
POLITICS
Iran, India to expand ties: Rouhani
President Rouhani says Iran and India have decided to expand their ties from being mere trade partners.

President Rouhani says Iran and India have decided to expand their ties from being mere trade partners.

The US president announces the full withdrawal of America’s arms embargo on Vietnam during Asian trip.

Israeli police officers and several passersby violently beat up a young Palestinian man in Tel Aviv.

Dozens of Takfiri militants are killed as Iraq launches an offensive to retake one of the two remaining Daesh strongholds.

Amnesty International says it has found new evidence of US, UK and Brazilian cluster munitions used by Saudi forces in Yemen.

Twenty one Egyptians detained over participation in an anti-government protest go on hunger strike to express objection to their trials.

At least 17 schoolgirls are killed in a fire at their school dormitory in northern Thailand.

Barack Obama says he will not apologize to the Japanese over America's 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Amnesty finds banned UK-made munitions used against the Yemenis.

US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton says she will negotiate with rival Bernie Sanders "when he’s ready to talk."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on Israelis to stop “crying and moaning”, saying he can “lead the operations” after Moshe Ya’alon’s resignation.

The Greek parliament passes a new set of austerity measures amid widespread public protests.

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s opposition to Turkey joining the European Union is a desperate move to get the “Remainers” on board, a journalist says.

Egypt deploys a robotic submarine to search for an EgyptAir plane which went down in the southern Mediterranean.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi informs the Iraqi nation of the beginning of a process for the “liberation” of the Daesh-held Fallujah city.

Hillary Clinton’s once double-digit lead over Donald Trump has narrowed to just 3 points in a new poll.

Iran has captured two Daeshis in the country’s western province of Hamadan, says an intelligence official.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and actor Shahab Hosseini win the rewards for the best screenplay and the best actor at Cannes respectively.