
FOREIGN POLICY
No military option against Iran: Obama
US President Barack Obama admits a military reaction to Iran’s nuclear program would not “fix” the issue.

US President Barack Obama admits a military reaction to Iran’s nuclear program would not “fix” the issue.

Russia announces 40 large-scale war games to be held in its eastern regions this summer.

The German chancellor and French president meet in Berlin amid ongoing talks over the Greek debt crisis in a bid to consider steps to forge a single digital market in Europe.

Scientists link a cat parasite to diminished memory and reading aptitude in children.

South Korea announced the death of two people diagnosed with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

The US Transportation Security Administration failed 95 percent of undercover tests carried out in airports across the country recently, a report reveals.

A Saudi court seeks the death penalty for the two Saudi officers who sexually abused two teenage Iranian pilgrims, a senior Iranian official says.

A passenger ship carrying over 450 people sinks in the Yangtze River in southern China.

Germany calls for the removal of Israel’s eight-year-long blockade on the Gaza Strip.

CIA Director John Brennan is “taking the lead” rather than President Barack Obama in “representing the actual view” of the administration on the US fight against ISIL.

A fresh US drone strike kills four people in Pakistan’s northwestern restive tribal region.

At least 20 militants are killed in fresh clashes between the ISIL terrorist group and Taliban militants in the troubled western Afghanistan.

A group of Chinese economic officials are in Iran to review investment opportunities.

Iran is to hold talks with European countries over gas exports to EU on the sidelines of World Gas Conference.

Senator Lindsey Graham entered the 2016 presidential race on Monday, pledging to make national security the focus of his campaign.

Courts in Egypt hand down prison sentences to 100 anti-government protesters.

British police can access personal data hundreds of times per day.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney will likely play a major role in the forthcoming Republican presidential race.