An air quality forecasting system has been launched by Tehran Air Quality Control Company, a subsidiary of Tehran Municipality, to help predict air quality and concentration of pollutants in the…
The European Parliament was expected to adopt lower air pollution targets than it originally wanted on Wednesday.
The original set of ceilings, proposed back in December 2013 by the…
The Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization has proposed a bill to the government that would allow it to delegate the execution of "economic plans" in forests to local cooperatives.…
Canada has announced a plan to eliminate the use of traditional coal-fired electricity by 2030, but will offer some flexibility to the provinces.
Gone are NASA’s days of "Earth-centric climate change spending", with US president-elect Donald Trump, set to have NASA’s climate change budget slashed, his senior adviser on issues related to the…
West Africa’s Cote d’Ivoire has received 20 units of Iran Khodro’s Samand and Runnas in the past week, according to a report from Tehran. High-ranking officials from both countries took part in a…
Zamyad, a subsidiary of SAIPA, reported a 940% rise in its output compared to last year, according to a company release this week.
The company produced 47 pickup trucks during the first…
The latest statistics released about the sale of different passenger cars in Iran show that SAIPA’s Pride and Iran Khodro Company’s Peugeot 405 have had the largest market share in the first seven…
Since the signing of the historic Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in November last year, the Islamic Republic’s automotive industry has begun to adapt to a more liberal playing field, at least…
Four Iranian artists are among the winners of the 2016 Center of the World (COW) International Design Festival in Ukraine.
‘Le Sagouin’, a bold, harrowing novel by French writer, critic, poet and journalist Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) is now available in Persian.
Veteran translator Davoud Navabi, 81, has…
The play ‘Harvey’ written by the American playwright Mary Chase and directed by Melodi Aramnia is on stage at Iranshahr Theater in Tehran.
Written in 1944, the play is about an affable man…
The Fajr International Music Festival, Iran’s most prestigious music event, is to be held from January 11-20, 2017.
Tehran will host the 32nd edition of the Fajr music event one month early…
A broad majority of EU lawmakers have called for ceasing membership talks with Turkey due to its post-coup purges and President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian actions. But EU's…
Pilots for Germany's leading airline have announced a two-day strike. The news came after a Frankfurt court refused to allow the company an injunction against the industrial action.
Twelve Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi airstrike while riding in a pickup truck in the country's northwest early on Wednesday, residents said.
Locals said the passengers were…
Colombia's government says it will sign a new peace accord with FARC rebels on Thursday, after a previous deal was rejected in a referendum last month. The new revised agreement will be submitted…
Cambodia's UN-backed court has upheld life sentences for two former Khmer Rouge leaders convicted of crimes against humanity.
The former regime killed more than a million people during its…
The late-season storm has killed at least three people in Panama. Meteorologists also predicted it would be the first hurricane to make landfall in Costa Rica in 50 years.
Although it was…
Iraqi military medics rushed a man whose mouth had been blown apart by mortar shrapnel into their temporary field clinic on the eastern edges of Mosul.
They bandaged the wound and gave him…
Indian shelling across the frontier into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir hit a bus, killing at least nine people and wounding 11, Pakistani officials said, as tension between the nuclear-armed…
Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Tehran on Tuesday.
In the meeting, the Leader said Iran and Slovenia enjoy plenty of…
Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Affairs Hossein Zolfaqari announced that a terrorist cell was dismantled in the eastern parts of Iran on Monday night.
"Last night…
A parliamentary statement signed by over 220 lawmakers denounced the US Congress' recent moves to renew the Iran Sanctions Act and block aircraft sales to the Islamic Republic.
Iran's parliament speaker said United States House Speaker Paul Ryan may be trying to invite trouble for US president-elect Donald Trump by speaking against a multilateral nuclear agreement with…
