Tehran, 04 August 2019 (Xinhua News) Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday captured a foreign oil tanker for carrying "smuggled" fuel in the Gulf, official IRNA news agency reported. The vessel was carrying 700,000 liters of "smuggled" fuel when it was seized, IRNA said. The seized tanker was transferred to Iran's southern port...

US, 04 August 2019 (AlJazeera News) At least nine people have been killed and 27 wounded in a mass shooting in Dayton, in the US state of Ohio, according to police. The incident in the early hours of Sunday came just hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, killed at least 20 people...

Manila, 30 July 2019 (PNA) The Philippines and Turkey are eyeing a stronger engagement on the field of defense, economics, and education, following the first bilateral meeting between Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and his Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, in Bangkok on Tuesday (July 30). The two met for the first time...

Seoul, 30 July 2019 (Yonhap) Japan is highly likely to pass a bill later this week to remove South Korea from its "whitelist" of trusted trade partners, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, in what would be an additional economic retaliatory measure in a row over wartime forced labor. "The bill is expected to be passed...

Caracas, 27 July 2019 (TASS) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has expressed gratitude to specialists from Russia, China, India and Turkey for assisting in developing and restructuring the Latin American country's economy. "I thank for all the assistance provided to us by China, for advice from experts who help us implement our economic program. I thank...

Vienna, 28 July 2019 (TASS) A session of the JCPOA Joint Commission has begun at Palais Coburg in Vienna at the level of political directors, TASS reports from the site. The sides are expected to look into how the situation has changed since their previous meeting as well as discuss prospects for saving the deal....

Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 2019 (Xinhua) The rise of emerging markets and developing countries, represented by the BRICS countries, has bolstered a more multi-polar world, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Friday. At the Formal Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Wang also said BRICS cooperation is...

Washington, DC - Jane's Defence Weekly Washington will spend between USD 500 million and USD 600 million to shift part of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter supply chain out of Turkey, as part of its plan to remove the nation from the program. Five days after Turkey accepted the Russian S-400 surface-to-air (SAM) long-range air defence...

Doha The Visa Support Services Department of the Ministry of the Interior in cooperation with the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs organized a seminar recently on the authorization of manpower agencies to bring in domestic workers through Qatar Visa Centres abroad. Maj. Abdullah Al-Muhannadi, Director of Visa Support Services Department at the...

Jakarta, Jane's Defence Weekly The Indonesian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has called for greater levels of synergy between the government, military, and the national defence industry in efforts to improve indigenous military production capability. The MoD said in a recent press release that the requirement for enhanced collaboration is one of several priorities outlined for...