
ECONOMY
UK's Tata confirms 1200 job cuts
The crisis in UK's steel industry has entered a new phase with Tata Steel announcing 12,00 job cuts.

The crisis in UK's steel industry has entered a new phase with Tata Steel announcing 12,00 job cuts.

Two leading European companies are set to buy stakes in Iran’s biggest cellular operator, Mobile Telecommunication Company (MCI), its head Vahid Sadouqi says.

Turkey identifies a new suspect in the recent deadly bombings in the capital, Ankara.

A group of South Koreans have arrived in the North for a brief reunion with their relatives.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit to compel the CIA to turn over basic details about the US program of clandestine drone warfare.

Sen. John McCain said US military leaders suggested leaving 20,000 US troops in Afghanistan after 2016.

A senior Syrian diplomat says his country’s army forces are preparing to retake the strategic city of Aleppo from foreign-backed militants.

Germany’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, mistakenly sent $6 billion to a client in the US in a rare fat-finger error of such magnitude, international media reports say.

Japan confirms first cancer case related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

South African students protest government plans to raise university tuition fees.

The US is reacting “defensively” to Russia's campaign against Daesh terrorists in Syria, says an analyst.

A Western news agency has been offering updated tallies of the victims of a crush near Mecca in Saudi Arabia, contradicting the official Saudi figure.

Saudi military aircraft have carried out a fresh round of aerial attacks against several areas across Yemen.

Military hardware known as “kamikaze” robots debuts in military exercises by the Iranian Army.

Israeli forces arrest Hassan Yousef, a senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas.

Amnesty International says the treatment of refugees in Croatia and Slovenia is unacceptable.

The destruction of Daesh (ISIL) is more urgent than the overthrow of President Assad, says Henry Kissinger.

The joint commission established to oversee the implementation of the Iran-P5+1 agreement wraps up its first meeting in Vienna.