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TEHRAN — Domestically-made satellite is now a priority for the Iranian Space Agency (ISA), ISA Director Morteza Barari has announced, Fars reported. There are a number of satellite projects underway at Iranian academic and research centers, some of them will be finished in coming months, Barari said. According to a program provided for development of […]

Photo: Madinat al-Zahra Archaeological Site (CAMaZ) The remarkably well-preserved remains of the Caliphate city of Medina Azahara, a medieval Arab Muslim town near the Spanish city of Cordoba, was added to Unesco’s list of World Heritage sites on Sunday. The 10th-century Moorish site provides “in-depth knowledge of the now vanished Western Islamic civilisation of Al-Andalus, […]

Crowds began gathering in Mexico City earlier tonight to celebrate AMLO’s win. Andrés Manuel López Obrador won a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election, winning between 53% and 53.8% of the vote according to the “quick count” conducted by the National Electoral Institute (INE). The results of the conteo rápido as it is called gave Ricardo Anaya […]

Thousands march in protest of the immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, Los Angeles, CA., June 30. Thousands march in protest of the immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, Los Angeles, CA., June 30. Protestors in many U.S. cities denounced Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy. Some rallies grew so large that violence broke out in […]

Afghan security forces inspect the site of the blast [Parwiz/Reuters] At least 19 people, including 10 members of Afghanistan’s Sikh minority, have been killed in a suicide bombing in the eastern city of Jalalabad, according to officials. The blast on Sunday damaged shops and buildings around Mukhaberat square, said Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor’s spokesperson. The bombing came […]

File photo of Angela Merkel and Horst Seehofer. Photo: ODD ANDERSEN / AFP German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is unhappy with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deal with other EU nations to slash immigration, sources from his CSU party told AFP Sunday, a sign she may have failed to defuse tensions within her conservative alliance. Seehofer complained […]

The UAE is delivering vital food sid to drought-stricken Somalia. Mohammed ABDIWAHAB /AFP/ Drought-hit villagers in Somalia will receive 900 tonnes of food aid as part of an emergency relief mission being spearheaded by the UAE. Teams from the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan Foundation have started the aid effort in Puntland State, in north eastern […]

Photo: Proactiva Open Arms/Twitter UPDATED: A Spanish NGO said on Saturday it had rescued 59 migrants as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya and would dock in Spain after Italy and Malta refused access. The news comes a day after three babies were found dead and 100 more went missing in a shipwreck […]

Pantsir-S1 air defense system seen at Khmeimim airbase © Dmitry Vinogradov / Sputnik A group of unidentified drones has been shot down by Russia’s Air Defense units near Khmeimim Air Base in Syria, the Russian MoD has announced. No damage to the facility was reported. The objects were detected north-east from the military facility on […]

Members of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) arrive at the scene of an attack outside warehouses where ballots from the May 12 parliamentary vote were stored in the northern multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk early on July 1, 2018. Marwan Ibrahim / AFP Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – At least 21 persons were killed and injured Sunday in […]