TEHRAN, Aug 02 -The best photo has been announced in the Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest after internet users chose the work of Justin Sullivan from Cape Town in the singles category. “Disconnection is a surgically piercing aerial view of an African elephant poached for Ivory in Northern Botswana,” the organizers say.
TEHRAN, Aug 02 - Beijing opposes Washington’s move to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Aug 01 - Israeli forces have made hundreds of Bedouin Palestinians homeless after demolishing their village in the Negev region for the 148th time, the Palestinian Information Center says.
TEHRAN, Jul 31 - The European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) has condemned the arbitrary detention of Saudi human rights activist Mohammad Abdullah al-Otaibi and the new charges leveled against him, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues in the country.
TEHRAN, Jul 31 - Iran says it is still planning to take the third step in reducing its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers unless Britain, France and Germany -- the three European signatories to the agreement -- take a major step towards fulfilling Iran's demands.
TEHRAN, Jul 31 - Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned Bahraini rulers that their tyrannical regime is not going to last much longer, after the ruling Al Khalifah regime tortured and executed two young protesters.
TEHRAN, Jul 30 - Republican Senator Rand Paul has made remarks with racist overtones against Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), saying he is ready to help purchase plane tickets for her to visit Somalia that might make her “appreciate America more.”
TEHRAN, Jul 30 - Twenty Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have started a hunger strike, joining nine others who have been refusing food for a month in protest against Israel’s administrative detention.
TEHRAN, Jul 30 - The captain of an Iranian-operated supertanker that has been seized by the UK says British marines used excessive force while detaining the vessel in the Strait of Gibraltar off Spain.
TEHRAN, Jul 29 - The number of international students entering Iranian universities and colleges has increased over the past years to reach more than 50,000 people , says the country’s minister for sciences.
TEHRAN, Jul 29 - Trump’s back and forth attacks against congresswomen referred to as “the squad” has attracted the attention of voters across the country as races heat up in the Democratic field ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
TEHRAN, Jul 29 - An unspecified number of civilians have lost their lives in airstrikes conducted by the US-led military coalition on a village in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
TEHRAN, Jul 28 -US President Donald Trump has launched a “racist” attack on Representative Elijah Cummings, yet another lawmaker of color, merely days after telling four congresswomen of minority backgrounds to go back to places where they came from.
TEHRAN, Jul 28 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says any presence of foreign forces in the Persian Gulf will only cause even more tension in the region, amid reports that the UK and the US are pushing for a joint force to escort oil tankers as they pass through the Strait of Hormuz off Iran.
TEHRAN, Jul 28- Several Syrian army soldiers have sustained injuries when a bomb attack struck a unit of government forces during a counter-terrorism operation in the country’s southwestern province of Dara’a.
TEHRAN, Jul 26 - Japanese officials have said they are pursuing procedures to downgrade South Korea’s preferred nation status as Tokyo TEHRAN, Jul 26 -expands export controls over sensitive materials.
TEHRAN, Jul 26 - Emmanuel Macron will discuss Brexit in the coming weeks with new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, an official from the French president’s Elysee office said on Friday. Macron has also invited Johnson to France for a visit in the next few weeks, the official said.
TEHRAN, Jul 26 - Britain’s new Northern Ireland minister Julian Smith said on Friday his country’s government was not on a collision course with the EU. The statement came after Ireland’s foreign minister criticized PM Boris Johnson’s approach to Brexit.
TEHRAN, Jul 25 -A spokesman for the UN refugee agency says up to 150 refugees trying to reach Europe from Libya are believed to have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
TEHRAN, Jul 25 - Turkey has completely received its first shipment of Russian S-400 air defense systems and is getting ready for the second batch, setting the stage for a potential new showdown with the United States.