French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stepped down on Tuesday to focus on running for president in next year’s election and was replaced by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
Valls resigned…
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday she would accept the result of an impeachment vote against her this week but indicated she would not step down now as demanded by opposition…
Libyan pro-government forces say they have driven the self-styled Islamic State terrorists out of the last neighborhood of Sirte, declaring the battle for control of the city is over.
…
Syrian government forces gained more ground in the battle for Aleppo on Monday, as Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that sought a seven-day truce in the city.
Three…
Donald Trump has nominated former opponent Ben Carson as his secretary of housing and urban development.
In a statement from his transition team on Monday, Trump said he was “thrilled to…
Uzbekistan’s acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has won a tightly controlled presidential election following the death of longtime ruler Islam Karimov.
Mirziyoyev, the Central Asian…
Two Iranian ensembles, the Iran Philharmonic Choir and Naamira Choir, will perform a joint concert at the 32nd edition of the Fajr International Music Festival, Iran’s most prestigious music event…
The veteran Iranian actor/director Reza Fayazi will be honored at the 23rd International Children and Young Adults Theater Festival in Hamedan, Iran, next week.
According to the festival’s…
Swiss authorities have seized nine antiquities looted from Palmyra and ancient sites in Libya and Yemen at the Geneva Free Port.
The artifacts, which range from the fourth century BC to the…
The first part of Bob Dylan’s planned 3-volume memoir titled ‘Chronicles: Volume One’ has been translated into Persian and will hit the bookstores in Iran in winter.
Theater director Mohammad Qasemi is performing his play based on true stories in a water pool.
‘The Bluest Celestial on Earth’, written, designed and directed by Qasemi, 37, is underway at…
Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh will attend a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC producers in Vienna on Dec. 10 which is aimed to thrash out the details of a historic supply-cut deal struck last…
The extreme cold that set in a fortnight ago across the country caused 9.4 trillion rials (over $240 million at market exchange rate) in damages to orchards in Mazandaran, according to governor of…
Trump outlines business tax policy in a series of six tweets sent over a span of 45 minutes. President-elect Donald Trump is planning to tax companies who leave the US as a form of “retribution…
The Central Bank of Iran should take quick measures for regulating fintech firms to prevent potential problems in future, said the director of IT Center of Export Development Bank of Iran, noting…
The use of real-estate applications are growing in Iran and realtors, unlike users, are not happy with the impact of the technology on their income.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is moving toward allowing trade with Iran, Russia and China in local currencies, as he continues his efforts to strengthen the falling lira…
The past two weeks saw the US dollar surge to a historic high in Tehran’s market, unleashing the usual panic emblematic of all currency upheavals elsewhere.
The occasion was reminiscent of…
Central Bank of Iran and Shaparak Company, Iran’s payment network supervisor, have required all payment service provider companies to use the newly-launched “Peyvand system” instead of the low-…
National Iranian Tanker Company is expanding operations and services overseas. The state tanker company has leased 20 tankers and vessels to foreign companies since the easing of international…
Japan has become an importer of Iran's gas condensates, following in the footsteps of its neighbor South Korea, the managing director of Parsian Gas Refining Company said.
Iran and Armenia explored grounds to boost collaboration in energy projects in a meeting between Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian and his Armenian counterpart Ashot Manukyan in Tehran. Speaking on…
Fifty foreign oil and gas companies have so far submitted documents to the National Iranian Oil Company in the prequalification round for dozens of oil and gas tenders, Ali Kardor, the NIOC…
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has expressed interest in investing in a Bulgarian nuclear power project, Bulgaria's government said on Monday. Sofia plans to privatize the Belene…
For the three titans of Latin American oil -- Pemex, PDVSA and Petrobras -- last week’s OPEC-driven price rally will not be enough to halt a slow descent from the ranks of international crude…
