TEHRAN, August 26 - A proliferation of extreme weather events around the world provides ample evidence that climate change is a reality, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, but she rejected calls for more ambitious climate protection goals.
TEHRAN, August 25 -Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is still waiting for Europe's guarantees on the sale of Iranian oil and banking relations.
TEHRAN, August 25 -At least eleven people have been killed and four others injured in an incident where a gas-fired water heater exploded in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad.
TEHRAN, August 25 -A new report has shown that the United Kingdom’s Prison Service actually failed to hire the staff it urgently needed in its prison facilities.
TEHRAN, August 25 -Egyptian police forces have killed four suspected terrorists who had tried to carry out an attack on a police checkpoint in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, a report says.
TEHRAN, August 25 -Iran's Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian says the country has restarted negotiations with Russia to build a new nuclear power plant capable of generating up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity.
TEHRAN, August 25 - In a large-scale anti-crime operation, the Brazilian police have arrested 1,027 adults and 75 teenagers for domestic violence, murder, illegal possession of firearms, and drug dealing, among other crimes.
TEHRAN, August 25 - A former British minister has indicated that lawmakers from the Conservative Party could block a decision by the government to leave the European Union without an agreement.
TEHRAN, August 25 - J.P. Morgan and Citibank, two top American financial institutions, will not commit to cutting Iranian access to international markets, which will add fuel to concerns among US officials about efforts by European states and Tehran's regional allies to mitigate the impact of the new US sanctions ahead of a November 4 implementation deadline, a report says.
TEHRAN, August 25 - US President Donald Trump is feeling the political heat after two of his associates were indicted in federal criminal investigations, with a growing number of congressmen calling for his impeachment.
TEHRAN, August 25 - Turkish police forces have arrested five people on suspicion of affiliation to a movement led by the US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of having masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
TEHRAN, August 25 - The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has condemned a coordinated move to block its channels on social media platforms, describing it as a "clear example of censorship" aimed at preventing the dissemination of truth and alternative viewpoints online.
TEHRAN, August 24 -Spain's government has issued a decree, allowing the removal of the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from a vast mausoleum in the "Valley of the Fallen" site near Madrid.
TEHRAN, August 24 - Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed July 30 election victory on Friday, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration, which will now be held on Sunday.
TEHRAN, August 24 - An analyst believes Human Rights Watch's criticism of Saudi Arabia is not enough given the magnitude of crimes being perpetrated by Riyadh in Yemen, adding that concrete action should be taken to stop the Saudi military aggression against the impoverished Arab nation.
TEHRAN, August 24 - Iran has strongly condemned the recent heinous Saudi-Emirati crime in killing Yemeni civilians, mostly women and children, in Yemen’s Hudaydah Province, urging the United Nations to help put an immediate end to the ongoing human crisis in the impoverished country.
TEHRAN, August 24 - The British government's handling of Brexit has been "nothing short of a fiasco,” says an analyst, predicting that any possible agreement with the European Union would be subjected to “immense criticism”.