TEHRAN, Apr 24 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order simplifying the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of the rebel-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Jan 10- Iran has dismissed as "lies" US media reports suggesting that an American citizen it recently arrested is being held in suboptimal conditions.
TEHRAN, Jan 5 - The United States has detained Russian citizen Dmitry Makarenko on the Northern Mariana Islands and moved him to Florida, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Paul Whelan, a US citizen detained in Russia on spying allegations, was dishonourably discharged by the US Marine Corps for larceny, the Washington Post reports, citing military documents.
TEHRAN, November 16 - North Korea will deport a U.S. citizen detained since October after he entered illegally from China and told his captors he was manipulated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the North Korean state news agency reported on Friday.
TEHRAN, September 10 - The US will fight back using any means necessary if the International Criminal Court ever dares to probe an American or Israeli, and will punish those who cooperates with war-crime investigations, John Bolton is set to announce.
TEHRAN, August 3 - A Vietnamese-American man is being held in Vietnam for attempting to overthrow the state, his family and a US lawmaker said, calling for his quick release from the communist country that routinely jails its critics.
TEHRAN, May 18 - The United States is worried about the safety of U.S. citizen s held in Venezuela after a riot at a prison there on Wednesday and has appealed again for the release of Mormon missionary Joshua Holt, the State Department said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 9 - Israel has ordered the head of the local office of Human Rights Watch to leave the occupied territories within two weeks after accusing him of supporting a pro-Palestine boycott campaign against the Zionist entity.
TEHRAN, January 29 - Demonstrators gathered in front of the US Department of Interior in Washington DC, demanding answers in the death of an Iranian-American man fatally shot last year by US Park Police officers.
TEHRAN, October 12 -Three students have sued two Israeli airlines over what they claim was an ethnically profiled strip search amounting to sexual assault.
TEHRAN, July 26, YJC -British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis has said there is a "moral imperative" to reach a quick deal on the rights of EU nationals living in Britain and UK citizen s in the bloc.
The United States said Monday it was ready to send an envoy to North Korea to bring back a jailed American after he appeared before reporters in Pyongyang pleading for his release.