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  • All Iranians and their families in the UAE, Oman, China, Qatar and Kuwait benefit from social security services, said the director general for citizens’ affairs at the Social Security Organization…

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  • Seven people lost their lives (4 drowned and 3 hit by lightening in Golestan and Mazandaran provinces), due to Friday’s flash floods following torrential rains that also affected Semnan, Ardebil…

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  • South Africa said Thursday it will now provide free treatment to all people infected with HIV, regardless of the condition of their immune system. The country leads the world in infections. Before…

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  • High-risk groups in the society should get vaccinated against the flu, said the head of Iran Pharmacists Association ahead of the cold season in fall. “Given the fluctuations in the temperature…

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  • A senior lawmaker has voiced his support for a bill aimed at banning any exploitation of forest resources in the country for 10 years to give them time for rehabilitation.

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  • Pacific island states and countries failed on Friday to strike a deal to protect shrinking supplies of tuna and adopt cutbacks following a regional conference, sparking condemnation from…

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  • China’s Parliament on Saturday ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, which could help put the pact into force by as early as the end of the year.

    The standing committee of China’s…

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  • A swarm of locusts that has invaded Hamoun County in Sistan-Baluchestan Province and its renowned wetlands since late August has compelled local authorities to step up their game to control and…

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  • Almost all cities in the northern Mazandaran Province were battered by winds blowing at speeds of 130 km/hr as well as torrential rain that lasted for about an hour and half on Friday morning,…

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  • Deputy for welfare at the Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives, and Social Welfare said Tuesday that heads of households who force their children into truancy will be eliminated from the cash subsidy…

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  • A 22,000 sq meter of land in Tehran given to the Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO) in 2014 for establishment of a blood plasma refining complex by inviting private companies, has failed to…

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  • Men who want an early night could be showing a warning sign of heart problems, medics have warned.

    A study of 2,400 adults found that among men, bed times were significantly earlier among…

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  • In a meeting between Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi and Polish Health Minister Konstanty Radziwill in Warsaw on Thursday, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on…

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  • A passenger car fell through a giant hole that opened at a subway construction site in western Tehran on Thursday while another was suspended midway, leaving one person injured. The Peugeot 206…

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  • The Royan International Research Award (2016) for Research Excellence in Biomedicine was presented to its new laureate Hans Clevers, geneticist, physician, medical researcher and a professor in…

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  • China intensified its checks on people and goods arriving from Singapore on Thursday, as an outbreak of the Zika virus was confirmed to have spread to at least one person in neighboring Malaysia.…

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  • Situated off the Africa’s Atlantic coast, the twin island nation of Sao Tome and Principe was once the world’s leading producer of cocoa. Today, it is promoting itself as a tourist destination and…

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  • The formation of Tourism Investment Commission in Majlis (parliament) will help attract much-needed investment in Iran’s emerging tourism industry, according to a key player in the sector.

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  • British Airways has resumed direct flights to Iran after a nearly four-year suspension following the lifting of sanctions on the country.

    Describing Tehran as “an important destination” for…

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  • Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air China Ltd. plan to finalize a joint venture this month, sealing a deal to share revenue and coordinate routes after more than two years of negotiations, sources…

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  • The Energy Ministry has agreed to provide free water and electricity for 250 public restrooms across the country to solve the problem of restroom shortage.

    The ministry made the…

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  • Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization has registered 732 cases of death caused by medicine abuse in the last Iranian year that ended in March, including deaths due to poisoning by herbal drugs,…

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  • One person was killed and another injured seriously, when a car with two passengers was buried under debris following a landslide on Chalus-Karaj road near Tunnel 5 on Wednesday morning, said…

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  • Afghan residents in Iran are facing restrictions to enroll in high schools for several technical and vocational majors.

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  • After screening thousands of drugs already approved or undergoing clinical trials, researchers have identified two groups of compounds that can treat Zika virus infections in two ways: one stops…

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