US says Iran's top diplomat, Javad Zarif, can visit Iranian envoy in US hospital if Tehran frees US national; Zarif is pictured September 2, 2019 (AFP Photo/Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)/ Washington (AFP) - The State Department said Saturday that it would only allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...
Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (Kevin Hagen/Associated Press)/ UNITED NATIONS — The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders (all times ...
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said Friday that President Trump had offered to lift sanctions in order to meet. Mr. Trump denied that account. Brittainy Newman/The New York Times; Doug Mills/The New York Times/ UNITED NATIONS — President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said Friday that President Trump ...
The restriction is one of many the U.S. State Department has imposed in an effort for the Trump administration to pressure Iran to release an American prisoner; Trey Yingst has more details./ Foreign Minister Javad Zarif after he appeared to complain about the prohibiting Zarif from visiting a ...
The U.S. said Friday that Iran’s foreign minister can visit the country’s ailing U.N. ambassador in a New York hospital -- if his country agrees to release an American prisoner in exchange./ Mohammad Javad Zarif is in New York for the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, but the Trump ...
(Corrects to show U.S. offer was sent to Europeans, no Iranian meeting with U.S. officials took place) GENEVA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The United States sent a message to European leaders that it was willing to lift all sanctions on Iran, according to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said he ...
GENEVA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The United States offered to remove all sanctions on Iran in exchange for talks, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday upon returning to Tehran from the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to his official website. "The German chancellor, ...
The United States sent a message to European leaders that it was willing to lift all sanctions on Iran, according to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said he had rejected talks with Washington while punitive U.S. sanctions remained in place./ FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...
54AM [Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:37AM ]/ The US’ rejection of a request by Iranian foreign minister to visit Tehran’s ambassador to the UN who is in hospital in New York is “the outcome of” Israel lobby’s control of US foreign policy, says an American writer and former professor. Mohammad ...
34AM [Updated: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:50AM ]/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sits in the General Assembly Hall to listen to an address by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 25, 2019. ...
17AM [Updated: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:23AM ]/ This file photo shows Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-e Ravanchi. (Photo by AFP)/ The United States has rejected a request by Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit Iran's United Nations ambassador in a New York hospital. The US ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning by five missiles in the ...
The UN peacekeeping agency in southern Lebanon has said four of its soldiers have been injured in a rocket attack on one of its bases. The Italian soldiers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) base in Shama, south-west Lebanon, ...
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut/ A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...