Oil holds steady on hopes for U.S. stimulus agreementMELBOURNE: Oil prices were little changed in early trade on Thursday after U.S. lawmakers postponed a vote on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal, while rising infections fuelled demand fears.U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures slipped 1 cen....
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Three members of the Writers Association of Iran sent to prisonOn Saturday, September 26, 2020, Baktash Abtin, Reza Khandan Mahabadi, and Keyvan Bajan, three members of the Writers' Association of Iran, were summoned to the Evin Prison Prosecutor's Office on Saturday and transferred to evin prison to serve their sentences. These three have been convicted to a t....
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";City of Belqeys"; prosperous in late Sassanid, early Islamic eras: ExpertShahr-e Belqeys (";City of Belqeys";), situated in northeastern Iran, was prosperous during a span of time from the late Sassanid era to early Islamic times, a cultural heritage expert has said. ";Though [previous] archaeological excavations at nearby mounts and hilltops put the antiquity of Belqeys....
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What a Serial Traveler Thinks of IranIran's unpopular quest for nuclear energy has dominated news headlines for decades. This has left little room for reporting on less-discussed topics about the country. One of these is tourism. At a time of a pandemic, Iran continues to face grueling international sanctions and domestic divisions. Bu....
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Iran Through the Eyes of a TravelerFair Observer spoke to Polish travel writer Kamila Napora.
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UN atomic watchdog inspects disputed Iranian nuclear siteThe United Nations' atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday its inspectors have been able to visit the second of two disputed sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material in the past.....
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Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf sworn in as new ruler of KuwaitDubai:Kuwaits Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah was sworn in Wednesday as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country, propelled to power by the death of his half-brother after a long career in the security services. At age 83, Sheikh Nawaf is not expected to deviate from the diplomatic ....
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'The beauty of this show is that there isn't one clear enemy'Thrilling new Apple TV+ spy series Tehran tackles Iran-Israel relations, Danielle de Wolfe chats to actors Shaun Toub and Niv Sultan to find out more Transplanting the friction of real-world politics into the immersive sphere of a fictional drama is never an easy feat.It’s a delicate.......
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Police break up Calais migrant camp, biggest since 'the Jungle'CALAIS: French police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of 700 to 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling "Jungle" shantytown was broken up four years ago.Calais continues to attract migrants from the Middle East and Africa who set up makeshift camps along ....
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Saudi says broke up Iran-trained 'terrorist cell'RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has said it arrested 10 members of a "terrorist cell", some of whom underwent military and explosives training at Revolutionary Guard camps in Iran.Tehran on Tuesday denied the charges.Saudi security authorities said weapons and explosives stored at a house and a farm were seize....
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Iran rejects Saudi accusation it trained a 'terrorist cell'Iran rejected on Tuesday an accusation by Saudi Arabia that it had trained a terrorist cell.
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it had arrested 10 people earlier this month and seized weapons and explosives from a terrorist cell that had received training from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. Saudi se....
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Iran's new coronavirus cases exceed 450,000 - Health MinistryIran's confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed the 450,000 threshold on Tuesday with 3,677 infections identified in the last 24 hours, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV, as the Islamic Republic's death toll spiked to 25,986.....
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Saudi says broke up Iran-trained 'terrorist cell'Saudi Arabia has said it arrested 10 members of a "terrorist cell", some of whom underwent military and explosives training at Revolutionary Guard camps in Iran.....
International sanctions on North Korea and its nuclear weapons program don't appear to have stopped the regime from selling its arms overseas, importing large amounts of oil, or exporting coal. Our Kim Bo-ky....
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Huawei exec accuses US of misleading Canada in extradition caseVANCOUVER: Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers returned to a Canadian court on Monday to press for her release, arguing that the United States, by omitting key facts, blatantly misled Canada about her alleged crimes to secure her arrest.The defense started the five-day hearing by s....
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Jailed Iranian Human Rights Defender Ends Hunger Strike As Health DeterioratesJailed Iranian human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh has ended her hunger strike due to deteriorating health, her husband Reza Khandan said on social media on September 26. Sotoudeh had been on a hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison since August 11 to protest the risk that political prisoners in Ir....
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Trump at the UN: A Failure to LeadTrue to himself, US President Donald Trump completely failed to address any of the issues confronting the global community in his keynote speech to the 74th General Assembly of the United Nations. Instead, he used the platform to criticize China, to excoriate Iran, to boast of how big and dangerous....
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Macron accuses Lebanon leaders of 'betrayal' over govt failurePARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday upped the pressure on Lebanon's leaders to form a government in the wake of the Beirut port blast, saying their lack of progress represented a "collective betrayal".Lebanon remains mired in a political economic crisis with no end in sight after its p....
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Yemen's warring sides agree to swap over 1,000 prisonersDUBAI: The warring sides in Yemen's long conflict have agreed to exchange 1,081 prisoners, the United Nations mediator said on Sunday following talks in Switzerland.Yemen's government, which is supported by a Saudi-led military coalition, and Iran-backed Huthi rebels resolved to swap some 15,000 det....
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Huawei exec to accuse U.S of misleading Canada in extradition caseVANCOUVER: Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers return to a Canadian court on Monday to press for her release, arguing the U.S misled Canada about her alleged crimes to secure her detention on foreign soil.The defence, according to court filings, will say that the crux of the U.S ch....
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'New Cold War with China' demands U.S-Europe united front: GermanyBERLIN: Europe and the United States need to face up to a "new Cold War with China" together, regardless of who wins the White House in November, Germany's point man on transatlantic ties told AFP.With just five weeks to go until the U.S election, the German government's coordinator for relations wi....
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Qatar Airways says gets US$2 billion state aid after huge lossDOHA: Qatar Airways said Sunday it received US$2 billion (RM8.3 billion) in state aid to weather the coronavirus crisis, as it posted huge annual losses after enduring one of its "most difficult years".The firm said that the combination of the coronavirus pandemic, a boycott by Gulf neighbours and t....
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Opec turns 60 at 'critical moment' for coronavirus-hit oil marketLONDON: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) faces a critical moment in its 60-year history with the coronavirus crushing crude demand and prices, discord among its members, and threats from a world seeking cleaner fuels.Founded on Sept 14, 1960, by Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi ....
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Iran Guards unveil new naval ballistic missileIran's Revolutionary Guards on Sunday unveiled a new naval ballistic missile with a potential range of over 700 kilometres (430 miles), local media reported, following months of tensions with arch-enemy the United States.....
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IRGC showcases 3rd-generation naval strike ballistic missileThe chief commander of the Islamic Republic Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will never stop “manufacturing power” as the elite force unveils its third-generation naval strike ballistic missile. ....
White House ‘responsible’ for all crimes against Iranians: RouhaniIran’s President Hassan Rouhani has lashed out at the US administration over the imposition of inhumane sanctions and the so-called maximum pressure on the country, saying the White House is responsible for all the hostile measures and crimes against the Iranian nation.....
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Iranian president accuses US of 'savagery' after new sanctionsIranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Saturday of "savagery" after Washington imposed new sanctions on Tehran, and said Iranians should direct their anger at the White House.
"The Americans have inflicted tens of millions of dollars of damage on Iran," Rouhani said in tele....
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EU says sanctions relief on Iran will continueEuropean Council President Charles Michel on Friday said that sanctions relief under the Iran nuclear deal would continue to be effective, days after Washington's unilateral claim that UN sanctions against Tehran had been restored.....
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Iran's Persepolis defeats UAE's Sharjah to seal Group C top spot in ACLPersepolis of Iran football team defeated Emirati side Sharjah 4-0 on Thursday to seal top spot in Group C of the 2020 AFC Champions League. Persepolis and Sharjah needed a win to book their berth in the knockout stage but the Iranian team dominated their opponents from the start of the match.....
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Palestine's Abbas asks UN for international Mideast conference next year as Arab support dwindlesPalestinian president Mahmud Abbas appealed on Friday to the United Nations to arrange an international conference on the peace process, in the wake of Gulf Arab recognition of Israel.
In an address to the UN General Assembly, Abbas asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene the meeting ....
'Tehran' Is an Uncomplicated Look at Global Conflict: TV ReviewAn Israeli-produced series debuting on Apple TV Plus, "Tehran" is a show that looks at Iran through an alternately adversarial and nostalgic lens. The protagonist, Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), infiltrates the nation following an emergency landing of a passenger jet in the capital city; ....
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Yemen's terrifying road to Taez on brink of collapseTAEZ: Lorries filled to the brim with goods labour up and down the dangerously winding and precipitous road of Hayjat al-Abed, the mountainous lifeline to Yemen's third largest city.Unlike all other routes linking southwest Taez to the rest of the war-torn country, the road — with its dizzying dro....
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Fatah, Hamas say deal reached on Palestinian electionsRAMALLAH: Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas and their rivals Fatah in the occupied West Bank agreed Thursday to hold the first Palestinian elections since 2006, united by their opposition to Arab-Israeli normalisation deals.Polls will be scheduled within six months under a deal reached between Fatah lead....
In sign of frustration, US shortens sanctions waiver to IraqThe United States has extended a sanctions waiver that enables Iraq to continue importing gas from Iran but this time granting a significantly shorter waiver period, Iraqi officials and the U.....
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US says new Iran sanctions coming Thursday over rights violationsThe United States will slap new sanctions on a number of Iranian officials and entities, including a judge who sentenced Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari to death, US Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela Elliott Abrams said Thursday.....
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137 people nabbed for violating RMCO today: Ismail SabriPETALING JAYA: A total of 137 people were arrested today for violating the recovery movement control order.Twenty-five of them have been remanded and another 111 have been issued compounds. The last individual is out on bail.In a press statement issued today, Senior Minister (Defence) Datuk Seri Ism....
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US sanctions Iran's court system over execution of wrestler, other alleged abusesFor the first time, the United States will sanction foreign judges and a court for gross violations of human rights, as it targets Iran's Revolutionary Court system for the execution of a 27-year-old wrestler and other abuses, according to a U.S. official. ....
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Russian navy, airborne forces participate in 'Caucasus-2020' military drillsRussian servicemen took part in military exercises at the Raevsky range in southern Russia on September 23, during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills gathering China, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar troops, along with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. Up to 250 tanks and around 450 infantry combat v....
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Diplomats visit LoC, meet victims of Indian shellingAmbassadors, diplomats, defence attachés and the representatives of various countries and international organisations visited Jura Sector along the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday, Radio Pakistan reported.
During the visit, the diplomatic community was given a briefing on the latest situation ....
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Iran's coronavirus death toll rises above 25,000Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 175 to 25,015 on Thursday, the highest in the Middle East, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 436,319 in the country, according to the Health Ministry.....
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Iran accuses Saudis of shifting blame for 'crimes'Iran Thursday accused Saudi Arabia of distorting facts and shifting the blame for its own "crimes", after the Saudi king slammed the Islamic republic in a UN address.....
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U.S grants Iraq new 60-day waiver to import Iranian gasBAGHDAD: The U.S has granted Iraq a 60-day extension to a sanctions waiver allowing it to import Iranian gas for its crippled power grids, an Iraqi official told AFP on Wednesday.Baghdad relies on gas and electricity imports from its neighbour Tehran to supply about a third of its electricity sector....
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France presses at UN for new Lebanon governmentUNITED NATIONS: France on Wednesday urged international pressure to form a new government in Lebanon, as frustration grows with the pace of reform in the wake of the giant Beirut port explosion."The political forces have still not succeeded in agreeing to form a government," French Foreign Minister ....
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Arab leaders voice alarm at UN over Iran tensionsUNITED NATIONS: Arab leaders voiced fears Wednesday before the United Nations of new conflict in the region as tensions soar between Iran and the United States.The annual extravaganza of international diplomacy at the UN General Assembly has been turned into a virtual affair this year, with leaders ....
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Does Iran Pose a Threat to the Horn of Africa?Ever since 1979, Iran has pursued its interests in the Horn of Africa. To Tehran, this volatile and impoverished part of Africa has represented a region where it could gain strategic depth and undermine agendas of countries seeking to weaken and isolate the Islamic Republic.
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Saudi King Salman targets Iran during debut at United NationsSaudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz took aim at Iran during his debut on Wednesday at the annual United Nations meeting of world leaders, calling for a comprehensive solution to contain Riyadh’s regional rival and stop it from getting weapons of mass destruction. He said Iran has ex....
