
ECONOMY
Moderate drop seen in Iran-US trade
Official figures show there has been a decrease of about 17 percent in the overall level of trade between Iran and the US from January to May 2016.

Official figures show there has been a decrease of about 17 percent in the overall level of trade between Iran and the US from January to May 2016.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has attacked the coordinated Daesh attacks on a Shia shrine north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Nearly 500 people were killed by police in the US during the first six months of 2016, a study shows.

Three people are killed in an Indonesian military helicopter crash in Central Java.

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the United States and its allies used WMDs lie to access Iraq’s energy resources during the 2003 invasion of the Arab country.

Police in Britain warns of a soar in the number of hate crimes committed during weeks before and after the UK's Leave vote.

At least 15 Riyadh-sponsored mercenaries have been killed when Saudi jets mistakenly struck them in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah.

Six people are killed in a bomb attack at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria.

Hillary Clinton should be denied access to classified information for the rest of her 2016 campaign, US House Speaker Paul Ryan says.

Ukraine's security service arrests the deputy health minister for allegedly receiving bribery to provide patients with treatment.

Iran says the the US administration is duty-bound to correct all measures that are at odds with the JCPOA.

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita reshuffles his government, introducing new ministers.

The American sniper in Dallas, Texas, who killed five police officers said he wanted to kill white officers for killing black people.

US President Barack Obama has urged leaders of the NATO military alliance to stand firm against Russia.

An Iranian Foreign Ministry official has urged the UN chief not to give in to 'political pressure' in his report to the UN Security Council over the implementation of the JCPOA.

The Philippines is willing to share the natural resources of the disputed South China Sea with Beijing.

At least a dozen Kurdish PKK militants have been killed when Turkish fighter jets conducted airstrikes in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari and northern Iraq.

Renewed violence in the Central African Republic has forced thousands of people to flee, the UN says.