
ENERGY
Russia’s Novak due in Iran for key visit
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak will visit Iran on Oct. 21 at the head of a large economic delegation to discuss expansion of bilateral trade.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak will visit Iran on Oct. 21 at the head of a large economic delegation to discuss expansion of bilateral trade.

A Palestinian man shot and wounded by Israeli security forces last week dies of his wounds.

UK anti-slavery commissioner slams government of mistreating modern slaves.

US President Barack Obama and his Turkish counterpart Receb Tayyip Erdogan have vowed to step up the fight against Daesh Takfiri militants.

Yemeni forces kill several forces fighting along Saudi Arabia against Yemen.

Russia and a number of ex-Soviet countries in Central Asia agree to form a joint task force to defend their borders.

A new report reveals that US special operations analysts monitored the Afghan hospital in Kunduz, days before attacking it.

A ship carrying nuclear waste to Australia has left a French port despite safety concerns.

Two men are charged in the recent killing of a police employee in the Australian city of Sydney.

An Iranian official says the occupied territories are witnessing the emergence of a third Intifada (uprising).

Advocacy groups have called on Washington to probe suspicious deaths due to ‘horrible conditions’ in Florida prisons.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is to hold an emergency meeting on the growing violence in Palestine.

A refugee has been shot by border guards in Bulgaria, and has succumbed to his wounds, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry says.

Antibiotic resistance could be dangerous for patients, a new study says.

Takfiri militants abduct three pro-government militiamen in Egypt’s beleaguered Sinai Peninsula.

The European Union and Turkey reach a deal to find a solution to block the huge influx of refugees arriving in the bloc.

The former US National Security Agency's executive says Washington's assassination campaign has killed far more civilians than reported.

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip fully support the uprising in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) against Israel.