ibrahim Bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, minister of foreign affairs, on opening the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, an...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani said on Tuesday that Kurds of the region have always been relying on Iran’s helps, and hailed Tehran for not cutting its supports for the population even in the...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined the US failure in its policies against Iran and the region, stressing that Tehran will continue its path irrespective of Washington's pressures.
British lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the European Union, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and leading to a no-confidence vote in her... Click To Continue
By Mahmoud Hakamian The people of Iran have been taking to the streets in defiance of the corrupt regime that rules their country for more than a year now. Corruption is visible at all levels of the country’s leadership and while the...
ANKARA,— Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that he viewed a planned 20-mile (32 km) safe zone in Syria positively and added that its range may be extended further. Erdogan said earlier that he had discussed a safe zone...
By Staff Writer The Danish Foreign Ministry recently announced that the European Union has imposed sanctions upon Iran’s intelligence service and two figures within it, finally acting upon recommendations made by Denmark’s authorities in...
Germany’s foreign minister says that the European Union could begin new talks on Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc if a current divorce deal is rejected in the British parliament.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own firearms, the first of many expected changes by the nascent administration to overhaul gun laws... Click To Continue
TEHRAN (FNA)- A leading Arab newspaper wrote that Israel has since years ago fooled the regional Arab states with Iranophobia and attempts to use sectarianism in the region.
A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian to death on Jan. 14 in a sudden retrial of his drug smuggling case, while another Canadian man has been denied diplomatic immunity, ratcheting up the tensions following Canada’s arrest of a top...
A senior parliamentarian in the anti-immigration League party was convicted on Monday of racially abusing Italy's first black minister and handed an 18-month suspended prison term.Roberto Calderoli, vice... Click To Continue
The British parliament's rejection of a negotiated Brexit deal increases the risk that Britain will crash out of the European Union without an agreement, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned... Click To Continue
Iraqi pro-government fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have stopped a “suspicion reconnaissance mission” by US military forces to collect critical information about the movements and positions of the voluntary forces in...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi lashed out at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for making warmongering remarks, and remind Washington that Tehran will not allow Americans to fulfill their spiteful dreams...
Fresh doubts surfaced Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s commitment to NATO, after he was reported to have discussed a desire to pull out of the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
The gradual shift from Atatürk Airport to the new Istanbul Airport will be completed on March 3, Funda Ocak, the general director of State Airports Administration, has announced.
South Sudan opposition commander Moses Lokujo flipped through his notes, explaining international humanitarian law to an attentive group of senior officers. "Soldiers are not supposed to kill someone who's not an enemy," he said. "And if...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in a meeting with Finnish Ambassador to Tehran Keijo Norvanto, said US’ regional policies have claimed 500,000 lives and $400 billion of damage in Syria,...
By Shahriar Kia During an interview with Al Arabiya, Brian Hook, the U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reaffirmed the United States’ determination in changing the...
British lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to reject the EU divorce deal struck between London and Brussels, in a historic vote that leaves Brexit hanging in the balance.
An explosion and gunfire have been reported in the Kenyan capital, leaving at least one person dead, with al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants claiming responsibility for the attack.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, and the two sides discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.
Politics Newly empowered Democrats could force president to use veto to continue unpopular war. Congress is expected to make an unprecedented challenge to Donald Trump’s authority to take the US into a war in the coming weeks, with a...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran-Europe Parliamentary Friendship Group Kazzem Jalali, in a Tuesday meeting with Finnish Ambassador to Tehran Keijou Incio Norvanto, condemned Saudi brutalities against innocent women and children in Yemen, and...
Amid threats to the safety of Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed, who was granted asylum in Canada, the Toronto agency that is helping her has hired a security guard to ensure "she is never alone" as she starts... Click To Continue
Politics Jordan says it has agreed to host U.N-brokered negotiations between Yemen's warring sides about a prisoner exchange. The kingdom's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Jordan accepted a request by the special U.N. envoy for...
A third of United Nations (UN) employees have reported experiencing sexual harassment at the world body over the last two years, according to the findings of the first-ever survey on such misconduct released on Tuesday.
A series of austerity measures imposed by the British government have left police in London with a significant decrease in the number of officers investigating homicides.
Politics Britain on Tuesday requested a vote at the UN Security Council on establishing a six-month observer mission to monitor a ceasefire in Yemen and oversee a pullback of forces, diplomats said. The council is likely to vote on...
Iran Focus London, 15 Jan - The Trump administration has recently expressed growing alarm about Iran’s ballistic missile programme, which they believe is the ‘largest in the Middle East’, advising that it poses a threat to US interests...
New UN envoy Geir Pedersen, who arrived in Damascus Tuesday on his first visit since taking up post, is the fourth head of UN efforts to end Syria's nearly eight-year-old war. The United Nations has had three previous special envoys to...