Experts: More Women in Iran’s parliament signals shift in society
Iran President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter over the weekend to praise the fact that 17 women will be part of the country’s new… Read More ›
Iran President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter over the weekend to praise the fact that 17 women will be part of the country’s new… Read More ›
Rio de Janeiro – A regional judge on Monday ordered all telephone operators in Brazil to block WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by… Read More ›
US secretary of state to discuss truce with Jordan, Saudi FMs, UN special envoy. BELGRADE – US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Geneva… Read More ›
Friday’s 0.5% decline in the S&P 500 wasn’t enough to drop it into negative territory for April. The benchmark average finished the month up… Read More ›
The $28 billion merger between Halliburton and Baker Hughes is officially over. The companies announced Sunday that they terminated their merger agreement after it faced… Read More ›
Puerto Rico is going to default. In a television address made Sunday, Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the island’s Government Development Bank (GDB)… Read More ›
Washington – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is appealing to African-American voters to prevent the progress achieved under Barack Obama’s presidency from being “torn away”… Read More ›
New York, NY – Uber drivers in New York state have formed an association to strengthen their hand in dealing with the ride-sharing service,… Read More ›
Five hundred people were arrested in Germany after violent clashes broke out, authorities said. More than 1,000 people were protesting Saturday in Stuttgart, where… Read More ›
Protesters who stormed Baghdad’s Green Zone retreated Sunday but organizers say the challenge to Iraq’s leadership isn’t over yet. Hundreds, if not thousands, of followers… Read More ›
Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.’s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. “We… Read More ›
Founding ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo talks about war crimes trials and trying to deter genocide: past, present and future. BUILDING GLOBAL institutions is the… Read More ›
The question of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11 will remain in the arena of speculation and conspiracy theories. Since 2005, the families of the… Read More ›
Israel and pragmatic Sunni states preparing for the day radical sub-state groups target them. Last Wednesday, during the middle of the tranquil Passover vacation,… Read More ›
(Reuters) – Yahoo has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon, with most offers involving cash… Read More ›
Journalist Jason Rezaian made an appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night. Rezaian, 40, is a California-born Iranian-American who worked as The… Read More ›
For nearly three years, iPad sales have been falling on a quarterly basis, a disappointing run for a device repeatedly held up as the… Read More ›
United Nations – Iran asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to convince the United States to stop violating state immunity after the top… Read More ›
Omaha, NE – Warren Buffett said on Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway Inc is poised to do well no matter who wins the White House… Read More ›
Alexander Prokhorenko was battling to free the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. But he found himself surrounded by Islamic militants. He feared that he… Read More ›