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Iran could be a “reliable, secure and long-term” supplier of gas to Europe, Tehran’s industry minister Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh said on Monday. “We don’t want to compete with Russia. But we know that Europe’s demand for gas is increasing and would like…

Iran will need 30,000 of its new generation centrifuges to meet domestic fuel demands, far more than the current number, its nuclear chief said Sunday. Ali Akbar Salehi’s comments came just days after the latest round of international talks in Vienna…

Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence handed to a former US Marine convicted of espionage, with the penalty being cut to 10 years in jail, media reported Sunday. Amir Hekmati, a dual US-Iranian citizen, was arrested in August 2011,…

A man was charged with attempted murder following a hammer attack on three wealthy female Emirati tourists in their luxury London hotel room, police said. The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday in a room on the seventh floor of the four-star…

10 April 2014 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced alarm at the denial of…

10 April 2014 – Speaking out strongly against yesterdays deadly car bomb attacks on a busy shopping street in the…

9 April 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) said today it managed…

A bomb tore through a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, police said, the latest violence to hit government peace talks with the Taliban. The blast took place around 8:00 am (0300 GMT) at the wholesale…

8 April 2014 – While noting that the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provided assistance to a record 4…

8 April 2014 – With the recent discovery of a new case of polio in a six-month-old boy in Iraq,…