
ECONOMY
MEDEF managers to visit Iran
Representatives from France’s largest employer federation, MEDEF (The Mouvement des Entreprises de France), will visit Iran in September to review the investment opportunities in the country’s aviation sector.

Representatives from France’s largest employer federation, MEDEF (The Mouvement des Entreprises de France), will visit Iran in September to review the investment opportunities in the country’s aviation sector.

Bomb attacks leave ten people dead and 30 others injured in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will discuss the ISIL threat in Afghanistan later this week.

The US Air Force reportedly scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian bombers that flew off the coast of California and Alaska on July 4.

A Nigerian government official says suspected cattle thieves have killed 37 villagers in the northern state of Zamfara.

Syrian Kurdish forces clash with Turkish troops close to a border crossing between Syria and Turkey.

Russia’s Putin says he will back Greek people in financial hardships.

Austria files complaint with the European Court of Justice over the EU-funded UK nuclear plant project.

Egypt’s military says it killed 241 militants in Sinai Peninsula from July 1 to 5.

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says a single forex system will be introduced in the country within six months after a final nuclear deal between the P5+1 group of countries takes effect.

Syrian forces and Hezbollah fighters are advancing into central parts of the border town of Zabadani.

Yemeni forces shoot down a second Saudi spy drone in the northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Income inequality in the United States continued to grow in 2014, according to University of California economist Emmanuel Saez.

A new survey slams poor care for British dementia patients.

Iran and the P5+1 hold a plenary ministerial meeting over Tehran's nuclear program.

Sen. Bob Corker has urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to not rush to a bad nuclear deal with Iran.

A malfunction causes an Iraqi warplane to drop a bomb over eastern Baghdad, killing nine people.

A pro-Palestinian rally in the UK reportedly closes a factory making drones for Israel.