TEHRAN, August 31 - The European Commission will recommend EU member states abolish daylight saving, where clocks are advanced by one hour in summer, its president Jean-Claude Juncker said on German television Friday.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Russia has delayed the publication of a report on North Korea by a United Nations Security Council panel, disputing some elements in the official paper.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Germany says it will sharply boost its funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in a bid to partly compensate for US aid cuts.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will procure Russia's S-400 air defense missile system "in the shortest time," paying no heed to warnings issued by the US, a NATO partner.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Pakistan is an "important" neighboring country to Iran, stressing that no third country can negatively affect relations between the two countries.
TEHRAN, August 31 - A Democratic congressional candidate has drawn an analogy between US President Donald Trump and former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, saying the two have "a tremendous amount in common."
TEHRAN, August 31 - South Korea will send special envoys to North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, on Wednesday to discuss the details of next month’s summit between the leaders of the two countries, a presidential spokesman says.
TEHRAN, August 30 -Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the country’s government troops will “go all the way” in the militant-held northwestern province of Idlib, stressing that Damascus’s main targets are members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front.
TEHRAN, August 30 -The British government has announced plans to ban the sales of energy drinks to children, amid growing concern about the impact that the high-caffeine, high-sugar drinks are having on young people ’s health.
TEHRAN, August 30 - Nearly 80,000 students in the US state of Washington were unable to attend the first day of school this week as thousands of teachers went on strike seeking higher salaries, teacher’s unions said.
The Russian Defense Ministry says the country’s naval forces will hold eight days of military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea starting from September 1, amid escalating tensions with Washington.
TEHRAN, August 30 -Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or reduced the prison terms of 615 Iranian prisoners convicted by various courts.
TEHRAN, August 30 - Bahrain's attorney general says officials have charged 13 anti-regime protesters with terrorism offenses as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, August 30 - Iran and Pakistan have emphasized their will to bolster neighborly relations in all areas, especially in the fight against terrorism, as Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif pays an official visit to Islamabad for high-level talks.
TEHRAN, August 29 - Thousands of supporters of a Pakistani Islamic party have called for the expulsion of the Dutch ambassador as it launched a protest against a far-right Dutch politician's plan for a blasphemous cartoon competition depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
TEHRAN, August 29 - Gun deaths worldwide total about 250,000 yearly and the United States is among just six countries that make up half of those fatalities, a new study has found.
TEHRAN, August 29 -Results of a new study suggest that more than a fifth of girls aged 14 in the United Kingdom have committed self-harm amid reports of increased admissions in hospitals of children and teenagers who have hurt themselves as a way of dealing with difficult feelings.
TEHRAN, August 29 -One of Belgium's top football TV presenters has been arrested as part of a police probe into a series of armed robberies, prosecutors said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, August 29 -Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is fully prepared to defend the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf and will respond in kind to any violations of international laws governing the strategic waterway.