A wildlife charity set up a fake online ivory shop in Singapore, attracting widespread condemnation, in a stunt to underline local laws which it says continue to facilitate illicit ivory trade…
A pod of more than 30 endangered Chinese white dolphins, affectionately nicknamed the "pandas of the sea", was filmed swimming in southern China earlier this week by a marine mammal research…
The Iranian national workgroup to combat dust storms has put it on its agenda for this year to prepare a joint comprehensive scheme in cooperation with Syria and Iraq under the oversight of the…
An Asiatic cheetah has been struck by a car on the Tehran-Mashhad road in the vicinity of Khartouran National Park, Semnan Province.
According to Ali Abbas Damangir, head of the…
A team of veterinarians and environmental experts have been tasked with saving a sickly six-year-old leopard in the Mashhad Zoo, after footage of the captive animal being mistreated sparked a…
Patrolling in the heights of Khorand Village in Ravar County, Kerman Province, Ali Khajoui, a park ranger, came across three poachers who opened fire and killed him on the spot on Monday.…
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Iran is open to negotiations if the United States shows "sincerity", President Hassan Rouhani said late on Monday, but added that such talks would be meaningless while the country is being…
North Korea’s top diplomat held talks in Tehran on Tuesday on a range of issues, including bilateral ties and regional and international developments.
New US sanctions against Iran took effect on Tuesday, and President Donald Trump, who defied Washington’s allies to impose them, pledged that firms doing business with Tehran would be barred…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with the newly-appointed ambassador of Pakistan Riffat Masood and the new secretary general of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of…
The Assembly of Experts, a top body tasked with electing the leader of the Islamic Revolution has called on the three branches of the government to take practical and effective steps to improve…
Iran’s new ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Jalal Firouznia submitted a copy of his credentials to Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil on Monday.
In the meeting, the two sides discussed the…
Iraqi President Fuad Masum said Monday that due to the circumstances of Iraq and the nature of its relations with Iran complying with new US sanctions against Tehran will be "difficult".
Household consumption, the engine of Indonesia’s trillion-dollar economy, is purring again.
China’s Alibaba Group plans to merge its food delivery units and raise funds for the combined business, intensifying a battle with Tencent-backed Meituan Dianping for dominance of China’s…
Desperate measures are in the air in Turkey: trading rooms are awash with talk of a bailout by the International Monetary Fund and potential capital controls. But there’s a vacuum at the core.…
Australia’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at a record low for two years even though other major central banks started tightening their policies, RTTNews reported. The board…
The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction has observed that Zambia’s economy has shrunk and that a year-end growth of about 4.2% is “quite debatable.” CSPR Executive Director Patrick Nshindano…
Before the 2008 financial crisis, the Bank of England’s data on consumer debt in the UK was recorded at £2.08 trillion ($2.70 trillion).
Oil prices rose on Tuesday with the reimposition of US sanctions against major crude exporter Iran expected to tighten global supply. Spot Brent crude oil futures were $74.17 per barrel, up 42…
ExxonMobil is close to discovering huge oil reserves in Pakistan near the border with Iran and those reserves could even be larger than the oil reserves of Kuwait, Pakistan's minister for…
Japanese energy supply should not be affected by US sanctions on Iran, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko said in a news conference on Tuesday.
US crude oil producers appear to have found an alternative buyer for cargoes no longer heading to China, with India on track to import record volumes in August.
While most of the sanction-bypassing oil trade with North Korea is thought to be originating from China, oil sales from Russia to Kim Jong-un’s regime may be much larger than official figures…
