
POLITICS
‘Focus on people should be policy not slogan’
Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif calls on presidential candidates in the country to always pursue a “people-oriented” policy instead of raising popular slogans just before polls.

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif calls on presidential candidates in the country to always pursue a “people-oriented” policy instead of raising popular slogans just before polls.

Major banks are planning to move at least 9,000 jobs out of the UK as a result of Brexit, according to a new report.

Here is a brief look at Press TV newsroom's headlines from 18:00 GMT, May 8, to 08:00 GMT, May 9.

Iran thrashes Afghanistan at the sixth edition of Asian Men's & Women's Beach Handball Championship.

Climate negotiators are in Germany to draft an executive guide for the Paris climate deal, amid a threat by the US to pull out from the landmark pact.

Police in France evacuated about 1,000 refugees, mostly Afghans and Sudanese, from a tent camp in northeast Paris.

Washington is fanning the flame of war on the Korean Peninsula by firing up the ideological battle between Seoul and Pyongyang, a political analyst says.

The representatives of Palestinian hunger strikers say footage released by the Israeli regime purportedly showing a protest leader breaking his fast is “fake.”

Joseph Dunford is in Israel to discuss regional issues with Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

The national Iranian volleyball team has secured a spot in the FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship.

Israel has hit back at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently compared Israeli practices against Muslims to apartheid.

A Turkish official says his country and Qatar reached an agreement on the terms of a deal to set up a joint military base in Doha.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a report that the number of anti-Muslim incidents increased 57 percent in 2016.

Campaigning for the presidential election in Iran continues as the six presidential hopefuls travel across the country and make passionate stump speeches.

Iranian football club Persepolis has confirmed its place in the knockout phase of the 2017 AFC Champions League.

The Christian governor of Indonesia’s capital is sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy against Islam.

Iran’s defense minister says Saudi Arabia has now grown so miserable as to ally itself with Israel against the Islamic Republic.

A group of US appeals judges are reviewing Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, after it was blocked in federal courts.