
ECONOMY
World’s biggest tour group investing in Iran
Germany’s TUI Group, the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world, is interested in investment in Iran which is being tagged as the most lucrative hospitality development market.

Germany’s TUI Group, the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world, is interested in investment in Iran which is being tagged as the most lucrative hospitality development market.

The UN calls on Israel to investigate the deaths of four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces shoot and seriously injure a Palestinian woman in al-Quds.

New Yorkers stage a rally to protest the recent escalation of violence by Israelis against Palestinians.

Takfiri Daesh militants assassinate a Muslim preacher in Afghanistan’s embattled eastern province of Nangarhar.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anti-Daesh campaign in Syria, is a “go to hell” message directed at President Obama, says Lindsey Graham.

Russia has conducted “intense” airstrikes against militants in Syria, a UK-based monitoring group says.

Some ten million people in crisis-hit Syria do not have enough food to eat, aid agency Oxfam says.

Israeli military forces shoot and injure two Palestinians in the central occupied West Bank.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the Middle East and North Africa are set to benefit from Iran’s nuclear agreement, lifting economic growth in the region next year.

The Islamic Revolution Leader says negotiations with the US are banned due to their numerous disadvantages.

Saudi warplanes kill eight people, including six women and children, in northwestern Yemen.

Thousands of US automotive industry workers have threatened a major automaker with strikes unless they are given fair contracts.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif says the good-faith implementation of the Iran-P5+1 agreement will pave the way for addressing other issues with the US.

The EU starts a military operation in international waters in the Mediterranean to catch refugee traffickers.

Rioting inmates take over a prison in Brazil and hold ten other inmates hostages.

Italy says it is to discuss with its allies whether to join the US-led coalition’s strikes in Iraq.

Four people are arrested in Australia over the recent murder of a police employee in Sydney.