ECONOMY Foreign companies sniffing business opportunities in Iran mostly have their nose on the ground for its oil and gas industry but French firms are also targeting fragrant notes: the $1.5 billion beauty and perfume market.
11 YEARS AGO MORE The UN chief voices alarm over the deteriorating situation of violence-stricken refugees arriving in Europe.
11 YEARS AGO MILITARY The US should invest more in submarines in order to combat China’s growing military power, a study has found.
11 YEARS AGO MORE Burkina Faso’s army enters the capital in the wake of a coup by presidential guard forces.
11 YEARS AGO COLOMBIA Colombia and Venezuela agree to restore their diplomatic relations and work to end a month-long border dispute.
11 YEARS AGO POLITICS Iran and Russia urge further efforts to end the crisis in Syria through diplomatic means.
11 YEARS AGO MORE Gunmen abduct four people, including three foreigners, on an island in the southern Philippines.
11 YEARS AGO EGYPT Egyptian forces break up a “terrorist cell” in the country’s troubled Western Desert.
11 YEARS AGO SOCIETY More than one in four US college women say they are sexually assaulted by graduation, according to a survey.
11 YEARS AGO POLITICS Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are the biggest anti-terrorism force.
11 YEARS AGO PALESTINE An Israeli soldier shoots dead a Palestinian in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, a report says.
11 YEARS AGO SOCIETY According to a new poll, almost half the Americans consider the government "an immediate threat.”
11 YEARS AGO INTERVIEWS Based on the Constitution, Ben Carson was “wrong” when he opposed the idea of a Muslim president in the White House.
11 YEARS AGO SYRIA French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says a diplomatic resolution to Syria’s crisis is impossible without Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
11 YEARS AGO IRAQ Takfiri militants in Iraq target an area close to the country’s largest airport in Baghdad with rockets, security officials say.
11 YEARS AGO SAUDI ARABIA A human rights watchdog slams as "grotesque" the appointment of Saudi Arabia as the head of a key panel in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
11 YEARS AGO POLITICS Scott Walker is said to be quitting nomination for the Republican Party in the 2016 election.
11 YEARS AGO KOREAS North Korea blames US for EU’s refugee crisis while European countries stand divided on how to deal with the influx of asylum seekers.
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