
ECONOMY
UK business secy. postpones Iran trip
UK’s Business Secretary Sajid Javid has postponed a major trade visit to Iran.

UK’s Business Secretary Sajid Javid has postponed a major trade visit to Iran.

An Iranian football referee and two linesmen will officiate at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.

A member of the US military has been killed in combat by the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in northern Iraq, according to the Pentagon.

The UN envoy for Syria says a faltering ceasefire in the country should be brought back on track.

Iran’s deaf junior Greco-Roman wrestlers finish runner-up at the 2016 World Deaf Wrestling Cadet and Junior Greco-Roman Championship in Tehran.

Dozens of people are killed as militants strike two mosques and a hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Tel Aviv is planning to apply Israeli law in the occupied West Bank settlements in a move condemned as “creeping annexation” of occupied Palestinian lands.

A top MP calls on Iranians to demand reparations for US hostile moves during the 1953 coup and years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

France says EU-US talks on a trade pact are likely to fail due to Washington’s intransigence.

Iran’s president says the country’s nuclear agreement with the P5+1 countries ended up benefiting as many as 188 countries.

Millions of people converge in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of the 7th Shia Imam, Imam Musa ibn Jafar al-Kazim (PBUH).

CIA Director John Brennan says the United States will undoubtedly destroy the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.

Two UK Typhoon warplanes wee scrambled to intercept an Air France civilian aircraft.

Iran says some parties intervening in Syria’s crisis lent their support to terror groups to realize their ambitions.

Turkish Parliamentary Constitutional Committee approves a proposal to strip lawmakers of their immunity from prosecution.

Fire has broken out at a Rohingya Muslim camp in western Myanmar, burning hundreds of homes and leaving over 2,000 people homeless.

People in nine Arab countries said they experienced worsening corruption last year, a study finds out.

Yemen's Houthi leader has criticized pro-Saudi delegates for abandoning UN-brokered Yemen peace talks in Kuwait.