News Archive - 16 September 2023

The Israeli army struck the territory on Friday, claiming it had hit "a military post" belonging to the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas. A spokesman for the military said the airstrike had hit an area where Palestinians had gathered earlier in the day, near the permanently closed Karni crossing.

“The attaché has been expelled along with personnel of the French military office in (the capital) Ouagadougou,” Omega Radio reported, citing a statement by authorities to the French Foreign Ministry. Pasquier is accused of carrying out “subversive activities.” A letter by Burkina Faso’s Foreign Ministry also notified France of...

“In the early morning of September 16, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by two aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles on facilities on Russian territory was stopped. Air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian UAVs over the Kaluga and Tver regions,” the ministry said, Sputnik...

The leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) saw Russia's Tu-160, Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 bombers, a Sputnik correspondent reported. These aircraft form the air component of Russia's strategic nuclear forces. In addition, Kim and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who met the guest, saw modern aircraft of the Russian...

The death toll from devastating floods in eastern Libya has surpassed 11,000, according to the Libyan Red Crescent, as rescuers desperately try to help those who managed to survive the disaster, ABC reports. The Libyan Red Crescent said Friday that at least 11,300 people had died and another 10,100 were...

The special prosecutor of the case announced that this man was sentenced to treatment in the psychiatric ward and no specific maximum time for his treatment has been set. In the indictment that he submitted, he had demanded the punishment of the attacker based on physical action of a very...

Iran’s principal policy is to thwart the sanctions’ impact, Amir-Abdollahian said on Friday, which does not contract bids aimed at lifting the “cruel and unilateral” restrictions. The foreign minister said Iran would never tie its interests to China, the United States, Russia, and Europe, but would cooperate with any country...

On Friday, the United States, the UK, and the European Union sanctioned dozens of Iranian individuals and entities, which they accused of either suppression or misrepresentation of last year's unrest. Later in the day, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani denounced the sanctions as "unconstructive behavior," which was not in line...

In a letter to the UN Security Council President Ferit Hoxha and the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, Iravani said that the United States pessimistic attempt to create an illusory link between the alleged usage of drones in the Ukraine war and the United Nations Security Council...

“Given serious crimes and assassinations committed by the MKO terrorist group against Iranian people and their deceitful nature, acknowledged by institutions like the European Parliament, how can the Belgian government, claiming to fight terror, give tribune to the leader of the sect on its soil?” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman...

In a post on his X account on Saturday, Nasser Kan'ani marked the 41st anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre by the Zionist regime. He said the Zionists and their mercenaries that ruthlessly massacred thousands of innocent and defenseless men, women, and children in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps...

Iraq’s Shafaq News Agency cited the country’s Border Guard Forces as saying in a statement late on Friday that they had seized border points in Erbil Province and raised Iraq’s national flag in the area after clashes with the “outlaws”. “As part of the efforts of the Border Forces Command...

Tasnim has learned that members of a team affiliated with terrorist groups had come to Iran from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with the purpose of carrying out a shooting attack on an illegal rally held in Saqqez on Friday. The Iranian security forces thwarted the plot, arrested four terrorists,...

Hassan Yazdani, who reached the quarterfinals with 2 wins against opponents from Australia and Mongolia, faced his rival from San Marino on Friday. He won easily with a score of 7-2 and reached the semi-finals. Yazdani twice scored four points off a driving double-leg tackle before finishing off an 11-0...

The US Department of Justice confirmed on September 8 that it had seized the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker carrying Iranian oil, named Suez Rajan, and its cargo of 980,000 barrels of crude oil off the coast of Texas. The department claimed that Suez Rajan was in April transporting Iranian oil to...

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In a meeting held in Havana on Friday, Iran’s Vice-President for Science and Technology Ruhollah Dehqani and Cuba’s Minister of Science, Technology and Environment Elba Rosa Perez Montoya stressed the need to develop mutual cooperation in the field of technology. The government of Cuba places special emphasis on technology-based progress...