
ECONOMY
India to start clearing Iran debts in days
Indian officials say the country is preparing to clear $6.5 billion of dues it owes to Iran for oil import in tranches.

Indian officials say the country is preparing to clear $6.5 billion of dues it owes to Iran for oil import in tranches.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller posted a photo on Facebook that advocated for bombing the ‘Muslim world’ with atomic bombs.

The UN mission in the Central African Republic vows full investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by its peacekeepers.

The US should “send back” Chinese nationals who have escaped to the country over “corruption,” says a former American intelligence linguist.

A female Palestinian prisoner joins her captive brother in an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with dying hunger-striker Muhammad Allan.

Djibouti has ordered the US to vacate its Obock military base and turn it over to the Chinese military, raising major concerns in Washington.

The UN Security Council endorses a plan calling for talks to end the crisis in Syria.

Evidence of a prehistoric massacre has been found at a seven-millennia-old mass grave site in central Germany.

Senior Muslim scholars gather in the Egyptian capital Cairo to address “extremist fatwas” issued by terrorist groups.

A nuclear power plant in the US state of South Carolina was temporarily put on lockdown due to a "potential security event."

Obama has been making private calls to Democratic senators in an effort to rally support for a nuclear agreement, an official says.

The prime minister of Libya's internationally recognized government has retracted his resignation offer.

Iran has denied media reports about plans to set up a joint chamber of commerce with the US after the conclusion of nuclear talks last month.

Fighting between two rival groups claims several lives in northern Mali.

A Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner facing imminent death has rejected the Israeli regime’s offer to release him on condition that he go abroad.

Iraqi forces retake a hilltop near the Baiji refinery from Daesh militants.

US presidential candidate Scott Walker says his immigration plan is "very similar" to the policy proposed by Donald Trump.

Iranian taekwondo fighters collect two more medals at the 2015 WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series 1 in Russia.