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Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2019 shows an Airbus A340 of Mahan Air approaching the Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. (Xinhua) Iran will lodge a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization over “harassment” of its passenger plane by two U.S. fighter jets over the Syrian airspace. TEHRAN, July 24 (Xinhua) — The Civil […]

Donald Trump says Joe Biden wants to abolish the suburbs. But polls show a different truth: The suburbs want to abolish Donald Trump. If current numbers hold, the Republican Party will suffer its worst defeat in the suburbs in decades — with implications reaching far beyond November. It was in the suburbs two years ago […]

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun answers questions at the National Assembly on Friday. Yonhap The government will revise regulations to prevent foreign nationals abusing South Korea’s medical system to be treated for COVID-19 at no cost, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said Friday. Speaking at the National Assembly’s interpellation session, Chung said that he is aware of […]

U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping attend a business leaders’ event inside the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017. (AFP Photo) Four decades after the United States established diplomatic ties with Communist China, the relationship between the two is at a turning point. Tensions have reached new heights on […]

A small boy wearing a mask sits on a suitcase at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. July 24, 2020.   –   Copyright  Michael Probst/AP As several countries on the continent saw an uptick in reported cases of COVID-19, European countries moved to make mask-wearing mandatory in public spaces. UK New rules on wearing masks in England came into effect […]

A worker pushes luggage outside Beirut international airport on its re-opening day following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beirut, Lebanon July 1, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]  BEIRUT/TEHRAN — Over 150 passengers on board an Iranian plane were evacuated on Thursday evening after its landing at People push trollies, as they head to board a plane at […]

Joe Biden | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joe Biden is beating President Donald Trump in Rust Belt states that were critical to Trump’s victory in 2016, according to a new poll. Biden leads Trump by wide margins in both Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a Fox News poll released on Thursday evening. Fifty percent of voters […]

Head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) Ali Erbaş visits Hagia Sophia Mosque as workers lay carpets in Istanbul, July 22, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  After 86 years of operating as a museum, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia will reopen on Friday as a mosque, a move that has become a cause of celebration for Muslims not only […]

The Long March 5 Y-4 rocket, carrying an unmanned Mars probe of the Tianwen-1 mission, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China, July 23, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a […]