Iran DailyUnemployment rate down to single digit
Irans unemployment rate dropped to a single-digit figure this summer, announced the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) on Friday.
UN warns of massacre if ISIL terrorists take Kobani
Terrorists of the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) advanced deeper into the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border on Friday, taking almost complete control of an area where the local Kurdish administration is based, a group monitoring the violence reported.
NAM voices support for Palestinian state
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) reaffirmed its firm support for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state with Beit-ul-Moqaddas as its capital.
UN: Libya clashes displace 287,000
A spike in clashes between rival militias in Libya has pushed the number of people driven from their homes to an estimated 287,000, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.
Saravan attack perpetrators arrested
Iranian security forces have apprehended a number of perpetrators responsible for the recent slaying of four police officers in the southeast of the country, a top police commander said.
Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize
Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to their own lives.
Geneva confab welcomes Iran suggestions on Afghanistan
Irans twin suggestions to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) were welcomed at an international conference in Geneva on Afghanistan reconstruction and root causes of refugee influx, said an Interior Ministry official on Friday.
Zarif, Ashton, Kerry to meet in Vienna next week
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to hold trilateral talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tehrans nuclear energy program next week.
Envoy: Iran, IAEA discuss practical steps to agreements
Irans envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog discussed the ways of finalizing the two steps out of the five nuclear transparency measures agreed by the two sides in May.
Iran urges united intl stance against terrorism
Iran has warned the international community about the consequences of a selective approach by certain countries in their so-called battle against terrorism.
Iran not to allow airspace violation by drones
A senior Iranian commander said the Islamic Republic will deal firmly with any foreign drones seeking to infiltrate the countrys airspace, particularly over nuclear sites.
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Iran upbeat about fruitful, serious talks with IAEA
Irans ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed satisfaction over the signi?cant progress made in the talks between Iran and the IAEA in ?nalizing the two remaining steps of their May agreement.
UN secretary general condemns Yemen bomb attacks
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned two deadly terrorist attacks in Yemen.
Bloodbath looms as Kobani makes last stand
The new U.N. envoy to Syria warned on Friday that at least 500 civilians remain trapped in the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which is being be- sieged by ISIL militants, and they were likely be massacred if it falls to the extremists.
Pakistans failure to guard its borders is unacceptable: Iran police chief
Four Iranian police o?cers, including a conscript, were killed on Wednesday and Thursday in two terrorist attacks on a border police station in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
North, South Korea exchange heavy fire on border
North and South Korea ex- changed heavy machine gun fire across their border on Fri- day, after the North fired at balloons carrying anti-Pyong- yang leaflets launched by activists in the South, military officials said.
Corporate Iran takes ?nancial charm offensive to London
The Oct. 15-16 Europe-Iran Forum, the largest gathering of Iranian commercial o?cials in London for years, aims to attract capital, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia waging systematic, ruthless campaign of persecution
Saudi Arabia is waging a systematic and ruthless campaign of per- secution against peaceful activists in order to silence criticism of the state in the wake of the 2011 Islamic Awakening (Arab Spring) uprisings, Amnesty International said on Fri- day.
Iran resolved to defend its airspace: commander
The commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base has highlighted the full preparedness of his forces to defend the countrys air space, specially its nuclear sites, against possible threats by enemies.
Leaders first hiking trip after prostate surgery
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has gone hiking in one of the heights of Tehran.
Irans Kurds hold rallies in support of Kobani
Rallies in support of the people of the Syrian town of Kobani were held after Friday prayers in the Kurdish populated cit- ies of Sanandaj, Saqez, Bane, and Marivan in western Iran.
Iran urges united intl. stance against terrorism
A member of Irans mission to the UN has called on the international community to take a uni?ed stance against terrorism.
Iran warns Turkey against establishing military presence in Syria
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran and Turkey are in consultation over the situation in the Kurdish city of Kobani, and noted that Tehran has warned An- kara against launching ground operations in Syria.
Iran denounces fatal bomb attack in Yemeni capital
Iran has condemned as inhumane and indiscriminate a recent bomb attack that killed near- ly 50 people in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
Iran hopes for new path in nuclear talks: negotiator
Irans deputy foreign minister and one of the countrys top nuclear negotiators on Friday expressed hope that a new path will be opened in next weeks nuclear talks in Vienna.
