Iran’s judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei on Friday said Tehran remained open to talks with the United States but would not accept what he called policy “imposition” under threats. “The Islamic Republic has never shied away from...
India’s weather office predicted above-normal temperatures across several parts of the country, warning on Friday that May could bring intense heatwave conditions along the coast and in the west. The South Asian country is no stranger to...
Dozens of activists on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla which was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off Crete disembarked on Friday in the Greek island, an AFP journalist saw. Escorted by Greek coastguards, around 175 activists, the...
The US Department of Justice on Thursday released video footage of the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last weekend as he charged through a hotel security checkpoint and shot a Secret Service officer. Jeanine Pirro, US...
Venezuela signed deals with US companies on Thursday in a bid to boost oil and gas production, the latest sign of thawing relations after Washington deposed leftist leader Nicolas Maduro. The South American nation is currently led by interim...
Japanese police arrested a man for allegedly incinerating his dead wife at the zoo where he worked, officials and local media said Friday, following the discovery of human remains. Police arrested Tatsuya Suzuki on Thursday evening on suspicion that...
A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck Nevada on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The tremor hit at a depth of about 12 kilometres (7 miles), around 19 kilometres southeast of Silver Springs. It struck at about 01:17 am (0817 GMT), the...
A US regulator voted Thursday to advance a proposal that would effectively bar Chinese labs from testing electronic devices ranging from smartphones to cameras for use in the United States. The move, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino reiterated that Iran will play at this year’s World Cup on Thursday as he addressed the global football governing body’s Congress in Vancouver. “Let me start by the outset, confirming straightaway...
France will host an international meeting in June dedicated to the long-touted two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the French foreign minister announced on Thursday. “On September 22 last year, France took the momentous...
A Florida man who has spent nearly 50 years on Death Row is to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday for the murder of a 13-year-old girl. James Hitchcock, 70, was convicted of the 1976 murder of Cynthia Driggers, his step-niece, and sentenced...
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to green-light funding most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), bringing an end to a record 75-day partial shutdown of the federal government. The Senate-passed bill, which is expected to be...
The first direct flight between the United States and Venezuela in seven years landed Thursday in Caracas, a new sign of a thaw after Washington deposed leftist leader Nicolas Maduro. The American Airlines flight took off at 10:26 am (1426 GMT) from...
The UK’s terrorism threat level was raised Thursday to “severe”, the second highest in the five-tier system, following an antisemitic terror attack the previous day in London, the interior ministry said. “The Joint Terrorism...
King Charles III paid respects to fallen US troops at a military cemetery on Thursday, the final day of a state visit aimed at healing ties between Britain and the United States strained by the war in Iran. By all accounts, the four-day visit has...
