TEHRAN, August 19 - An Egyptian man accused of hijacking a plane and diverting it to Cyprus has been sent back from the Mediterranean island to his homeland after a two-year extradition battle, officials said Sunday.
TEHRAN, August 19 - Italian Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli on Sunday called for sanctions against Malta, accusing it of not rescuing refugee boats in the Mediterranean and leaving the burden to Italy, in the latest row between the two countries over the issue.
TEHRAN, August 19 - US President Donald Trump says he has “nothing to hide” from US Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
TEHRAN, August 18 - A British former police counter-terrorism chief has sound the alarm in the UK about the growing threat posed by domestic rightwing terrorists.
TEHRAN, August 18 -Jordan has condemned Israel’s recent move to shut down the al-Aqsa mosque, which forced Muslim worshipers out of the compound in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.
TEHRAN, August 18 -Iranian First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri says the country is facing sensitive economic conditions at the current juncture, but all problems can be successfully solved through "national unity and coherence."
TEHRAN, August 18 -Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has denounced the continued imprisonment of its prominent leader and former lawmaker Sheikh Hassan Issa as “political revenge.”
TEHRAN, August 18 -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not “surrender” under the sanctions imposed by the United States over the detention of an American pastor, accusing Washington of launching an “attempted economic coup” against Ankara.
TEHRAN, August 18 - With its air raid simulator and battlefield reconstructions, the Sacred Defense Museum in Tehran seeks to glorify sacrifices and victories made by the Iranians during the Iraqi imposed war when the country faced down "the whole world."
TEHRAN, August 18 - The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has released ten Bornean orangutans back into the jungle to mark World Orangutan Day.
TEHRAN, August 18 -The United States has imposed sanctions against four Myanmar military and police commanders and two army units responsible for the atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country.
TEHRAN, August 18 - Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have held a funeral ceremony for two men killed by Israeli forces along the fence between the coastal enclave and the occupied territories.
TEHRAN, August 18 -Yemeni army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military campaign against their impoverished country.
TEHRAN, August 17 - Israeli forces have shot and killed a young Palestinian man in the central part of the West Bank as as tensions continue in the occupied Palestinian territories following US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital and relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the occupied city.
TEHRAN, August 17 -A new study has found that the chief executives at the 350 largest companies in America earned 312 times more than their average employees in 2017.
TEHRAN, August 17 -UAE State Minister for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash has hit out at Qatar’s pledge to make a $15 billion direct investment in Turkey.
US President Donald Trump has postponed until next year plans for a military parade originally slated for November in Washington, DC, citing the increased cost of the event.
TEHRAN, August 17 -German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will have tough talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on different issues but that she did not expect her meeting to produce any particular results.
TEHRAN, August 17 -An analyst says that Washington’s sole purpose of maximizing economic and political pressure on Iran is “harassment of the Iranian people ,” adding that such policy is “bordering on fascism and global dominance.”
TEHRAN, August 17 -China says Turkey will overcome its "temporary" economic crisis, arguing that a "stable" Turkey plays a major role in maintaining "regional peace and stability."