TEHRAN, August 28 - United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited the United States and six other countries to take part in talks in Geneva next month, a UN spokeswoman says.
TEHRAN, August 27 -The United Kingdom has granted asylum to fewer people over the past year, a new reports suggests, as activists point to the country’s unrealistic high standard of proof as a main reason for people being repeatedly turned away.
TEHRAN, August 27 -Yemeni forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly launched an airstrike against a strategic economic target in the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished homeland.
TEHRAN, August 27 - The trial of more than two dozen people, including a former intelligence agency informant, suspected in the killings of two UN sanctions monitors last year in central Congo resumed on Monday after a 10-month suspension, defense lawyers said.
TEHRAN, August 27 - China appears poised to scrap the limit on the number of children couples can have, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would end decades of controversial family planning policies.
TEHRAN, August 27 - Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says the country's security forces have disbanded two terrorist teams in the western parts of Iran.
TEHRAN, August 27 -The United States has objected to a lawsuit filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by Iran against the US for the re-imposition of sanctions.
TEHRAN, August 27 - The Russian Defense Ministry has warned that the United States may use a fake chemical attack carried out by foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib as a pretext to launch possible airstrikes on Syrian government forces.
TEHRAN, August 27 -The European Union's executive in Brussels will hold a meeting this week with the authors of a UN report that called for prosecution of Myanmar's army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
TEHRAN, August 27 -French President Emmanuel Macron says he will announce new proposals for the European Union to boost its security, calling on the 28-member bloc to stop relying on the United States to protect its sovereignty.
TEHRAN, August 27 - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says her country has always stood up for human rights around the globe, refusing to give ground in a bitter row with Saudi Arabia over the dire situation of human rights in the Arab kingdom.
TEHRAN, August 27 - A senior member of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party has warned that the country would be thrust into a “legal vacuum” if it fails to reach a withdrawal agreement with the European Union next year.
TEHRAN, August 26 -US Senator John McCain, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, was a member of the US military elite whose hawkish foreign policy positions led to the death of millions of people, says an American sociopolitical analyst.
TEHRAN, August 26 -A new report shows that the England’s health service has around 3.6 million so-called ghost patients, or people on doctors’ register books who do not exist or have changed their location, with the UK government allocating around half a billion pounds to treat them each year.
TEHRAN, August 26 - People in the United Kingdom should be given the chance to express their opinion on how the country would leave the European Union in March of next year, a political analyst says.
TEHRAN, August 26 -Moscow has lashed out at the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) for intercepting Russian patrol aircraft near Russia's own shores over the Black Sea, warning that such provocative actions are ‘simply dangerous’.