TEHRAN, Apr 03 - As US President Donald Trump pulls back from threats to close the border with Mexico, sources reveal that his son–in-law, Jared Kushner, is working on a plan that aims to increase legal immigration.
TEHRAN, Mar31-Leaked medical reports prepared for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman have for the first time provided evidence of the torture political detainees in the kingdom have been subjected to as part of the regime's violent crackdown on dissidents and possible rivals to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's rule.
TEHRAN, Mar30-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked governments and regulators to tighten the screws on digital companies such as his own, and slap them with sanctions if they refuse to abide by rules on privacy, political or harmful content.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 -India’s political parties have been abusing Facebook Inc’s popular messaging service WhatsApp ahead of the country’s general election and the company has warned them not to do so, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, December 15 -US President Donald Trump has named a White House official as his acting chief of staff after a number of his close allies refused to take the high-profile job.
TEHRAN, December 14 -United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has urged the Congolese authorities to halt violence after the government said it was stepping up security for the long-delayed presidential elections scheduled for December 23.
TEHRAN, October 27 -Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday suspended parliament till Nov. 16, a day after removing Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister and replacing him with former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in a surprise move that signals escalating political tensions in the South Asian nation.
TEHRAN, October 21 -A senior member of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has expressed uncertainty about the quick formation of a unity government in the Arab country, saying that he is neither optimistic nor pessimist on the matter.
TEHRAN, October 11 -The oldest Lebanese newspaper an-Nahar released a blank edition on Thursday to protest the ongoing political stalemate in the Arab country, where political parties have failed to form a new government.
TEHRAN, September 13 -A high-ranking member of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the ongoing developments in the Israeli-occupied territories do not allow the Tel Aviv regime to launch new military aggression against Lebanon.
TEHRAN, August 23 - Egyptian authorities have detained three leading opposition figures, including a former senior diplomat, as part of an ongoing crackdown in the country.
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, July 12 -A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to five anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, July 09 -Catalan leader Quim Torra says the Spanish region has no intention to give up on independence, stressing that Catalonia's right to self-rule must be respected for any political solution to take place in the future.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to at least 12 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, May 29 -Libya's rival leaders have met in the French capital, Paris, to agree on a political roadmap in an effort to bring order to chaos gripping the North African country.
TEHRAN, April 30 - Armenian anti-government protest leader Nikol Pashinyan has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister by his supporters, after two weeks of mass rallies in the South Caucus nation and a day before parliament votes on a new head of government.
A high-ranking Yemeni military official has held the United States responsible for the recent assassination of the country’s Head of the Supreme Political Council, Saleh al-Samad, in the western coastal province of Hudaydah, stating that Saudi Arabia is not capable of carrying such a complex operation.
TEHRAN, April 23 -Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the recent US-led military strikes against Syria will not succeed in stopping the country's war on terrorism.
TEHRAN, April 18 -Zimbabwe has fired all nurses who went on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response by the country's new leadership to growing labor arrest.