Women in Iran will be able to attend football matches, starting with a World Cup qualifier next month, according to football’s world governing body, FIFA. FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he discussed the issue with the Iranian authorities after the death of a female fan earlier this month. Mr Infantino said they assured him that […]

Australia is not getting involved with the United States in its pursuit of aims in relation to Iran. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, said it was collaborating on freedom of navigation in the region. “There was no discussion about anything else,” Morrison, who made a state visit to […]

Iran will not allow anyone to violate its borders, the President Hassan Rouhani said in Tehran on Sunday at a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the start of the Islamic Republic’s 1980-1988 war with Iraq. ⤕Saudi Oil Attack: Trump announces ‘highest sanction ever’ on Iran ⤕Nigeria army intensifies campaign against insurgents in Lake Chad The […]

The UN has welcomed a proposal from Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels to end all attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace initiative. A statement said the proposal could send “a powerful message of the will to end the war”. The offer comes a week after drone and missile strikes hit Saudi Arabian oil […]

Saudi Aramco has emerged from attacks on its oil facilities “stronger than ever”, Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser told employees in a message, adding that full oil production would resume by the end of this month. The September 14 attacks on the Abqaiq and Khurais plants, some of Saudi Arabia’s biggest, caused raging fires and […]

Iran will pursue any aggressor, even if it carries out a limited attack, and seek to destroy it, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, after attacks on Saudi oil sites which Riyadh and US officials blamed on Tehran. “Be careful, a limited aggression will not remain limited. We will pursue any […]

Hong Kong protesters threw gasoline bombs and police fired tear gas Saturday in renewed clashes over anti-government grievances. Reporters saw at least one person arrested after violence erupted following an afternoon march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun, a district in the northwest of the Chinese territory. Hong Kong is in the fourth month […]

An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania. Steven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the Manta Resort, off Pemba Island. Footage shows Mr Weber diving underwater to ask Ms Antoine to marry him. In the video according to the BBC […]

On the same street corner in Seoul where 10,000 South Korean women rallied last October to demand an end to spy cameras and sexual violence, the leader of a new activist group addressed a small group of angry young men. “We are a group for legal justice, anti-hate, and true gender equality,” Moon Sung-ho boomed […]

The radical Sunni Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the bombing of a passenger bus that killed at least 11 people in Iraq’s mostly Shiite province of Karbala the day before. The explosion was caused by a bomb planted inside the bus, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry. Islamic State said through its […]

South Africa’s international relations minister has called for Africa to better manage migration. Naledi Pandor’s comments came in the wake of a wave of xenophobic attacks. Talking to migrant representatives, she also said that African leaders should not be allowed to worsen conditions in their countries and expect others to deal with the resulting migration. […]

 Bishops in Germany have defended a national reform process and denied that their efforts are leading to a rift with the Vatican in the aftermath of sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years. Felix Genn, bishop of the German city of Muenster, said the church needed to develop a more […]

The United States and El Salvador on Friday agreed to attempt to reduce the flow of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border by strengthening El Salvador’s capacity to provide for asylum seekers but did not detail any concrete actions. “The core of this is recognizing El Salvador’s development of their own asylum system and committing […]

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have marched in cities across Egypt to demand the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting “rise up, fear not, Sisi must go” and “the people demand the regime’s fall” late on Friday. Protests were reported in the capital Cairo, the second-biggest city of […]

The United States Department of the Treasury on Friday slapped sanctions on Iran’s central bank and its sovereign wealth fund, ratcheting up the pressure on Tehran nearly a week after attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure that Riyadh and Washington have blamed on Iran. Speaking at a White House press conference alongside visiting Australian Prime […]