ENERGY Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has inaugurated a series of giant projects in the country’s natural gas hub of South Pars – projects that have now put the Islamic Republic in the lead over production from the field which it shares with Qatar.
9 YEARS AGO SYRIA A monitoring group warns that the death toll from a bomb attack outside the Syrian city of Aleppo may rise.
9 YEARS AGO DEFENSE The army's chief commander says Iran is ready "to decisively counter any adventurism by ill-wishers.”
9 YEARS AGO FOREIGN POLICY US Vice President Mike Pence has begun his 10-day tour of Asia with a visit to Seoul.
9 YEARS AGO SPORTS The Iranian women’s national 3x3 basketball team has won a third match in a row at the Above the Rim Vol.1 tournament in Kazakhstan.
9 YEARS AGO MEXICO Javier Duarte, a former Mexican state governor wanted for corruption, was arrested in Guatemala on Saturday.
9 YEARS AGO YEMEN The allied forces gun down one Saudi trooper at the al-Mo’annaq military outpost in Jizan. Yemeni sharpshooters kill three more Saudi troops in a blitz against military bases in Najran.
9 YEARS AGO INTERVIEWS The constitutional referendum is meant to satisfy the power-hungry President Erdogan and tighten his grip on power, a political analyst says.
9 YEARS AGO SPORTS The Iranian men’s national beach volleyball A team advances to the semifinals of the 2017 Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships in Thailand.
9 YEARS AGO SOCIETY Two brothers are dead, and a third hospitalized following a shooting in Plant City, Florida.
9 YEARS AGO PALESTINE Hanan Ashrawi, a PLO executive committee member, says Israel’s far-right stance dominates the US government.
9 YEARS AGO ENERGY Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh says the country supports the extension of an agreement by global oil producers to cut outputs.
9 YEARS AGO PALESTINE The plant's closure could shut down the Gaza desalination plant, which produces clean and potable water in the territory where some 96% of water is undrinkable.
9 YEARS AGO EU The Italian coastguard says thousands more refugees have been rescued from boats off the coast of Libya on a second day of operations.
9 YEARS AGO TURKEY Over 55.3 million Turks are eligible to vote in the referendum, over 1 million of them first-time voters. The results are expected on Sunday evening.
9 YEARS AGO SOCIETY Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed on Saturday in Berkeley, California.
9 YEARS AGO SOCIETY The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports rises by more than two-thirds, says the Irish foreign minister.
9 YEARS AGO KOREAS North Korea’s latest missile test fails with the projectile exploding almost immediately after the launch, says South Korea and the US.
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