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On the evening of Monday, July 15, while traveling to Zanjan for the Muharram religious mourning ceremony, the ex-president's chief security officer noticed that the air conditioner in his primary ...

Urgent evacuation orders have been issued for five communities south of Athens as a massive wildfire, fueled by strong winds and intensified by Greece's first summer heatwave, continues to burn near ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the Palace of Independence in Minsk, the residence of the Belarusian leader. The Russian head of state will take part in the meeting of the Supreme ...

Flash floods triggered by intense pre-monsoon rains swept through parts of northwest Pakistan on Friday, claiming the lives of at least seven tourists, according to local authorities. The nationwide ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck west of Tongatapu, the main island of the Kingdom of Tonga, according to the Australian State Geological Bureau. It said the epicenter of the tremors was located 340 ...

Wall Street resumed its advance on Thursday, pushing the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closer to record closing highs as the Israel-Iran cease-fire continued to hold and a raft of economic indicators ...

An Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jet has been shot down over the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, News.az reports citing semi-official Fars News Agency. Iranian state media claim this as the fourth ...

The global energy market has been transfixed by the conflict between Israel and Iran, including the possibility the US may decide to join the assault. So far, while crude has spiked due to the ...

Iran Army air defense on Wednesday announced that it shot down an advanced Israeli Hermes drone over eastern Isfahan, News.Az reports, citing Mehr news agency. The footage released by the Iranian side ...

Armenia’s Speaker of Parliament, Alen Simonyan, announced that an attempted coup and terrorist attack targeting the country’s government has been thwarted. Simonyan compared the foiled plot to the ...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced that nearly 93,000 children under the age of 10 received a polio vaccine in Gaza on Monday. This vaccination effort comes after Israel and ...