
ECONOMY
Iran MPs urge action over Saudi stake
Iranian lawmakers are calling for government and judiciary intervention after reports that a Saudi holding is maintaining a monopoly on production of cooking oil in Iran.

Iranian lawmakers are calling for government and judiciary intervention after reports that a Saudi holding is maintaining a monopoly on production of cooking oil in Iran.

Two branches of Russia’s Sberbank in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, are targeted by separate blasts.

Syria’s UN envoy says some 80,000 terrorists have so far infiltrated into Syria from Turkey and Jordan.

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter says Russia under President Vladimir Putin will continue to go “backward.”

Iran’s President says nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries have reached a sensitive stage.

A cyber attack against Polish flag carrier LOT grounds over 1,400 passengers.

The fatal MERS infection kills two more people in South Korea.

The wife of Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom tweeted a racist joke about President Barack Obama.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has allegedly threatened to shut down BBC over ‘biased’ reportage.

A new flotilla is headed for the Gaza Strip in a bid to break the Israeli-imposed blockade on the coastal enclave.

American Muslims hold a rally to show solidarity with families of the victims of a shooting at a black church in South Carolina.

Pictures show Muslims celebrating the holy month of fasting, Ramadan, all over the world.

Ukraine’s Right Sector party reiterates calls to disregard the Minsk ceasefire between Kiev and pro-Russia forces in the east.

Dozens of women hold demonstration outside Egypt's presidential palace against an anti-protest law.

Turkey’s Erdogan calls on the country’s political leaders to swiftly form a coalition government or face snap elections

Egypt’s former envoy to the Arab League is appointed as the country’s new ambassador to Israel.

The historic black church in South Carolina where a white man gunned down nine people on Wednesday has held its first service since the massacre.

The US admits that it has been fully aware of Turkey’s role in the transit of terrorists into Syria, but fails to name it as a sponsor of terrorism.