Iran's air defence network includes systems like the domestically built Bavar-373 and Khordad-15, designed to counter missiles and aircraft, in...
Edwin Wiek founded Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) facility in 2001 with two macaques and a gibbon. It now spans...
At least six people died, including a little girl, and almost 50 others were rescued after a migrant boat capsized...The boat capsized on Saturday night near the northern port city of Tripoli, the departure point for a growing number of people attempting a potentially lethal sea escape.
The deadly accident, weeks ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15, is not the first of its kind for the crisis-hit country.
Emmanuel Macron, who had never held elected office before becoming president in 2017, has weathered several crises throughout his presidential...Macron became the youngest president in French history at 39 when he saw off far-right leader Marine Le Pen in 2017
He is now looking to become the first French leader since Jacques Chirac in 2002 to win a second term
The question of whether Canadian corporate leaders should be bilingual received a lot of attention last fall, after the president...Under Canadian law, state-owned businesses are required to provide services in both French and English to clients
According to some French language proponents in Canada the government has failed to meet their expectations
- Turkey has been trying to negotiate an end to the conflict between the two countries, hosting meetings between Russian and...
Antonio Guterres’ trip comes as the Russia-Ukraine war enters its third month, with fierce battles continuing in Ukraine’s east
Scores of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers are said to be trapped in the besieged port city of Mariupol, with evacuation interrupted
Europe can get by without Russian gas for six months, but beyond that, the economic impact would be severe, a...Alfred Kammer, head of the IMF's European Department, urged countries in the region to take a series of steps to ease the blow, including reducing consumption to build up inventory
The International Monetary Fund projects that a total loss of Russian gas and oil supplies could cost the European Union three percent of GDP
- Regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia have resumed key talks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad after negotiations were suspended last...
Iran's Nour news agency confirmed a meeting attended by "senior officials from the secretariat of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and the head of the Saudi intelligence
Shiite-majority Iran and the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones across the region
Gunmen killed the bodyguard of a general from Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday in an attack on a checkpoint in...State television said "criminals" had opened fire at the checkpoint, located at the entrance to the provincial capital of Zahedan
IRNA said the security forces arrested those behind the attack
Russian forces, which withdrew from around Kyiv and the north of Ukraine earlier this month after being frustrated in their...Ukrainian authorities have vowed to fight on and drive the Russian troops from their land, but they also sought an Easter pause
‘Unfortunately, Russia rejected the proposal to establish an Easter truce,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine next week after a stop in Moscow...Guterres sent letters this week requesting these in-person meetings to try to regain the initiative for the UN
In part this is because the war has divided the UN Security Council permanent members: the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia
The Old City of Jerusalem, with its Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Armenian quarters, swarms with tourists and pilgrims, security forces,...Muslim and Christian Palestinians as well as rights groups accuse Israeli ultra-nationalist groups of trying to "Judaize" the district in the annexed eastern sector of the city.
And in what Palestinians see as a blatant provocation, Jewish hardliners have been stepping up visits to the esplanade.
