Absence sought as part of attempt to keep Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of European show of unity; After Netanyahu insisted on coming, French made it clear Abbas would be invited as well. French President Francois Hollande conveyed a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend asking him not to come to Paris to take part in the ...

[caption id="attachment_144274" align="alignright" width="159"] People march during a rally in the French city of Nice to protest terrorism, January 10, 2015. (AFP photo)[/caption] Leaders from the four corners of the world are set to join a mass demonstration in France in solidarity with the victims of the recent attacks in the country. Paris is ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- French President Francois Hollande rejected any links between the perpetrators of the recent terror attacks around the capital Paris with Islam. In a televised address, the French leader called for vigilance and unity in the face of the shocking acts of violence in the European country and said those behind the Paris assaults were fanatics ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 10 (MNA) � In the wake of the deadly attack on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Iranian cartoonists paid their respects in a series of cartoons published on �Iran Cartoon� site.     By Mehr News Agency

Irans Speaker of President Ali Larijani (pictured)has blamed this weeks killing of 12 peopleatthe French magazine Charlie Hebdoon Western intervention in Syria. Addressing the closing ceremony of the 28th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Friday,Larijani saidWednesdays mass killing and subsequent violence and deaths were the outcome ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- In the aftermath of Wednesdays extremist attack in Paris, Muslim unions and leaders expressed outrage at the barbaric targeting of the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters, which left 12 people dead. The French Muslim Council (CFCM) condemned the attack, describing it as an extremely grave barbaric action, Yahoo News reported. CFCM ...

[caption id="attachment_143815" align="alignright" width="179"] France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen (Reuters/Charles Platiau)[/caption] The leader of Frances rightwing Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has announced she would reintroduce the death penalty if she wins Frances 2017 presidential election. I personally ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events: Iran, OPEC states pursuing sliding oil prices: Minister Iran and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are pursuing the issue of falling oil prices, saysIrans petroleumminister.   Iran condemns deadly attack on French weekly in Paris Iran ...

[caption id="attachment_143809" align="alignright" width="181"] The front pages of daily papers are displayed in a newspaper kiosk in Nice, January 8, 2015. (File photo: Reuters)[/caption] France must review its policy towards the Middle East and the Muslim world following the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris, Iran's ...

[caption id="attachment_143771" align="alignright" width="170"] Rescue service workers evacuate an injured person near the site of a shooting in Montrouge, south of Paris[/caption] One policewoman has succumbed to injuries she sustainedin a new shooting in the southern part of the French capital, Paris, just a day after a deadly attack on satirical ...

[caption id="attachment_143734" align="alignright" width="156"] Rescue workers gather at the site of a shooting in Paris, January 8, 2015.[/caption] An explosion has hit a restaurant near a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone, but no casualties have been reported. A local official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described ...