News Archive - 16 December 2022

A shooting near a high school on Chicago's Lower West Side left two teens dead and two others injured Friday afternoon, police said, according to CBS News. In a news conference, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said that a suspect has not yet been identified for the shooting outside Benito...

 Russian news agency TASS reported quoting a Russian embassy spokesman Dmitry Syty, head of the “Russian House” culture centre, had opened a mail bomb addressed to him on Friday morning. The package from an anonymous sender exploded, injuring him seriously. He has since been taken to the hospital, according to Reuters...

"Turkey’s first hypersonic missile TRG-230-IHA, manufactured by the Roketsan company, has successfully struck its target at the distance of 100 km," the official said on Twitter late on Friday. According to the company, the missile was fired from a drone hovering at an altitude of 7.62 km, TASS reported.

"The bogus and illegitimate regime of the occupying and criminal Israel owns hundreds of nuclear warheads," Amir-Abdollahian wrote in a tweet on Friday. "Tel Aviv [poses] serious threat to our common region's security," he added. "Beyond any doubt, the future belongs to Palestine's original people," the top diplomat said. The Israeli...

Khairalla Khademi, the deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Devlopment of Iran made the comments on the two-day trip to South Khorasan Province on Friday long with the President Ebrahim Raeisi on Friday. "3,300 kilometers in the railway sector are being carried out, of which 561 kilometers will be put...

Speaking on Friday afternoon at the end of his two-day visit to South Khorasan Province at the Province's Administrative Council, Ayatollah Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi advised the provincial officials and the government managers especially the cultural managers, to pay attention to the people's needs and serve them in the best way.

Iran faced the Kazakhstan team in the final of the 1st DIFA World Deaf Futsal U-21 Championships 2022 in Malaysia and defeated their opponent 1-0 to win the title. Mehdi Karamali (goalkeeper and captain), Mohammad Hassan Abdollahi, Masoud Barnak, Abolfazl Ebrahimi and Alireza Nasirinejad played in Iran's team today. Iran's...

The local authority for the Lyon/Rhone region said the fire was first reported to emergency services at 3.12am and by 3.25am around 170 firefighters and 65 fire trucks were at the site, The Guardian newspaper reported on its website. Emergency services reported that the fire broke out in...

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to increase the cost of borrowing by 50 basis points to 3.5% after the consumer price index showed annual inflation of 10.7% last month, the RT reported. The hike takes UK rates to their highest level since October 2008 and comes despite...

Russia launched dozens of missiles at Ukraine, the latest in a wave of attacks on critical infrastructure. According to the Guardian, a senior Ukrainian presidential official said on Friday that emergency power shutdowns were being brought in across the country after Russian missiles hit energy facilities in several regions. Kyrylo...

Japan on Friday unveiled a new national security plan that signals the country’s biggest military buildup since World War II, doubling defense spending and veering from its pacifist constitution in the face of growing threats from regional rivals, CNN reported. In an early evening televised address in Tokyo, Prime Minister...

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Jordanian police say a senior commander has been killed in clashes with protesters that broke out over high fuel prices. Abdul Razzaq Abdel Hafez Al Dalabeh, deputy police director in the city of Maan, was shot Thursday “by a group of outlaws,” police said, according ABC News. “We will not...

"Recently, during a trip to Saudi Arabia, which is said to be a milking cow, the President of China made irrelevant remarks about the three islands. Iran's serious demand is to compensate for the aforementioned stance from China and let them know that we do not compromise with anyone regarding...

Ghaderzadeh, 20, stands at 65.24cm, earning him the Guinness shortest man living record. He has surpassed the previous title-holder, Colombia's Edward Hernandez, who measured 70.21cm tall when he was first recognised in 2010. Hernandez was remeasured as 72.1cm in 2020 by Guinness World Records. Ghaderzadeh was born...

He finished in first place after lifting 218kg in the Men's Up to 80kg class, according to Tehran Times. Iraqi and Georgian powerlifters came second and third, respectively. Around 200 lifters from 36 nations are in action at the Dubai Club for People of Determination at the Fazza 12th Dubai...

“There was an explosion in a parked vehicle at 5:10am (02:10 GMT) as a police vehicle was going to work in Diyarbakir,” Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu said, according to Aljazeera. One civilian and eight police officers were injured in a terrorist attack when a minibus carrying anti-riot police on...

The London-based Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (SOHR) has reported on its website that the US forces are preparing for announcing their first military base in Al-Raqqa, after having withdrawn from the province over three years, during “peace Spring” operation in 2019.  This comes after the US forces had...

The proposed budget is $45 billion more than what was proposed by Biden, with 83 lawmakers approving it and 11 voting against it. According to Press TV, the bill, known as National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), now heads to the White House for Biden’s signature. The fiscal 2023 NDAA authorizes...

President Ebrahim Raeisi made the comments on Thursday evening in a meeting with the businessmen in Birjand, the capital of the northeastern Iranian province of South Khorasan. "The enemy has created an economic war and does not want us to reach the apex and be successful, so it creates barriers...

Saeed Iravani made the remarks at the conference of foreign ministers of the group of 77 plus China where he said that during the illegal exclusion of Iran from being a member of the Status of  Women Commission, the United States violated the legal procedures with unilateral dictatorship, bullying and...

The Iranian national men's goalball team defeated Colombia 15-5, Egypt 10-3, Argentina 10-6 and Ukraine 4-3 and lost to China 7-5, Lithuania 15-5, the US 11-9 and Brazil 15-5 in the competition. The competition started on Dec. 7 in Matosinhos, Portugal and will run until Dec. 16. This tournament is...

Nasser Kan’ani made the comments in a statement early on Friday, a day after a resolution dubbed “Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran” was adopted by 80 in favor and 29 against, with 65 abstentions, Press TV reported. Put forward by Canada and supported by European...

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Saturday, December 17.     ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) – On the second of the provincial visit to South Khorasan Province, President Ebrahim Raeisi went to Nehbandan and talked to people there in a face-to-face meeting.   ...