Zimbabwe's capital was quiet on Friday hours after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the tight election, which began with Monday's peaceful vote but turned deadly when the…
At least 55 people, including women and children, have been killed in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodaida in air raids carried out by a Saudi and UAE alliance battling Houthi forces, their…
Four people have tested positive for Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo just days after another outbreak that killed 33 people in the northwest was declared over, the health ministry…
A bipartisan group of US senators is introducing legislation to impose new financial penalties on Russia.
The bill would slap new sanctions on Moscow, require two-thirds Senate approval…
Mali’s presidential election will go to a runoff poll after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita failed to get enough votes to win a second term in office outright, according to preliminary figures…
Chile's government on Wednesday began restricting tourism to Easter Island, which is known for its stunning gigantic stone heads known as Moais.The statues have attracted an ever-increasing flow…
Tourism industry awaits brighter days thanks to the recent approval of a bill which envisages the conversion of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization into a ministry,…
An underperforming tourism market and poor management are pushing hotels in the northwestern province of Razavi Khorasan toward the brink of bankruptcy, a veteran hotelier warned.
More than 10,650 Spanish visitors traveled to Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2017-18), which is 9.5% higher than the year before. Iranian tourism authority's annual report on foreign…
A tourism official criticized the government's neglectful approach to medical tourism, depriving the country of a considerable potential source of national income.
The August sun sparkles on the Seine River beyond the imposing Eiffel Tower, but the many visitors who descended on the beloved Paris monument on Thursday at the peak of the summer tourist…
The number of foreigners visiting Dubai, a Persian Gulf tourism hub, grew by 0.5% in the first half of 2018, a substantially slower rate than the 10.6% growth recorded a year earlier, official…
Denmark has yet to grant permit for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in its territorial waters. All other major countries involved in the project, including Russia, Germany,…
Iran and Pakistan may initiate in September the much-awaited parleys on how to advance on the IP gas pipeline project that was earlier shelved by the previous government in June 2016.
Saudi Arabia is cutting the September official selling prices for all its grades and to all markets, except for the United States, as it aims to entice more buyers after increasing oil supply to…
The US has been unable to persuade China to cut Iranian oil imports, according to two officials familiar with the negotiations, dealing a blow to US President Donald Trump’s efforts to isolate…
Chronic electricity cuts in Iraq have made households cope with relentless summer highs of 48 degrees Celsius, without a source of cool air. According to Aljazeera, life has become increasingly…
India’s monthly oil imports from Iran surges by about 30% to a record 768,000 barrels per day in July, preliminary tanker arrival data obtained by Reuters showed. The shipments also include…
A water desalination plant, with a capacity of treating 10,000 cubic meters of saltwater daily, has been launched in Bandar Torkaman in the west of Golestan Province.
Iran's gasoline output has risen by 18 million liters per day in the first four months of the current fiscal (started March 21), registering a 24% growth compared with last year's production, a…
Despite a century of scientific scrutiny, the 5,000-year old Neolithic monument in southern England, known as Stonehenge, has yielded few secrets about the people buried amidst its ring of…
Feature film “The Redhead” by Karim Lakzadeh will be competing in the 4th Quito International Film Festival in Ecuador, August 14-19.
Written and directed by Lakzadeh, the movie is…
Pop and traditional singer Ali Zand-Vakili will perform four concerts in Milad Tower on August 6-7.
He will sing a selection of his popular songs, including his recent “Sattar Khan”…
Short animation “The Bystander” directed by Sheyda Kashi has entered the lineup for the 32nd Festival International du Film Amateur de Kelibia in Tunisia, August 12-19.
The 8-minute…
Filmmaker and film editor Pouya Parsa-Maqam’s solo exhibition is underway at Dastan Gallery until August 10. Titled “On the Pictures” the exhibition includes photography, video art and painting…
