
ECONOMY
Iran studying strategic Caspian canal
Iran says it is studying a plan to dig a canal to connect the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf.

Iran says it is studying a plan to dig a canal to connect the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf.

The UN says multiple Israeli demolitions in the occupied West Bank left 124 Palestinians homeless in a single day.

The US is considering sending 250 additional special forces to Syria, a Pentagon official says.

The SpaceX’s has successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on the platform of a drone ship for the first time.

A video shows the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in San Francisco's Mission District on Thursday.

North Korea says it has successfully tested an engine designed for an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Pro-Palestinian activists have held a protest against a UK firm, accusing it of benefiting from Israel’s crackdown against Palestinians.

The head of Turkey's arms factory is arrested on charges of trying to sell weapon designs to US.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton still lead their rivals in their respective parties, a new poll shows.

Iran’s Zarif says certain countries that “talk a lot” about fighting terrorism should be engaged seriously in anti-terror battle.

Russia says it has helped to free a US citizen in Syria after the US president asked his Russian counterpart to search for Americans in Syria.

Hillary Clinton cannot win the 2016 election “without blood money,” says an analyst.

John Kerry says local forces in Iraq will be trained on how to take back lands occupied by Daesh.

John Kerry’s call for Iran to help end wars in the Middle East could mean the Obama administration is trying to reach out to Iran to resolve the region’s problems, an American scholar says.

The US crime bill that former President Bill Clinton approved while in office led to a surge in the imprisonment of black people.

Italy has recalled its ambassador from Egypt in protest against the disappearance and subsequent death of a student in Cairo.

Conflicting reports are circulating over the fate of Syrian workers abducted by the Daesh terrorist group near the capital, Damascus.

Ukrainians in Kiev protest in front of a presidential office against corruption.