Category: 2. World

The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in response to a question from journalists on Wednesday regarding the US President’s claim yesterday about negotiations with Iran that “There is currently no talks underway…

The Labor Department only published the so-called continuing claims data for the weeks ending October 11 and 18. The government would have surveyed businesses and households for October’s employment report during the week ending October 18.

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The family of a Muslim man, who was lynched by a Hindu mob in India’s Uttar Pradesh state in 2015, say they will continue fighting for justice after authorities recently moved to drop all charges against the accused.

Mohammad Akhlaq, then 50, was…

A portrait by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was sold for $236.4m (£179m) in New York on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction.

Six people took part in a 20-minute bidding battle for the Portrait of Elisabeth…

According to Mehr News Agency, Iran is aiming to boost its commercial presence in Iraq, with the Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce setting a three-year goal to increase bilateral trade to $20 billion, Chairman of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of…

Two Miss Universe judges have resigned days before the annual beauty pageant, with one of them accusing organisers of rigging the selection process.

Lebanese-French musician Omar Harfouch, who announced his resignation from the eight-member jury…

A huge fire broke out in the city of Oita, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, damaging at least 170 buildings and forcing residents to evacuate, authorities said.

Aerial footage showed the scale of the blaze, said to be the size of seven football…

Nine people have been killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Russia launched more than 470 drones and 47 missiles in the “brazen attack”, he wrote in a post on Telegram.

Three districts of…