TEHRAN, May 18 -A Boeing 737 has crashed after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana. The plane belongs to Cubana de Aviación and was reportedly carrying over 100 on board.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Belgian prosecutors say a two-year-old Kurdish girl, who died after police chased a van carrying illegal refugees in southern Belgium, was found with a fatal “bullet” wound.
TEHRAN, May 18 -Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the development of economic cooperation with Iran and all the countries that insist on defending their sovereignty and independence is one of the most important ways to confront Western plots.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Nearly a dozen Syrian government troops and allied fighters from popular defense groups have lost their lives when massive explosions ripped through weapons and fuel depots at a military airbase in Syria’s central province of Hama.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned Israel as a “brutal and rogue apartheid regime” for its recent massacre of the Palestinian people, urging a "transparent and independent" international probe into the Zionists' crimes in the Gaza Strip.
TEHRAN, May 18 - An official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has described the latest round of sanctions by the United States and a number of its Persian Gulf Arab allies against the leadership of the group as “worthless,” stating that the measures will have no effect on the country’s political structure, mainly the election of the parliament speaker and future government formation.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Palestinians have launched a campaign with the hashtag “We are not hungry” on the social media, calling for the boycott of Iftar or the fast-breaking meals offered by the UAE at al-Aqsa mosque in protest at the policies of some Persian Gulf Arab states.
TEHRAN, May 18 - German newspaper Sueddeutsche has pulled a cartoon that depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a controversial outfit, apologized for using it and fired the cartoonist who drew the image.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Russia has warned that Europe would be the one to suffer from the United States unilateral sanctions against Moscow since the sanctions are only aimed at promoting Washington’s commercial interests.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement on Friday published a policy program for government drafted with the far-right League, taking the parties a step closer to ending months of stalema
TEHRAN, May 18 - Miami police shot a man early on Friday after he opened fire inside the lobby of the Trump National Doral Golf Club, a resort owned by Donald Trump, and draped an American flag over a counter as he shouted remarks about the US president, police said.
TEHRAN, May 17 - In a spectacular own-goal the right-wing magazine The Spectator published an article online headlined ‘In praise of the Wehrmacht.’ Despite the copy being quickly changed, the original was screen-grabbed and shared on Twitter.
TEHRAN, May 17 - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the Israeli regime should be brought before the International Criminal Court for the recent massacre of tens of Palestinians during anti-occupation protest rallies along the border between the Gaza Strip and occupied territories.
TEHRAN, May 17 - The only way to establish world peace is for the United States to stop its meddling in other countries and focus on what really matters to the American people – ‘Making America Great Again.’
TEHRAN, May 17 - A Senate committee thinks it’s a viable scenario that Vladimir Putin ordered the manipulation of US elections to install Donald Trump as president. A CIA veteran of 55 years believes it’s more likely the spy agency framed Russia.
TEHRAN, May 17 - The US has demanded North Korea ship some of its nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles out of the country within half a year, according to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, citing sources familiar with the talks.
TEHRAN, May 17 -The governor of Iran's southern Fars Province says the situation in the city of Kazeroun is under control following protests against a plan to separate some districts of the city and merge them into a new town.
TEHRAN, May 17 -French police have used tear gas to disperse rural protesters, activists and farmers camping on the site of an abandoned new airport in the west of the country.