TEHRAN (defapress) – The spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, on Wednesday called on the United States to stop elevating ties with Taiwan after Washington and Taipei announced they would hold economic talks later this month.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A Republican senator from the swing state at the center of Donald Trump’s legal battles over the US election has urged the US president to begin the process of a transition of power to Joe Biden.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that a COVID-19 vaccine will likely be widely available by April, a promising prediction that arrives after drugmaker Pfizer said its shot appears to be highly effective.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged G20 member states to pressure Saudi Arabia into releasing activists detained unlawfully and provide accountability for past abuses ahead of a leaders summit scheduled to be held in the kingdom later this month.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Russian peacekeeping troops were deployed to the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of a ceasefire deal to end six weeks of heavy fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the statement on the need to avoid politicizing the coronavirus situation that Chinese leader Xi Jinping made during a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said expressed his country’s determination to enhance relations with Iran.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The administration of US President Donald Trump paid Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido $ 800 million over two years. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced this on Sunday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris made victory speeches to the American nation Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, with primetime remarks stressing unity for a sharply-divided nation.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Shortly after American media called the presidential election for former Vice President Joe Biden, Donald Trump released a statement claiming the election was "far from over," vowing to take the election to the courts.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The US Supreme Court on Friday ordered Pennsylvania election boards to separately count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, while rejecting a GOP request to stop counting those votes.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The EU added eight ministers from the new Syrian government formed in August to its sanctions blacklist.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Joe Biden said on Thursday there was “no doubt” he would be elected the 46th US president while Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the Democrats were trying to “steal” the election by counting illegal votes.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Accusing the Democrats of "stealing the election", US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that as per the "legal" vote count, he "easily wins".

TEHRAN (defapress) – According to the latest figures on Friday, 49,084,637 people have so far been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, with the deaths reaching 1,240,524 and recoveries amounting to 35,019,477.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Two prominent Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham have backed the US President's allegations of voter fraud.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US National Guard troops were deployed in Portland, Oregon, as protests in the city descended into “widespread violence,” police said.

TEHRAN (defapress) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says there will be no return to ‘good old times transatlantic relations’.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump says he will be going to the Supreme Court over the election result.

TEHRAN (defapress) – More than a thousand opponents of US President Donald Trump rallied near the White House to protest against him.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A high ranking official with the German government has assessed the situation in the United States following the Presidential election as 'explosive'.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that the country is “rounding the corner” in its fight against the coronavirus and will soon have defeated it, Dr. Deborah Birx warned the government must take immediate action to avoid a “broad surge” of winter cases.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The White House is said to be irked by the country's leading infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci having given a wide-ranging interview in which he "appears to play politics" on the coronavirus outbreak just days before the general election.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A new poll shows that President Donald Trump has a seven point lead over rival Joe Biden in swing state Iowa.

TEHRAN (defapress)- More than 20 European Muslim organisations called on French President Emmanuel Macron to end his “divisive rhetoric”, as the fallout between France and the Muslim world continues.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Democrat Joe Biden maintains his double-digit national lead over Republican President Donald Trump in the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the 2020 presidential election, with six-in-10 voters saying the country is on the wrong track, and with a majority disapproving of the president’s handling of the coronavirus.

TEHRAN (defapress)- An independent UN rights expert called on the international community to take action as Israel records the highest number of annual settlement approvals in the occupied Palestinian lands in flagrant violation of international law.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has an 8-point lead over President Trump nationally in a new Fox News poll released Friday.

TEHRAN (defapress) - France headed into a second lockdown on Friday as the resurgent coronavirus pandemic hit new heights in the United States with a daily record of more than 90,000 cases, just five days before the US presidential election.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A US court has summoned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and nine others in a lawsuit filed by the former Saudi official, Saad Al-Jabri, for the attempted assassination of him.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A new poll finds Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by 8 points nationally, doubling his advantage over the same poll from last month as Election Day nears.

TEHRAN (defapress)- France encouraged EU allies to adopt measures against Turkey on Tuesday after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned French President Emmanuel Macron's mental health and called for a boycott of French goods.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Kremlin expressed regret and concerns as fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh continues despite the earlier reached ceasefire agreements.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Former US President Barack Obama offered a seething rebuke of Jared Kushner after the White House senior adviser a day earlier said that for President Trump’s economic policies to work, Black Americans had to “want to be successful.”

TEHRAN (defapress) – IAEA’s inspectors have expressed satisfaction with the level of cooperation with Iran regarding the inspection of two sites sought by the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Bolivia’s regional court in La Paz dismissed “terrorism” charges and dropped the arrest warrant issued against former President Evo Morales, arguing that his rights were violated and judicial procedures breached.

TEHRAN (defapress)- China introduced tougher regulatory standards on a list of US media outlets in a “necessary and reciprocal” move following Washington's decision to hit a number of Chinese journalists with restrictions.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Moscow regrets that attempts are being made in the US to spread hatred against Russia, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s statement that Russia was the biggest threat to the United States at the moment.

TEHRAN (defapress)- US President Donald Trump’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden says he thinks the biggest security threat to America is Russia.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that most Republicans want to see President Donald Trump voted out of office but can’t say it publicly, Axios reported on Sunday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russia believes that only a diplomatic solution is possible to the Karabakh crisis and calls on all the external players to abstain from promoting the military scenario, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Athens News Agency - Macedonian Press Agency.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Several Arab trade associations announced the boycott of French products, protesting the recent insulting comments made by President Emmanuel Macron against Islam

TEHRAN (defapress)- The COVID-19 infections in Germany are spreading more rapidly than at the beginning of the year, which indicates that the country is yet to face its most difficult months, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday during her regular television address to the nation.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Two of Vice President Mike Pence's top deputies tested positive for the coronavirus: Chief of Staff Marc Short and Political Aide Marty Obst.

TEHRAN (defapress)- France on Saturday recalled its ambassador in Turkey for consultations, said a Elysee Palace statement.

TEHRAN (defapress)- President Donald Trump hasn’t attended a coronavirus task force meeting in “several months”, even as new cases in the US continue to climb, White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Pentagon on Friday strongly condemned the test of a Russian-made S-400 missile defense system by NATO ally Turkey and warned of "serious consequences."

TEHRAN (defapress) – A group of 45 US Democratic lawmakers Wednesday called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to withdraw the US from the G20 summit next month in Saudi Arabia unless the kingdom promises reforms on a long list of human rights abuses.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Moscow sees US' latest sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a continuation of a destructive policy which damages bilateral relations, Russia's presidential spokesman said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Human Rights Watch called on Saudi Arabia to stop the imminent execution of eight men charged with activities related to a wave of anti-government protests while they were under the age of 18.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed carrying forward the great spirit demonstrated by the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) Army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in the new era and striving to achieve national rejuvenation.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The first lady had contact with a person who later tested positive for the coronavirus on October 15, and will now stay isolated for a week.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Russia criticized Washington's “wrong approach” against Iran, stressing that Moscow will keep up its business ties with Tehran despite US potential sanctions.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The European Union has imposed sanctions on seven Syrian ministers, a report said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Donald Trump’s former national security adviser warned the president “will not leave graciously if he loses” in his re-election bid against Joe Biden, saying in a new interview. “Whether he carries it to the extreme, I don’t think we know.”

TEHRAN (defapress) – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday slammed US President Donald Trump for continuing to "lie about the circumstances" of the coronavirus pandemic.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow will resume its military cooperation with Tehran following the termination of the UN Security Council’s arms restrictions against Iran.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Chinese government warned Washington it may detain Americans in China in response to the US Justice Department’s prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – John Bolton, who worked as national security adviser to US President Donald Trump from 2018 to 2019, told NPR's All Things Considered that he does not believe the United States is safer today than it was four years ago.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US presidential rivals Donald Trump and Joe Biden will court early voters on Sunday as their campaigns step up events ahead of their final debate this week.