
ECONOMY
‘Iran seeks more investment in FTZs’
An advisor to Iran's president says attracting investors is the best strategy to develop Iran's free trade zones.

An advisor to Iran's president says attracting investors is the best strategy to develop Iran's free trade zones.

Protesters in Italy rally to slam Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.

South Korea reports seven new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

President Obama sent additional forces to Iraq despite warnings from his top military commanders that the plan would risk American lives.

Ethnic Albanians rally in Macedonia to denounce the government’s discriminatory policies toward them.

US women are being involved in combat roles while this has been barred for them for centuries, a journalist says.

Syrian Kurdish fighters are engaged in heavy fighting with ISIL terrorists near the northern Syrian border town of Tal Abyad in Raqqa Province.

A Palestinian man is shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank.

A computer in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in the Bundestag has also been infected in a recent cyber attack, a report says.

A conference on investment opportunities in Iran's free zones is held in Dubai.

Italian police disperse about 200 African migrants at a border crossing to France.

Iran, Pakistan launch freight train service between Zahedan and Quetta.

Police say four people are dead and one person is injured following a shooting in Ohio on Saturday.

Russia and China crack the encryption of files stolen by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Fax machines in Pakistan were reportedly used by a foreign country to spy on Islamabad.

The Cleveland police officer who shot dead 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice says he had “no choice”.

An Egyptian court sentences 23 people involved in the brutal lynching of Shia leader Hassan Shehata and three others in June 2013 to 14 years behind bars.

A former British militant recruiter says he regrets paving the way for people to join terrorist groups such as ISIL and al-Qaeda.