
ECONOMY
Report: Yandex denies Iran office plans
Russia’s technology and internet company Yandex has reportedly denied plans to open an office in Iran.

Russia’s technology and internet company Yandex has reportedly denied plans to open an office in Iran.

Yemeni forces have launched a retaliatory attack against a Saudi base, killing at least two soldiers.

The US is trying to undermine and degrade the Russian military’s capability to conduct missions in Syria, says an analyst.

The Russians may not cut subsea Internet cables unless there is a war, says an analyst.

Thousands of tourists are stranded due to landslides in mountainous northeastern Pakistan.

South Korea says it has offered Japan a long-awaited leadership summit.

Noam Chomsky says by invading Iraq in 2003, the United States committed the worst crime of this century yet.

Bangladesh arrests four people suspected of killing an Italian aid worker last month.

Military barracks are attacked by a gunman in an unidentified location in Belgium, a Belgian newspaper says.

Head of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) sees Iran joining the elite club of LNG exporters in the next two years, which would crucially strengthen the resource-rich country’s clout in the energy market.

An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes northeast Afghanistan.

Prince Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was arrested while in possession of large amounts of drugs in the Lebanese capital.

One person has been killed and at least seven others have been injured in a series of shootings that rocked the US State of New York.

Two Turkish policemen and seven Daesh terrorists are reportedly killed in clashes in Turkey’s Diyarbakir.

Riyadh slams a prominent British lawmaker over the cancelation of a deal between Saudi Arabia and the UK.

Cross-border clashes between Pakistani and Indian forces leave two children dead and nearly two dozen others injured.

A bomb blast kills two security guards in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar.

An illegal Israeli settler attacks and injures a young Palestinian man in the northern West Bank.