TEHRAN, December 13 - Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has traveled to Brussels to attend a European Union summit as she desperately seeks privileges from the bloc that could enhance her chances of going through the British parliament with a controversial EU withdrawal agreement.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Afghan forces, backed by US aerial raids, are targeting Taliban field commanders whom they see as a major obstacle to possible peace talks with Kabul and Washington, officials and security sources say.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Europe is “working twenty-four seven” to launch the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), a payment mechanism aimed at facilitating business with Iran in the face of US sanctions, an official says.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Famous Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman has denounced a controversial Israeli law, which defines the occupied territories as the so-called nation-state of the Jewish people , as “racist.”
TEHRAN, December 13 - US President Donald Trump says he has "never directed Michael Cohen to break the law" after his longtime attorney was sentenced to three years for campaign finance violations and other crimes.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Courts in Bahrain have sentenced two anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down prison sentences to four others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri says the Tel Aviv regime would not succeed in case it opts to launch a new military aggression against his country.
TEHRAN, December 13 - US National Security Adviser John Bolton has said that President Donald Trump will not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “in the foreseeable future” due to Moscow’s seizure of Ukrainian ships and their crews from the Kerch Strait.
TEHRAN, December 13 -UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Yemeni warring parties have reached an agreement on a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, as a new round of peace talks aimed at ending nearly four years of a brutal Saudi-led war on its southern neighbor came to a close in Sweden.
TEHRAN, December 12 - European Union diplomatic sources have insisted that a deal on Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc will stay as it is even if members of the country’s ruling Conservative Party decide to oust Prime Minister Theresa May and introduce a new head of the government.
TEHRAN, December 12 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused the United States of hatching a plot to invade the South American country, saying US national security adviser John Bolton was leading the plan.
TEHRAN, December 12 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has noted that CIA investigations regarding the death of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi still continued.
TEHRAN, December 12 - More than a dozen civilians have lost their lives as the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group carried out airstrikes on Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
TEHRAN, December 12 -At least one civilian has been killed and nearly two dozen others sustained injuries after a car bomb blast struck near a medical center in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo.
TEHRAN, December 10 -A former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), has said that Arafat's death was not natural and he was actually assassinated, with Saudi Arabia approving the decision to assassinate him.
TEHRAN, December 10 -Protesters disturbed a US-sponsored event promoting fossil fuels on the sidelines of UN climate change talks on Monday, saying attempts to rebrand coal as a potentially “clean” energy source were misleading.
TEHRAN, December 10 - The European Union will establish a mechanism to facilitate non-dollar transactions with Iran in the near future in an attempt to circumvent sanctions imposed by the United States against Tehran, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says.
TEHRAN, December 09 -A Saudi television anchor has been banned from his own talk show after leveling criticism against the dismal performance of a number of government institutions as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the conservative country.
TEHRAN, December 09 - China has summoned the ambassador of the United States in Beijing to express its protest against the “extremely bad” arrest of a top executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in Canada, calling on Washington to drop its extradition request.
TEHRAN, December 09 - Saudi Arabia has is a regional "puppet" of the United States, an American analyst says, arguing that Washington needs Riyadh as part of its grand plan for global domination.