
ECONOMY
Iran's Pasargad eyes ‘global bank’ status
Pasargad Financial Group, which owns Iran's second largest bank, is considering selling its shares in energy entities.

Pasargad Financial Group, which owns Iran's second largest bank, is considering selling its shares in energy entities.

Hezbollah says its top military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed by Takfiri groups in Syria.

Pressure is increasing on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to end his campaign.

At least four assailants hack a 75-year-old monk to death in southeastern Bangladesh.

The unlawful profiling of airline passengers on the basis of race or religion has become disturbingly common in the US, a new report says.

A Palestinian rights body says Israeli military forces have arrested 2,000 Palestinian children since last October.

Some Daesh terrorists have secretly received treatment at a hospital in southern Turkey, a source says.

Venezuela’s president declares a 60-day state of emergency to counter, what he calls, a domestic and US push to bring him down.

Norway's prime minister says the government will continue to invest in security.

Donald Trump says US voters do not have the right to see his tax returns.

Texas secessionists have failed in their effort to gain "independence from the United States."

The UN Security Council condemns Boko Haram crimes and their cooperation with Daesh.

A top Pentagon official says Takfiri Daesh terrorists are preventing the residents of Fallujah from leaving the western Iraqi city.

China has told the WTO that the US is failing to implement a WTO ruling against punitive tariffs by Washington on Chinese goods.

Syrian intelligence forces say they have captured a lorry full of medicine that came from Turkey and was destined to reach Daesh terrorists in Iraq’s Mosul.

The US risks a nuclear war with Russia by deploying and activating missiles in Europe, says an analyst.

Brazil's acting President Michel Temer gave political information to US diplomats in 2006, WikiLeaks says.

The Pentagon says China is using “coercive tactics” in South China Sea that may lead to an open conflict.