By Sheida Eslami
On the surface, the recent action by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department to register the title of Press TV under the “Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme” (FITS) appears to be an…

By Sheida Eslami
On the surface, the recent action by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department to register the title of Press TV under the “Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme” (FITS) appears to be an…

The United States Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly over a video in which he and other Democrats urged soldiers to defy “illegal orders”.
The video was released last week. It features six Democratic…

Iran’s ratio of nurses to hospital beds has fallen well below the Health Ministry’s own standards, with some provinces facing what offic …

Nigeria’s government is making “no meaningful effort” to rescue more than 250 children abducted from a Catholic boarding school in the central state of Niger last Friday, the main Catholic cleric in the region has told the BBC.
But Bishop Bulus…

A woman thought to be dead, who was about to be cremated at a Buddhist temple in the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, has been found alive by staff.
Pairat Soodthoop, general manager of the Wat Rat Prakhong Tham temple, was “startled” to hear a…

TEHRAN – Conservation teams in the UNESCO-registered Susa have completed a project to safeguard and protect 253 architectural remains from the Achaemenid-era Apadana Palace, the head of the Susa World Heritage base said on Tuesday.
Ali Bouyeri…

Why it matters:
Handicrafts and ecotourism could reverse rural migration, empower women (who make up 80% of the sector), and position Iran as a global leader in the fast-growing halal tourism market.
The Big Picture:

A long-inactive volcano in northern Ethiopia unexpectedly erupted on Sunday, sending up plumes of volcanic ash and dust, which have since spread across continents and disrupted flights in India and the United Arab Emirates.
No casualties were…

According to the judiciary’s media center, Tehran prosecutors accused the former lawmaker of “spreading false information” about the content of a letter Pezeshkian sent to the Saudi crown prince.
Earlier this week, the foreign ministry said…

The Wall Street Journal has spent months withholding a major corruption exposé on Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to US journalist Tucker Carlson.
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