TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Afghanistan and Taliban peace talk negotiators will hold their first direct session on Tuesday in Doha, officials said. - World news - A small group of negotiators from both sides had met in previous days to try to discuss how the substantive negotiations would take place.“The contact group from both sides’ delegations continued the discussion on rules and procedures...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – The defense ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call since the two regimes agreed to normalize ties. - World news - Bahraini state news agency BNA and a spokeswoman for Israel’s defense ministry said Bahrain’s minister of defense affairs, Abdulla bin Hassan Al-Nuaimi, and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz had spoken...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A group of activists toppled a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Place du Canada in downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon in the aftermath of a protest calling for the defunding of the police force. - World news - A handful of people climbed the monument, tied ropes around the statue and held up banners before unbolting it and pulling it down. The falling...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Russian Health Ministry said that the country will register the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on August 12. - World news - Oleg Gridnev says medical workers and the elderly will be given priority for immunization. The senior minister at the department, Mikhail Murashko, announced last week that a nationwide mass vaccination program is planned to begin in...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – The first consignment of humanitarian supplies from Iran was delivered to Lebanon early Thursday to help the Arab country deal with the consequences of a huge blast in Beirut that has killed, injured and displaced many citizens. - Society/Culture news - The shipment of humanitarian aid provided by Iran’s Red Crescent Society reached Beirut on Thursday morning with...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A Swiss pharmaceutical company has completed the first transaction under the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), the government in Bern said. - Economy news - The Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA) channel to facilitate imports of food and medicine to Iran started trial operations in January, helping supply Swiss goods to Iran amid US...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) - The prototype testing of Turkey’s first domestically designed medium-range missile engine TEI-TJ300 was carried out Friday in the Turkish Aerospace Industries' (TAI) compound with the participation of Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank. - World news - The Medium Range Anti-Ship Missile (MRASM) air-breathing engine TEI-TJ300, produced through the...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban group have agreed that Doha will be the venue for the first meeting in their peace talks, both sides said. - World news - The talks, known as the intra-Afghan dialogue, will be the first high-level meeting between the two sides after years of fighting. No date has been announced for the meeting, but it is expected to...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) - The Palestinian government has refused medical aid transported by air through Israel by the UAE, a report said. - World news - The UN-facilitated flight carrying coronavirus supplies was delivered by an Etihad Airways plane that flew from the UAE to Tel Aviv, a controversial move. “The UAE authorities did not coordinate with the State of Palestine before sending the...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – The first coronavirus case in war-torn Yemen was confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO). - World news - "The case is in isolation and treatment, all known contacts are being traced and quarantined," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Twitter on Friday. "WHO is working closely with (the health ministry) to ensure further rapid containment measures...