TEHRAN, August 29 -A member of the British Parliament has called for more action to tackle the high rates of child slavery in the United Kingdom as the government ramps up efforts to deal with sex trafficking of girls and gangs' use of children as drug mules.
TEHRAN, August 29 -Britain is reportedly trying to maintain trade with Iran in face of returning US sanctions and is even seeking tips from Japan on how to dodge US bans without being implicated.
TEHRAN, August 29 -A US airstrike has killed at least three people in southern Somalia, with the US Africa Command claiming the victims were members of al-Shabab terrorist group.
TEHRAN, August 29 -Police in eastern Germany have been accused of stoking tensions by leaking to far-right groups an arrest warrant containing the names and addresses of two men suspected of stabbing a man to death in an incident that sparked the worst neo-Nazi rioting in the country for decades.
TEHRAN, August 29 -Monsoon rains caused a central Myanmar dam to overflow early Wednesday, inundating about 100 villages and blocking the country's biggest highway, a government official said.
TEHRAN, August 29 -The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed media reports that France has told its diplomats to postpone all non-essential trips to Iran, warning about attempts aimed at undermining relations between the Islamic Republic and Europe, especially France.
TEHRAN, August 28 - British Prime Minister Theresa May has brushed aside claims that she might step down over criticisms about her fragile Brexit policy, saying she would fight off a possible leadership bid by former foreign minister Boris Johnson in an upcoming Conservative Party conference.
TEHRAN, August 28 - Myanmar’s embattled leader Aung San Suu Kyi has resorted to literature instead of addressing the critical humanitarian issues regarding her country’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority in her first public appearance a day after a damning report by the United Nations confirmed that “genocide” had occurred in the country under her watch.
TEHRAN, August 28 - African refugees who were rejected by Italy last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had been beaten, tortured and raped, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 28 - Kushner Companies of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law has been fined $210 000 by New York City’s Building Department over illegal construction activities.
TEHRAN, August 28 - About half of Americans want the US Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.
A senior Iranian commander says the country's military advisors will maintain their presence in Syria, giving more details about a military cooperation agreement reached between Tehran and Damascus this week.
TEHRAN, August 28 - Israeli forces have demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager who was shot and killed by settlers over an alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank last month.
TEHRAN, August 28 - Iran has opened its largest wind farm, marking a turning point in its bid to procure electricity from renewable sources such as wind power, solar and hydropower.
TEHRAN, August 28 - US lawyers have called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the United Nations' highest court --to dismiss the Iranian lawsuit calling for a lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, August 28 - A Syrian military official says the country’s air defense forces have been placed on full alert amid reports that foreign-sponsored militants were planning to stage a fake chemical attack in Idlib in order to give the US a pretext for an airstrike against Syrian government forces.
TEHRAN, August 28 - United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited the United States and six other countries to take part in talks in Geneva next month, a UN spokeswoman says.
TEHRAN, August 27 -The United Kingdom has granted asylum to fewer people over the past year, a new reports suggests, as activists point to the country’s unrealistic high standard of proof as a main reason for people being repeatedly turned away.
TEHRAN, August 27 -Yemeni forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly launched an airstrike against a strategic economic target in the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished homeland.
TEHRAN, August 27 - The trial of more than two dozen people , including a former intelligence agency informant, suspected in the killings of two UN sanctions monitors last year in central Congo resumed on Monday after a 10-month suspension, defense lawyers said.