TEHRAN, Jun 11 - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday asked parliament to appoint a former Ukrainian envoy to NATO, Vadym Prystaiko, as new foreign minister and to sack General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko.
TEHRAN, Jun 11 - A report by the UK Charity Commission said that Oxfam GB, one of Britain's biggest charities, did not appropriately respond to allegations of sexual abuse against its aid workers in Haiti in 2011.
TEHRAN, Jun 11 - The US Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on three individuals and 13 entities over their alleged financial support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.
TEHRAN, Jun 10 - The United States has not taken any steps to create a joint working group to assess its concerns regarding Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defense systems, according to the head of the Turkish Defense Industries Directorate.
TEHRAN, Jun 10 - Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was arrested on corruption charges on Monday, Reuters reported a Pakistani official as saying. National Accountability Bureau (NAB) spokesman Nawazish Ali confirmed that Zardari has been arrested, without giving details.
TEHRAN, Jun 10 -German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says his country remains firm in supporting the 2015 nuclear deal but can't pull off "miracles" in the face of US pressures on Iran.
TEHRAN, Jun 9 - Police in Kazakhstan have reportedly arrested hundreds of opposition protesters at presidential election polls in the Central Asian country.
TEHRAN, Jun 9 -Several thousand fishermen blocked Bangladesh's busiest highway Sunday, police said, as protests escalated over a two-month fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal.
TEHRAN, Jun 9 - Britain could face a major disaster if it goes ahead with plans to reopen an out-of-date nuclear power plant in Scotland where hundreds of flaws have been detected over the past years.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 -Turkey and Azerbaijan have launched a joint military drill in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan, with the aim of developing the armies' coordination and ability to carry out joint operations, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry says.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 -The United States is open for more negotiations with China amid its ongoing trade war, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Mnuchin warned that Washington would move ahead with tariffs if a deal could not be reached.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 - Greek Education Minister Kostas Gavroglou said on Friday that Athens would open its first state-sponsored official mosque probably by September, when the €850,000 ($967,000) construction project is completed. “Soon the first prayers will be made by the imam,” Reuters quoted Gavroglou as saying.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 - Iran says new US sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of President Donald Trump's claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehran.
TEHRAN, Jun 7 - The United Nations (UN) has expressed “grave” concern about the human rights situation in Sudan following a military crackdown on a protest camp in Khartoum that killed dozens of people .
TEHRAN, Jun 7 - The French president wants an August summit of the Group of Seven advanced economies to take concrete initiatives on climate change despite divergences with Washington on the issue.
TEHRAN, Jun 7 - The Kremlin believes that it is inexpedient to expand the Normandy format, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Jun 7 - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Ankara is determined to protect Turkish Cypriots’ rights to gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean, AP reported.