
ENERGY
Iran to stop gasoline imports in 2017
Iran’s deputy petroleum minister says the country will become self-sufficient in gasoline production next year as it eyes exporting the crucial fuel to other countries in the region and across the world.

Iran’s deputy petroleum minister says the country will become self-sufficient in gasoline production next year as it eyes exporting the crucial fuel to other countries in the region and across the world.

US neoconservatives are supporting President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, an American scholar says.

The Al Khalifah regime troops use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators.

The Islamic Republic of Iran will host Freestyle World Cup and Greco-Roman World Cup 2017 early next year.

An activist says the United States has a long history of disregarding Palestinians’ rights to please the Israeli lobby and the Tel Aviv regime.

A new deal is reportedly struck to resume evacuations from the east of the Syrian city of Aleppo, says the Syrian government.

Iran’s petroleum minister says Russian energy firms seek to make oil and gas swap deals with Tehran.

Beijing urges New Delhi to 'avoid disturbance to the China-India relationship.'

Ayatollah Khamenei addressed a number of state officials and diplomatic representatives of Muslim countries as well as participants at an international unity conference in Tehran on Saturday.

Thousands of protesters wage anti- and pro-Park rallies in the South Korean capital.

A post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal might take 10 years to finalize and still fail, the UK's top diplomat in Brussels has privately told the government.

Iranian clubs have claimed the top three spots at the 2016 Asian Weightlifting Clubs Championships in Qatar.

A former British envoy to Damascus says foreign-backed militants have reneged on a ceasefire agreement in Aleppo.

Iranians nationwide commemorate the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Thousands of airport employees and British Airways cabin crew will go on strike on Christmas Day in a dispute over pay.

Environmental authorities issued a red alert amid warnings of a new round of haze shrouding different cities in northern Chinese.

Unknown gunmen killed the five female airport workers and a driver in the southern Kandahar Province of Afghanistan, according to local officials.

Protests and looting are reported across Venezuela as the country replaces widely-used banknote.