Iran inks rail deal worth €2.5b with Russia
TEHRAN- Iran and Russia signed a €2.5-billion deal on joint manufacturing of passenger and cargo wagons in Iran, IRIB reported. The deal was inked between Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO) and Russia’s largest manufacturer of locomotives and rail equipment, Transmashholding, in Tehran on Monday. Iranian Industry, Mining, and Trade Minister Mohammadreza Nematzadeh […]
US hits Venezuelan President Maduro with financial sanctions
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on US hits Venezuelan President Maduro with financial sanctions
The Trump administration slapped financial sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday after a weekend election that gave the South American country’s ruling party virtually unlimited powers. The sanctions freeze any assets Maduro may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with him. They were outlined in a brief notice by […]
Continue reading …Under a deal between Hezbollah and Syrian opposition groups, 9,000 fighters and their relatives will return to Syria.
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on Under a deal between Hezbollah and Syrian opposition groups, 9,000 fighters and their relatives will return to Syria.
Convoys of buses are waiting to transfer thousands of Syrian fighters and refugees from Lebanon’s border region into rebel territory in Syria in exchange for Hezbollah prisoners. Under a local ceasefire between the opposition fighters and Hezbollah, about 9,000 fighters and their relatives were to leave on Monday, in exchange for eight Hezbollah fighters held […]
Continue reading …Iraqi army dismantles 97 IEDs in liberated areas in Anbar
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on Iraqi army dismantles 97 IEDs in liberated areas in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An army force has dismantled 97 improvised explosive devices (IED) in the liberated areas of Anbar governorate, Alsumaria News reported on Monday. A Security source told Alsumaria that a force from the 8th army division managed to find 52 IEDs in several areas in Ramadi, while another force found 45 IEDs east of […]
Continue reading …Germany calls for countermeasures against ‘illegal’ US sanctions on Russia
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on Germany calls for countermeasures against ‘illegal’ US sanctions on Russia
The German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries on Monday slammed the latest round of US sanctions against Russia as being “against international law.” The planned new US sanctions are set to hit German and European companies which have business interests in Russia. “We see that as being against international law, plain and simple,” Zypries, of the […]
Continue reading …ISIS claims attack on Iraq embassy in Kabul
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on ISIS claims attack on Iraq embassy in Kabul
ISIS claimed it had attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday, as a series of explosions and the sound of gunfire shook the Afghan capital in a continuing assault. A security source told AFP that a suicide bomber had blown himself up outside the Iraqi embassy. “Civilians are being evacuated” from the area as the […]
Continue reading …Maduro claims Constituent Assembly election victory
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on Maduro claims Constituent Assembly election victory
Officials say eight million people cast ballots in election to pick a new legislative body to rewrite constitution. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has claimed victory in an election to pick a controversial new constitution-writing body that prompted deadly violence and international condemnation. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced on Sunday that more than eight million people […]
Continue reading …Senior al-Qaeda leader surrenders to Yemeni security forces
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on Senior al-Qaeda leader surrenders to Yemeni security forces
Khaled Abdelnabi, a prominent leader of Ansar al-Sharia, the local branch of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, voluntarily turned himself in to security forces in the Yafa’a district of the Lahij governorate. According to local Yemeni news reports, Abdelnabi turned himself in on Saturday night. Jalal al-Rabihi, the commander of the emergency unit in Yafa’a, […]
Continue reading …Sweden’s economic growth is ‘crazy strong’: analysts
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on Sweden’s economic growth is ‘crazy strong’: analysts
A surge in the pace of growth in the second quarter of 2017 means Sweden’s GDP expanded by a whopping 4 per cent from a year earlier, leaving Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson rejoicing over growth some analysts called “crazy strong.” Sweden’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2017, fresh […]
Continue reading …N. Korea ‘years and years away’ from viable nuclear device – Russian Deputy FM
31 July, 2017 Comments Off on N. Korea ‘years and years away’ from viable nuclear device – Russian Deputy FM
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said the threat posed by North Korea should not be exaggerated and that a rational solution should be found by Russia and the United States. “I think we are years and years away from a moment they can weaponize,” Ryabkov told ABC’s ‘This Week.’ Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia […]
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