Tehran 03 Aug 2017 (IRNA) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a ceremony here on Thursday endorsed the Iranian president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, who won the majority of votes on May 19 presidential elections. Heads of the three branches of power in Iran, military officials, Ulema, academics and an array of...

Washington 02 August 2017 (TASS) US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday he planned to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in person in the Philippine capital Manila over the weekend. "I will be meeting face-to-face with Foreign Minister Lavrov this weekend on the margins of the (ASEAN and East Asia Summit)...

Islamabad 01 August 2017 Today Pakistani parliament re-elected ruling party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Group) candidate as Leader of the House by voting 221 in favour against Peoples Party candidate who obtained 41 votes, Pakistan Tehrik Inmsaf 33 votes and 4 votes went to Jamaat Islami candidate Sahibzada Tariq. Ruling Pakistan Muslim League is headed...

Montreal, Canada 01 August 2017 (QNA) Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti, Minister of Transport and Communication of Qatar said that in the 70 years of aviation history no country was subjected to a siege and a severe violation of international laws, like the one the State of Qatar was subjected to by the blockading countries. In...

Moscow 01 August 2017 (TASS) Two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets and an An-26 military transport plane that were on a training flight over the Baltic Sea’s neutral waters, were followed by a NATO F-18 fighter jet, the Russian defense ministry said on Tuesday. Two Spanish F-18 fighter jets took off from the Estonian airbase in...

Saudi Arabia 01 August 2017 (AlJazeera News) Hundreds of people have fled a town in Qatif governorate in eastern Saudi Arabia, where government forces are fighting Shia Muslim gunmen, activists and Saudi media reported on Tuesday. Fighting has intensified in recent days in Awamiya where authorities have been trying since May to tear down the...

Brussels 31 July 2017 (Xinhua) As part of a global celebration for the 90th birthday of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Chinese embassies in European countries recently held rounds of receptions to mark PLA's tremendous contribution to world peace in the last 90 years. With an attendance of thousands, the receptions across the continent offer...

Riyadh 30 July 2017 (MOFA Saudi Arabia) The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and the Arab Republic of Egypt held a meeting here today that comes within the framework of ongoing consultation on Qatar crisis as well as the need that Qatar...

Iran 29 July 2017 (AlJazeera News) Iran has vowed to press ahead with its missile programme, denouncing new US sanctions as "an effort to weaken the nuclear deal". Bahram Ghasemi, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, said on Saturday Tehran considers the US move as "hostile, reprehensible and unacceptable". "It's ultimately an effort to weaken the nuclear...

Moscow 30 July 2017 (TASS News) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will expel 755 US diplomatic staff and could consider imposing additional measures against the United States as a response to new US sanctions. Putin said in an interview televised on state television on Sunday that he ordered the move because he "thought...