
ECONOMY
Iran cancels airport deal with France's Bouygues
Bouygues had signed a memorandum of understanding in January 2016 to build and operate a terminal at IKIA to handle 20 million passengers a year.

Bouygues had signed a memorandum of understanding in January 2016 to build and operate a terminal at IKIA to handle 20 million passengers a year.

Taliban militants seized control of the Qala-e-Zal district, near the Afghan city of Kunduz, after a day of heavy clashes with security forces there.

The former Afghan president says Daesh is Daesh is ‘a US product’ and Washington uses the terror group as a tool in his homeland.

The terror group calls on adherents in the US to take advantage of laws that allow people to buy firearms without background checks.

A senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran equates defending Syria and Iraq with defending itself.

Mahan Air is the target of the measure which would require the Trump administration to provide Congress with a list of all airports where the commercial carrier has landed.

An Iranian university lecturer says the live debates between Iran’s presidential hopefuls reflect the reality that elections are meaningful and important to the Iranian people.

An activist says the mass Palestinian hunger strike is a fight against Israel’s unjust treatment of political prisoners, who are merely “asking for basic human rights.”

A Russian senator says a US bill which allows the navy to control Russian and other foreign ports is a “declaration of war.”

US and European police have arrested nearly 900 people thought to be connected to an underground child pornography network.

Heavy downpours have hit different parts of Iran less than a month after flooding and landslides that claimed dozens of lives in the country.

The campaign of leading French presidential candidate Macron says it has been the victim of a “massive and coordinated hacking attack” just before the election.

Federica Mogherini says the US is “losing its leadership” position in the world, presenting an "opportunity” for the EU.

A police officer was shot in the face at a Motel in Massachusetts.

The European Union’s high representative says the Iran deal is working and has to stand.

Kazakhstan’s authorities offer to provide Brazil with uranium or any other type of fuel.

British security services say they have identified 350 potential terror threats from among nationals who have fought alongside Daesh terrorists in Syria.

An American analyst says the enmity between the US and North Korea is that Washington is looking to “monopolize” nuclear weapons.