The United States has issued visas allowing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to travel to New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations next week, Iran’s UN mission said on Thursday. Iran’s foreign minister spokesman said in a tweet that Zarif was set to leave […]

United States officials were unwilling to predict what kind of response Trump will choose. In June, after Iran shot down an American surveillance drone, Trump initially endorsed a retaliatory military strike then abruptly called it off because he said it would have killed dozens of Iranians. The decision underscores the president’s long-held reluctance to embroil […]

United States Police say they found a 3-year-old girl wandering in a parking lot while her mother worked inside a South Florida strip club. Lauderhill police Lt. Michael Santiago says in a news release that someone called 911 early Tuesday after seeing a child roaming around. Santiago says the child-led officers to a vehicle that […]

Liberia’s President George Weah has declared Thursday a national day of mourning following a deadly fire at a boarding school in the country. Recall Vanguard reported Wednesday that a school fire believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning when school students were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque […]

A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and labourers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at mountainous […]

Model Winnie Harlow has sparked outrage on social media by moaning about having to fly economy after her flight to Milan was cancelled at short notice. The former America’s Next Top Model star, 25, took to Instagram last night to tell her followers about her ordeal, revealing she was forced to give up her business […]

Iran’s foreign minister has warned any attack on his country in response to its alleged role in a drone and missile strike on Saudi oil facilities would result in “all-out war”, further heightening tensions across the Persian Gulf. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s comments are the starkest warning yet by Iran after a summer of oil tanker […]

A trio of couples were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday, charged with breaking a local law that outlaws public displays of affection. Despite international condemnation, whipping is a common punishment for a range of offences in the deeply conservative region on Sumatra island, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and having pre-marital sex. Aceh […]

A US referee who told a wrestler to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit the match has been suspended for two years. High-school student Andrew Johnson decided to cut his hair in order to compete. Footage of the incident was posted to social media with some accusing referee Alan Moloney of racial discrimination, BBC reported. State […]

Tensions between the United States and Iran ratcheted up Wednesday as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decried the weekend attacks on the Saudi oil industry as an “act of war” and President Trump ordered a substantial increase in sanctions against the government in Tehran. With the Trump administration linking the sanctions step to the airstrikes, […]