TEHRAN, Apr 12 -A controversial legislation enabling the UK government to jail people travelling to war-torn countries like Iraq and Syria have become effective as campaigners express deep concerns that the new laws could lead to the imprisonment of journalists and press freedom activists.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia is making use of the death penalty to crush opposition figures, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian and injured about 70 others in mass protests along the fence separating the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied territories for the 54th consecutive Friday.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 -Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Western countries, led by the United States, use “blackmail and pressure” in an attempt to keep dominion over other countries as Western-style liberalism loses appeal and new powers emerge.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 -Nine Jewish groups have urged US President Donald Trump to curb the annexation by the Tel Aviv regime of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian territory sought by his close ally Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - Algerian police have tried but failed to break up protests taking place in the capital, Algiers, demanding the departure of all figures associated with the regime of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - Thirty nine years after former US President Jimmy Carter severed America’s political and trade relations with Iran, a Republican successor to him put Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on a blacklist of so-called terrorist groups.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - France is guilty of human rights abuses of homeless people and laws guaranteeing a home for all fail to protect the most vulnerable, a UN special rapporteur said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Apr 11 -The Taliban have banned the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from operating in Afghanistan, citing “suspicious” activity.
TEHRAN, Apr 11 -The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assan by the UK government shows that there was no respect for the freedom of press in Western countries like Britain and the United States, a political analyst from New York says.
TEHRAN, Apr 11 - A Syrian official says Damascus reserves the right to re-establish control over the Golan Heights, which the Israeli regime has been occupying for more than half a century, stating that a military option to regain the area could not be ruled out.
TEHRAN, Apr 11 - British Prime Minister Theresa May has defended her decision to delay Brexit, though admitting it has created a “huge frustration” among many people in the UK, as some members of her own party repeating their call for her to resign.
TEHRAN, Apr 11 -Iran's foreign minister has taken to task the countries which first created Takfiri terror groups like Daesh to set the stage for waging wars under the pretext of fighting them, saying the blacklisting of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) by the US will not help those states revive the terror groups of their own making.
TEHRAN, Apr 10 - Thousands of Algerians have taken to the streets of the capital Algiers to protest against the appointment of the speaker of the upper house of parliament, Abdelkader Bensalah, as interim president, whom they see as a leftover of the regime of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
TEHRAN, Apr 10 - Results of a bombshell poll released in the UK shows support for the ruling Conservative Party has plummeted significantly as the opposition Labour Party surges in the run-up to the upcoming local elections.
TEHRAN, Apr 10 - London-based Standard Chartered has been fined $1.1 billion by US authorities for allegedly breaching sanctions against Iran and other countries.
TEHRAN, Apr 10 - The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has censured the United States for designating Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, stating that the move is a concrete proof that Washington has miserably failed in its plots in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, Apr 10 - Sudan’s Information Minister has cited a report by Khartoum police as saying that 11 people were killed during security incidents in the capital on Tuesday.