TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday he hopes to attend this summer’s Olympic Games in London but that the British authorities were reluctant to allow him, state media reported.
“I would like...
PARIS: French leader Francois Hollande’s new Socialist government ordered a 30 percent pay cut for the president and ministers as it held its first cabinet session on Thursday, several ministers said.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc...
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has approved a deal to buy natural gas from Turkmenistan via a $7.6 billion pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports said on Thursday.
The cabinet approved the signing of the...
WASHINGTON: Obama administration denied media news report claiming that the US has been helping to coordinate shipment of ‘more and better weapons’ to the Syrian rebels, with Persian Gulf nations picking up the tab.
During...
UNITED NATIONS: Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential report on Iran sanctions-busting...
TEHRAN: Iran rejects Western pressures over its nuclear activities and will never give up its rights, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday ahead of crunch talks with world powers in Baghdad next week.
“If...
ATHENS: Greece Thursday unveiled a caretaker cabinet of technocrats tasked with organising the cash-strapped nation’s second elections just six weeks after an inconclusive vote sent jitters across the eurozone.
The temporary...
