News Archive - 25 January 2023

A spokesperson for the federal police in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein confirmed that there had been a knife attack with casualties, but could not give exact figures, media have reported. Police were investigating at the train station in the Brokstedt, the German railway Deutsche Bahn said on Twitter. Police...

A young Palestinian man by the name of "Salah Muhammad Ali" who had been wounded by Israeli regime's soldiers during the clashes in the Shuafat camp in occupied Quds succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday and was martyred, local Palestinian media said. Local media published video footage of the moment...

Iran’s non-oil export (excluding crude oil export) stood at 103 million tons worth $45.3 billion during the first ten months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Jan. 20), registering a 2.9 % and 17.6%  year-on-year rise in weight and value respectively, Rezvani-Far said. The exports mainly included...

The Iranian and French foreign ministers held a phone conversation on Wednesday evening.  Referring to his recent meeting with his French counterpart in Jordan, Amir-Abdollahian highly regarded the historical relations between the two countries and described France's stances in fomenting the recent riots in Iran as unfriendly. The Iranian...

As many s 13,214 drawings had been sent to the 13th Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children in Japan while 5 members of the Iranian Center for the Intellectual Development of Child and Adolescent (CIDCA) gained awards. 9-year-old Ahura Bakhtiari from CIDCA No. 41 in Tehran received the Kao Award, 6-year-old...

International benchmark Brent crude traded at $86.58 per barrel at 09.56 a.m. local time (0656GMT), a 0.52% increase from the closing price of $86.13 a barrel in the previous trading session, Anadolu Agency reported. American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) traded at $80.42 per...

Farid Aslani Haji Abadi led Zob Ahan with 16 points, and Ken Horton scored 19 points for Beirut Club. Zob Ahan had lost to Beirut Club 73-56 in their previous match, Tehran Times reported. Each Sub-Zone league consists of eight (8) teams divided into two (2) groups of four (4).

An Iraqi police force was killed and another one was injured during the incident. The attack took place on an Iraqi Army patrol in the west of Baghdad, according to the reports. Unknown gunmen quickly fled the scene after shooting at Iraqi police forces. A security source in the Iraqi...

According to local Palestinian al-Quds al-Akhbariya news website, local sources reported a new anti-Zionist operation by a Palestinian youth near Qalqilya in the West Bank on Wednesday afternoon. The Zionist Israeli regime forces shot the young Palestinian and wounded him. The news was confirmed by Al Jazeera who said in...

"We face such things in every election (calls for ending Turkey’s membership of NATO). These are not the things that we will worry about. Those who call for terminating Turkey’s membership of NATO do not talk sense. This is out of the question. We are one of the founding countries...

“NASA will work with our long-term partner, DARPA, to develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027,” Administrator Bill Nelson said, adding that the two agencies will “ignite the future, together,” the Russian Today or RT reported. While NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) will be...

Germany has confirmed that it will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and approve their re-export from other countries, in a move that was hailed by Kyiv’s Western allies and decried by Russia as a dangerous escalation, Aljazeera reported. Fourteen of the German-made tanks will be sent initially as part...

Aimed at the continuation of gas production in the South Pars gas field, plans are being designed for maintaining production capacity, drilling new wells, and increasing the pressure, Khojasteh Mehr told Mehr News Agency. In this regard, the production of 2 compressors has progressed by 84% in the land sector and...

Thanks to the Iranian hardworking scientists and experts, the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the leading countries in the production of radiopharmaceuticals, Mohammad Eslami told reporters on the sideline of the cabinet session. Today, Iran is among the five top producers of radiopharmaceuticals in the world, he also said. Domestically produced...

Speaking about measures taken by Iran to promote the tourism sector, Ezzatollah Zarghami said that the country is advancing a visa waiver program for 5 groups from different countries in a unilateral manner. This measure is very necessary to strengthen the country's tourism sector while rejecting the criticisms that the visa cancellation...

"Hostile actions by US regime against Iranians are countless. Different and diverse aspects of US administrations’ crimes against the Iranian nation expose fake, political human rights gestures US officials and instrumental use of #HumanRights," Nasser Kan'ani wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. "Devising coup d’état, providing support to 8-year imposed...

The expert committees of the 18th meeting of the Joint Commission on Economic, Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Trade of Iran and Kazakhstan began at the Astana Expo site in Kazakhstan. Referring to the importance of the signing final document of the 18th round of the Iran-Kazakhstan joint economic commission, Iranian...

The foreign ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran following the approvals of related authorities and in the framework of relevant regulations and sanctions mechanisms stipulates the following Individuals and entities of the EU and UK regime in its sanction list for supporting terrorism and terrorist groups, instigating and encouragement...

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Iran's Kolivand and Iraq's Ahmed Abbas held the meeting on the sidelines of the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies. The construction of a hospital by the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in Baghdad, as well as providing specialist staff, dentists, and surgical teams by the Iranian Red Crescent Society were...

CEO of the Revolution & Sacred Defense Cinema Association (RSDCA) Mohammad Hosseini, Secretary of the 17th International Resistance Film Festival Jalal Ghafari Ghadir and Iranian writer and cinema director Ahmadreza Darvish met with a high-ranking artistic and media delegation from Syria, led by Syrian Deputy Culture Minister Ahmad Dawa. The...

Maghsoodloo succeeded to draw with Wesley So in the ninth round of the 85th Tata Steel Chess Championship. The Iranian champion, with a rating of 2719, could draw the prominent American chess player Wesley So, with a rating of 2760. Earlier, Maghsoodloo succeeded to stop his prominent Chinese rival Ding...

The Biden administration's announcement to send the US-made tanks could come as early as this week, CNN reported on Tuesday. The timing around the actual delivery of the tanks is still unclear and it normally takes several months to train troops to use the tanks effectively, officials said. The US...

Oleg Yegorov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry) said that five ceasefire violations by Jabhat al-Nusra group have been recorded during the day, two of which were carried out in Idlib province and another one in...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine and allow other countries such as Poland to do so, Reuters reported. The decision concerns at least one company of Leopard 2 A6 tanks that will be provided out of Bundeswehr stocks, said Spiegel magazine, which...

Hundreds of child asylum seekers have gone missing since the British government started housing minors in hotels due to a strain on the country’s asylum accommodation system, British Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick told lawmakers in parliament on Tuesday, amid calls for an investigation into the matter, CNN reported. Jenrick said...

"Throughout the Ukrainian crisis, the administration repeatedly used the technique of publishing information in the media on the eve of significant deliveries of weapons and equipment to the Kyiv regime. An analysis of the entire sequence of Washington's actions shows that the Americans are constantly raising the ‘bar’ of military...

According to a Bloomberg report, anonymous people familiar with the matter refused to give details of the support but said that it consists of non-lethal military and economic assistance that stops short of wholesale evasion of the sanctions regime the US and its allies imposed after Russian forces started Ukraine...

"During a conversation with [US] General [Laura] Richardson and other US officials, I was told that due to [Colombia’s] inability to maintain [Russian-made weapons] in active service, they were ready to do so and send it to Ukraine," he said, answering to a question from TASS on Tuesday. According to...

PAF spokesperson Colonel Ma. Consuelo Castillo said in a statement that a Marchetti SF260 aircraft with two pilots aboard went down in Bataan province, west of Manila, at around 10:34 am local time. Castillo declined to confirm reports that the two pilots were killed in the accident. But the provincial...

The US Defence Department is preparing for House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Taiwan later this year, Punchbowl News reported on Monday, citing an official directly involved, according to Sout China Morning Post. If McCarthy does go on to travel to Taipei, it would be the second trip...

A cargo ship with 22 people aboard sank off Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan early Wednesday, with 13 crew members rescued following a distress call by the vessel issued the previous night, Kyodo News Agency reported. Currently, patrol boats and aircraft are searching for the remaining nine crew members of...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Secretary General of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) met and held talks in Tashkent on Tuesday. In this meeting, Iran’s Foreign Minister told Kairat Sarybay that the Islamic Republic of Iran attaches great importance to CICA. Amir-Abdollahian added...

Kayhan: People stage protest outside BBC building CBI steps to stabilize forex market Jomhuri-e Eslami: VP Mokhber urges Afghanistan to be committed to Hirmand water right Javan: US police say breaking glass considered an act of terrorism Etela'at: Iran-Syria ties based on Resistance, beliefs  Etemad: Syria MoD meets president Raeisi Abrar:...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said on Tuesday he was going to visit Iran in February to assess the situation regarding nuclear non-proliferation and resume the political dialogue, Sputnik reported. "I believe I might be back in Tehran on this and on the other issues...

The terrorist teams, who were detained by intelligence forces in a short period of time, were planning to take revenge for their recent failures (in creating insecurity in Iran) by conducting operations, according to Khatib. Saying that the enemies' conspiracies have made the Iranian nation know them better, Khatib stressed...

The Iraqi prime minister made the remarks before departing for France on Wednesday. Stressing that Iraq believes that the stability of the region will be achieved by removing tensions, al-Sudani added that Baghdad will try to bring the views of Tehran and Riyadh closer. "We believe that dialogue is the...

Did You Feel It? Offshore Earthquake Shakes the Southern California CoastNBC Los Angeles· 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck early Wednesday off the coast of Malibu, shaking widespread parts of Southern California coast and inland areas as many people were sleeping.

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) – After the Wednesday meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) chaired by President Raeisi, the ministers answered questions from the journalists that were present at the presidential compound.    ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Wednesday, January 25.