This image taken from the seized website presstv.com announces that the site was seized by US authorities on June 22, 2021 US law enforcement seized control of the websites of two Iranian state-controlled news groups, Press TV and Al-Alam, and of the Al-Masirah TV channel of Yemen's Houthis, statements posted on the websites showed on […]
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (on screen) and Tamayo Marukawa, minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, speak during a five-party meeting at Harumi Island Triton Square Tower Y in Tokyo on June 21, 2021. (RODRIGO REYES MARIN / POOL / AFP) MANILA / ISTANBUL / JERUSALEM / SINGAPORE / YANGON / TEHRAN / KUWAIT CITY / HANOI / SYDNEY / NEW […]
This May 17, 2017, photo shows the No 4 reactor (right) of the Kansai Electric Power Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture. (PHOTO / STR / JIJI PRESS / AFP) TOKYO – The head of a major inquiry into Japan’s nuclear disaster and a former senior Cabinet adviser have sounded alarm over plans this week […]
An Afghan army Humvee patrols in Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 21, 2021. Taliban fighters took control of a key district in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province Monday and encircled Kunduz, the provincial capital, police said. (ABDULLAH SAHIL/AP) Civilians in Afghanistan have taken up arms to push back against the Taliban as the militants […]
An undated handout photo received from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies on April 19, 2018 shows a mass bleaching event of coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. (MIA HOOGENBOOM / ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES / AFP) Possible moves to list Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the “in danger” […]
Kuwaiti MPs hold a parliamentary session at the Gulf emirate's National Assembly in Kuwait City on June 22, 2021. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP) KUWAIT – Kuwait's parliament approved the 2021-22 state budget in a tense session that managed to temporarily break a deadlock with the government that has blocked reforms in the Gulf state. But […]
A view shows traffic on Azadi street in Iran's capital Tehran on April 20, 2021. (PHOTO / AFP) DUBAI – Iran accused the United States on Tuesday of interference for saying its presidential election on Friday was neither free nor fair, Iranian state media reported. A US State Department spokesman said on Monday the United […]
In this March 2, 2019 photo, Kim Yo-jong, sister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) top leader Kim Jong-un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam. (JORGE SILVA / POOL / AP) SEOUL – A senior Democratic People’s Republic of Korea official ridiculed American hopes for talks on […]
(From left) US special representative for DPRK issues Sung Kim, the Republic of Korea (ROK)' special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs Noh Kyu-duk and head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Takehiro Funakoshi pose for a photo during their trilateral meeting at a hotel in Seoul, ROK, June […]
A health worker administers a shot of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a man during a mass vaccination program in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 21, 2021. (DITA ALANGKARA / AP) Expanding the partnership between China and Indonesia on vaccine production is crucial to Southeast Asia's battle against the pandemic, public health experts said. Indonesia is currently […]
This undated handout photo received on April 6, 2020 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, shows coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. (PHOTO / AFP) CANBERRA – The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage Sites a UN committee […]
Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi is pictured during his first press conference since his election on the weekend in Tehran, on June 21, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) DUBAI – President-elect Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday Iran's foreign policy priority would be improving ties with Gulf Arab neighbors, while calling on Saudi Arabia to halt its […]
A member of the transgender community gets inoculated with the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Mumbai on June 20, 2021. (SUJIT JAISWAL / AFP) NEW DELHI / KABUL / SYDNEY / HANOI / COLOMBO / PHNOM PENH / KUALA LUMPUR / JAKARTA / BISHKEK / ULAN BATOR / BANGKOK / DHAKA / VIENTIANE / TEHRAN / YANGON / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / SINGAPORE […]
In this April 27, 2021 photo, Houthi forces take part in funeral ceremony for Yahya Al-Shami, assistant supreme commander of the Houthi forces, a day after his death due to COVID-19 pandemic, in Yemen's capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP) DUBAI – Yemen's warring parties are thrashing out terms for a peace deal that would […]
In this May 25, 2008 photo, Bassem Awadallah, then Director of the Office of King Abdullah II of Jordan, attends a celebration to mark Independence Day, in Amman, Jordan. (NADER DAOUD / AP) AMMAN – A former Jordanian royal court chief and a low-ranking member of the royal family pleaded not guilty on Monday to […]
A general view taken on Feb 28, 2020 shows the skyline of the Qatari capital, Doha. (PHOTO / AFP) DUBAI – Qatar's foreign minister on Monday received Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to Doha, the first to be reinstated by Arab states that had agreed to end a row with Qatar earlier this year, state news […]
Then Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid delivers a statement to the press at the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Jerusalem on May 31, 2021. (DEBBIE HILL / POOL / AFP) TEL AVIV – Israel's top diplomat will travel to the United Arab Emirates next week in the first official visit by an Israeli minister to the […]
A woman wearing a face mask walks past campaign banners of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan, on June 16, 2021. (KAREN MINASYAN / AFP) MOSCOW – Armenia's acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has kept power in a parliamentary election despite being widely blamed for a military defeat last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. […]
This handout image supplied by the Iran International Photo Agency shows a view of the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bushehr, southern Iran. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) TEHRAN – A "technical failure" led to the shutdown of the Bushehr nuclear power […]
Member for New England Barnaby Joyce in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on Feb 04, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) Barnaby Joyce is Australia’s deputy prime minister for a second time after he was selected as leader of the Nationals, the junior partner in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s coalition government. The […]
US special representative for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sung Kim arrives at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, the Republic of Korea (ROK) on June 19, 2021. Sung Kim arrived in the ROK on Saturday for talks over stalled nuclear diplomacy with the DPRK. (IM HOEN-JUNG / YONHAP VIA AP) SEOUL – The […]
Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan casts his ballot at a polling station during early parliamentary elections in Yerevan on June 20, 2021. (KAREN MINASYAN / AFP) Armenia holds parliamentary elections Sunday after a campaign dominated by bitter divisions over last year’s war defeat to Azerbaijan and the fate of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. […]
In this file photo taken on Feb 4, 2006, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is mobbed by reporters as he proceeds to the 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy in Munich. (JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP) Iran said all the documents required in order to finalize an agreement with the US and other world powers […]
People wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus pray during a service to mark Dano, a Korean traditional holiday that falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, June 14, 2021. (AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP) JAKARTA / YANGON […]
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (center), head of the Taliban's political office, and other members of the Taliban delegation arrive to attend an international conference on Afghanistan over the peaceful solution to the conflict in Moscow on March 18, 2021. (ALEXANDER ZEMLIANCHENKO / POOL / AFP) KABUL – The Taliban said on Sunday they were committed […]
Outgoing Israeli President Reuvin Rivlin (center) is flanked by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during a photo with the new coalition government, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden will host Israeli President […]
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on June 19, 2021, shows outgoing President Hassan Rouhani (left) taking in part in a press conference with President-elect Ebrahim Raisi (right) during his visit to congratulate the ultraconservative cleric on winning the presidential election. Ebrahim Raisi was declared the winner Saturday of Iran's presidential election. (STRINGER […]
A picture taken on November 16, 2015 shows a Saudi air traffic controller sitting in the control tower at the Khamis Mushayt military airbase, some 880 km from the capital Riyadh, as the Saudi army conducts operations over Yemen. (FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP) DUBAI – Saudi Arabian air defenses late on Saturday destroyed six armed […]
Employees monitor the production of line for vials of Covishield, the local name for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc. and the University of Oxford, at the Serum Institute of India Ltd. Hadaspar plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India, on Jan 22, 2021. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) TEL AVIV / ISTANBUL / YANGON / MELBOURNE / […]
Ebrahim Raisi, a candidate in Iran's presidential election, waves to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2021. (EBRAHIM NOROOZI/AP) DUBAI – Iran's moderate presidential candidate congratulated his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi for winning the election, state media reported on Saturday, as the interior ministry said counting […]