Senior Iranian officials found themselves in hot water after the recent signing of an eagerly anticipated, five-party deal on the Caspian Sea. While the so-called Convention On The Legal Status Of The Caspian Sea that was signed on August 12 some of the most intense disputes between Azerbaijan, ...
TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Iran protested against Georgian police's "disrespect" for a number of Iranian female passengers at the Tbilisi airport to remove their scarves, Tasnim news agency reported on Friday. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said that Tehran has lodged its ...
In this July 20, 2018 photo, members of the rock band Arikayn, Afghan musicians Hakim Ebrahimi, center, and Soraya Hosseini, right, play with Kourosh Ghasemi, an Iranian drummer, at a furniture workshop in Eslamshahr, on the outskirts of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The band, made up of Afghan ...
The trade war between the US and China is expected to deflect some of the heat from Washington’s Iran sanctions away from India/ China’s refusal to buy US crude would leave India as the only major Asian buyer that can absorb the supplies./ NEW DELHI: The trade war between the US and China is ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 3M Co. has agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle allegations it knowingly sold defective combat ear plugs to the U.S. military without disclosing defects that limited the effectiveness of the hearing protection devices, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. ...
Poland's President Andrzej Duda says he refuses to sign a controversial reform as it "would have caused a large part of the population to not have representation in the European Parliament" (AFP Photo/Petras Malukas)/ Warsaw (AFP) - Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday vetoed a ...
Paying homage to mark the 50th anniversary of the original Mustang Cobra race car, which debuted at the NHRA Winternationals in 1968, the Blue Oval has unveiled a limited-edition Ford Performance 50th Anniversary Mustang Cobra Jet turnkey race machine. Capable of topping 150mph with quarter-mile ...
China plans to introduce floating nuclear power plants near disputed islands/ The Pentagon sounded a warning over China’s plans to introduce floating nuclear power plants on disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea, part of annual report assessing the nation’s military strength. ...
The Trump administration suffered seven major environmental setbacks in the past week as mounting losses in federal courts stall its ambitious deregulatory agenda. On Friday morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia the Environmental Protection Agency’s June 2017 decision ...
In the days since some U.S. sanctions on Iran snapped back into place, the signs of misery have been everywhere in Tehran’s commercial districts./ Stores are open but empty. Shopkeepers pass the time on their cellphones and exchange tales of economic woe: prices soaring, workers laid off, ...
year-old girl was stabbed 'multiple times ... five, six, seven times'/ (OKLAHOMA CITY) — A boy stood up and repeatedly stabbed a 14-year-old girl during an assembly at an Oklahoma high school on the first day of classes Thursday and she was airlifted to a hospital, a local sheriff’s spokesman ...
repeatedly broke down in an interview in which he attempted to explain some of his recent strange behaviour. The Tesla boss has admitted to taking pills to sleep and that he has had a difficult year, alternating between laughter and crying as he did. And he revealed that the stress of the year ...
Republican Chris McDaniel, running to represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate, got a history lesson on Wednesday night ― one he probably didn’t want. It came after McDaniel posted a revisionist tweet about Robert E. Lee that whitewashed the Confederate general’s view of slavery./ It’s a good ...
Baghdad grapples with ‘curse’ of US sanctions on Iran The Iraqi government has scant plans in place to deal with the first round of US sanctions, let alone the second/ An Iraqi peddler displays Iranian currency for sale in the capital Baghdad, on August 9, 2018. Caught in the crossfire between ...
A Chinese passenger jet slid off the runway as it landed at Manila airport in torrential rain, authorities said Friday, with all 165 people on board safely evacuated. The aircraft, carrying 157 passengers and eight crew, landed on its second attempt before skidding onto the grass, Civil Aviation ...
has suffered puncture wounds to his torso and legs, officials say. The unidentified victim was swimming on the Long Nook Beach in Truro, on Cape Cod, a peninsula that extends into the Atlantic Ocean, at approximately 4pm local time when the attack happened. According to the Truro Police ...
According to a statement issued by the late-singer's family, Franklin died at her home in Detroit the morning of August 16 after fighting an ongoing battle with pancreatic cancer. "Franklin's official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was ...
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the UK's most popular weedkiller: Rex Features/ A weed-killing chemical linked to cancer has been found in dozens of popular breakfast cereals and snack bars, including products marketed to children. , the active ingredient in the herbicide ...
The world is mourning Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76. In other heartbreaking news, a Colorado man, Chris Watts, has been arrested for allegedly killing his pregnant wife and their two daughters just hours after he went on TV to plead for their safe return. Before her death, who grossed ...
WASHINGTON — In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Four years earlier, the Bolsheviks had expelled the Romanov dynasty and established the world’s first Communist government. Western European intelligence agencies, ...
Summer is full swing, that means now is the perfect time to head to the great outdoors. But you can’t circumvent Yellowstone or climb the Rockies in any old vehicle. We’ve assembled 11 of the most-rugged, most-capable . Some that you can buy, some that you can build yourself. They range from ...
