
POLITICS
‘JCPOA to boost Iranian-Dutch ties’
The Dutch foreign minister says the Iran-P5+1 agreement has set the stage for closer cooperation between Tehran and Amsterdam.

The Dutch foreign minister says the Iran-P5+1 agreement has set the stage for closer cooperation between Tehran and Amsterdam.

The Cuban former president Fidel Castro has given his book on spirituality to Pope Francis during a meeting amid Pope’s visit to the Caribbean country.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Pentagon's program to train and equip “moderate” militants to fight inside Syria has failed.

Iran's President Rouhani says the recent nuclear agreement has proved wrong the accusation that Tehran is after nukes.

Alexis Tsipras declares victory for his Left-wing Syriza political party in Greece's snap elections.

At least 8 people are killed in multiple bomb explosions in Nigeria.

Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders censures his Republican rival, Ben Carson, for making inappropriate remarks about Muslims.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry confirms the deaths of two government troops in an attack on the Najran region.

An arson attack on a gym, destined to be a shelter for refugees, in the southwestern German town of Wertheim, leaves the place uninhabitable.

A rights group raps as “scandalous” the appointment of Saudi Arabia as the head of a key panel in the UN Human Rights Council.

The Russians are in Syria to protect the Syrian government and their naval facility in Tartus, which provides Moscow access to the Mediterranean, a former Pentagon official says.

Over 7,000 more refugees enter Austria from Hungary via Croatia.

Hamas calls on Cairo to stop submerging the border area between the Gaza Strip and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Twenty senior leaders of the Daesh terrorist group have been killed in an aerial bombardment carried out by Iraq’s air force in Anbar province.

Eiffel Tower temporarily shuts down following a bomb scare, with 'parachutist' suspects vanishing into thin air.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says no Muslim should ever be elected US president.

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Turkey to rally against terrorism.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced that America is set to bump up its refugee admissions to 100,000 by 2017.