Month: July 2021

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iranians protesting over water shortages cannot be blamed, and called on officials to deal with the water problem.

Lebanon is expected to sign a landmark agreement with Iraq next week to supply the fuel-strapped country with 1 million tons of Iraqi fuel to operate the power plants, a … Read More

The Taliban’s claim to hold 90 percent of Afghanistan’s borders is an “absolute lie”, the defence ministry said Friday, insisting government forces were in control of the country’s frontiers.

The Lebanese pound rose on the black market Friday, trading at LL21,450 against the dollar, after reports emerged a new government might finally be formed in the next two weeks.

Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzestan province, international rights groups said on Friday.

Electric vehicles more than doubled their share of new car sales in Europe in the second quarter, with hybrids also making gains, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) said Friday.

Senior officials from Baghdad were in Washington Thursday for preliminary talks on the US military presence in Iraq, ahead of an upcoming meeting between leaders of the two countries, the … Read More

Former UN rights chief Navi Pillay will lead the United Nations’ open-ended inquiry into “systematic” abuses in Israel and the Palestinian territories, it was announced on Thursday.