TEHRAN, Jul 17 -More than a half-century after the United States government ended nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands, radiation levels are still dangerously high. According to a new study, radiation levels at some test sites are 10 times greater than those at Chernobyl.
TEHRAN, Jul 15 - Russia has rejected starting talks with Japan on the return of two disputed islands despite an agreement last year, in a move that could further delay the signing of a peace treaty, Kyodo news agency says.
TEHRAN, Jan 30 - Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf islands are inseparable parts of the country’s territory.
TEHRAN, June 24 -More than a dozen decrepit dogs splash into the Arabian Sea as the small wooden boat approaches. They know the fishermen's mission: bringing food and water for the canine population of one of Karachi's "dog islands".
TEHRAN, October 14 -US President Donald Trump said that he talked to the “incredible president” of the US Virgin Islands, giving rise to online discussions on whether Trump could use a geography lesson, or if there are actually two Trumps secretly present in the White House.
Tehran, YJC. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said on Wednesda that the three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb, and the Lesser Tunb are indispensable parts of Iran.
Tehran, YJC. Iran has slammed the UAE’s new statements about the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf as interference in Tehran’s internal affairs.
South Korea called in the Japanese ambassador to Seoul on Tuesday to lodge a formal protest over school teaching manual revisions bolstering Tokyo's claim to a set of disputed tiny islets.
Japanese education chiefs will instruct schools to teach children that islands at the centre of disputes with China and South Korea belong unequivocally to Tokyo, the government said Tuesday.
China on Saturday set up an air defense identification zone that overlaps Japan's over the East China Sea, where a set of islands at the center of a territorial row is located.
Four Chinese coastguard ships sailed through disputed waters off Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea Saturday, officials said, as Japan continued a massive drill aimed at bolstering defence of its remote islands.
Beijing's behaviour in its row with Tokyo over disputed islands is jeopardising peace, Japan's defence minister said Tuesday, days after China warned a reported plan to shoot down its drones would constitute "an act of war".
Tehran, YJC. -- Japan may nationalise any unclaimed remote islands in its waters in a bid to bolster its territorial claims, a newspaper said Monday amid a dispute with China over one set.