TEHRAN, July 21 - The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron's presidency deepened on Saturday, with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Macron caught on video beating up a young man at a Paris protest in May.
TEHRAN, July 21 - Egypt has condemned as racist a law recently adopted by the Israeli parliament that declares the occupying entity “the nation-state of the Jewish people ,” warning that the legislation undermines peace efforts in the region.
TEHRAN, July 21 -Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected "fabricated charges" against a Russian woman arrested in the United States on accusations of acting as a government agent, saying she should be freed immediately.
TEHRAN, July 21 - US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he will push China and the EU to agree to a more “balanced” relationship on trade during a weekend meeting of the G20 finance ministers in Buenos Aires.
TEHRAN, July 21 -Afghan President Ashraf Ghani might offer the Taliban militant group another ceasefire during next month’s Eid holiday, a government spokesman says, after the Afghan leader reached a truce with Taliban insurgents last month.
TEHRAN, July 19 -Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced the US opposition to his American counterpart Donald Trump as “pathetic, worthless people ” willing to sacrifice Moscow-Washington relations to their own interests.
TEHRAN, July 19 - Madrid has inked a military deal with the Riyadh regime, which would see a Spanish firm build five warships for Saudi Arabia, despite an international cry against the sales of military equipment to the kingdom amid its bloody war on impoverished Yemen.
TEHRAN, July 19 - Iran's foreign minister has denounced the United States as the world's leading weapons seller, saying Washington's excessive arms exports undermine global peace.
TEHRAN, July 19 - Iran has dismissed as “laughably absurd” an Israel-fabricated scenario, in which the agents with the regime's Mossad spy agency are claimed to have spirited away loads of "secret documents" on the country's nuclear work from a site in southern Tehran.
TEHRAN, July 19 - Turkey’s military says the head of logistics for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group has been killed as Turkish military aircraft conducted a series of airstrikes against terrorist hideouts in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, July 19 - The European Union on Thursday urged EU member countries and businesses to "step up preparations" for Britain's exit next year from the bloc, underlining fears the negotiations could fail and cause even greater disruption.
TEHRAN, July 19 -Israel's adoption of yet another apartheid law -- which officially recognizes Jewish supremacy over Arabs in the occupied territories -- draws sharp criticisms from the European Union as well as senior Palestinians officials, who have blasted the measure as "dangerous" and "racist."
TEHRAN, July 19 -A court in Turkey has sentenced a journalist of the center-left and opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet to more than two years in prison on charges of purportedly making people potential targets for militant outfits through her reporting.
TEHRAN, July 18 -The UK Labour Party has adopted its own code of conduct which permits harsher criticism of Israel while also stating that "anti-Semitism is racism."
TEHRAN, July 18 -Yemeni army, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, has attacked a refinery of the Saudi oil company Aramco in the capital Riyadh using a new drone unveiled on Wednesday, with the kingdom confirming a fire at the plant.
TEHRAN, July 18 - The United States should provide proof that Russia interfered in its 2016 presidential election, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has said, days after a seemingly amicable summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
TEHRAN, July 18 - A Pakistani high court judge has chided the country's powerful spy agency and police over alleged forced abductions, accusing the security apparatus of breaking the law.
China has once again censured the United States for its trade policies, saying Washington would be to blame for a chaotic global economy if it sticks with its “willful” decisions in trade.
TEHRAN, July 18 - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says the EU will remain indivisible in the face of US bids to split the bloc on trade through encouraging bilateral deals with member states.
TEHRAN, July 18 - Saudi Arabia has put to death row inmates, who had been convicted of murder and drug trafficking, bringing to 73 the number of executions in the oil-kingdom this year.