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 third of the community kitchens in Gaza - one of the last lifelines - have been forced to shut down over the past two weeks/ The US has confirmed that a new system for providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza through private companies is being prepared, as Israel's blockade continues ...
Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent home from the schools in Shuafat refugee camp/ Armed Israeli security forces have forced the closure of three schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent ...
Hostages' families have urged Israel's prime minister to agree another deal with Hamas rather than expand the Gaza offensive/ Israel's prime minister has said there is "uncertainty" about the condition of three of 24 hostages previously believed to be alive in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Benjamin ...
Police block the entrance to the Israeli embassy during a protest in March/ The Israeli embassy in London was the alleged target of five Iranian men arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism, the BBC understands. Police have not yet confirmed that the embassy in Kensington was the ...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed during 13 years of civil war/ "These," says Dr Anas al-Hourani, "are from a mixed mass grave." The head of the newly-opened Syrian Identification Centre is standing next to two tables, covered in femurs. There are 32 of the human thigh bones on each ...
The strikes in Gaza City come as Israel says it is preparing to intensify its military campaign against Hamas/ At least 20 Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes on a crowded restaurant and market on the same street in Gaza City, medics say. Graphic videos posted on social media ...
The Houthis' top negotiator said their support for the Palestinian people in Gaza "will not change"/ A senior Houthi official has rejected US President Donald Trump's claim the Yemeni armed group "capitulated" when agreeing a ceasefire deal, saying the US "backed down" instead. "What changed is ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis that "we are on the eve of an intense entry into Gaza." Israel would, he said, capture territory and hold it: "They will not enter and come out." The new offensive is calculated, according to the spokesperson for the Israel Defense ...
Trump says Houthis told administration they 'don't want to fight anymore'/ Donald Trump said the US would stop attacking the Houthis in Yemen because the group had "capitulated", as Oman confirmed a "ceasefire" had been reached with the Iran-backed group for it to stop targeting shipping in the ...
Smoke rises over the city of Sanaa, on 6 May, following an Israeli air strike/ The Israeli military has said it "fully disabled" Yemen's main airport in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis. Tuesday's strikes targeted three civilian planes, the departures hall, the runway and a ...