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TEHRAN (defapress) – At least 10 African refugees were killed and 35 others wounded after mortar shells launched by Saudi-backed militiamen targeted a district in Manba border town in Yemen’s northern province of Sa’ada.
News ID: 79323 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday scheduled a session of parliament next week to discuss draft legislation on banking secrecy and returning stolen state funds, state news agency NNA reported.
News ID: 79322 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party holds a 16-point lead over the opposition Labour Party three weeks ahead of the Dec. 12 general election, according to an Ipsos MORI poll for the Evening Standard newspaper.
News ID: 79321 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales, who was forced to resign under pressure from military and political opponents, called on the United Nations (UN) to help stop the “massacre” of anti-government demonstrators by the government forces in the Latin American country.
News ID: 79320 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump wants an impeachment trial to go forward in the US Senate because he would receive due process there and he expects Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden would be among the witnesses, a White House spokesman said.
News ID: 79319 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi condemned recent moves by some European Union officials to interfere in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic and said instead of defending the “thugs”, the EU should meet its commitments to the Iranian nation.
News ID: 79318 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – More than 35 civilians were killed and injured after foreign-sponsored militants targeted residential areas in Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo.
News ID: 79317 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – US Navy warships twice sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea in the past few days, the US military said, at a time of heightened tension between the world’s two largest economies.
News ID: 79316 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – The Iranian air defense units on Friday staged the final phase of a large-scale military exercise in the northern parts of the country.
News ID: 79315 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Dozens of pro-Palestinian students held an anti-Israeli protest inside the Toronto's York University campus, as former Israeli soldiers were set to visit the university and speak to students on their experiences in the army.
News ID: 79314 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna described the country’s recent steps to reduce its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal as “consistent” with the accord and said Tehran is still acting within its framework.
News ID: 79313 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Visiting Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian held a bilateral meeting with his Russian counterpart, Alexander Novak, about a $5 billion loan that Moscow plans to give Tehran to implement infrastructure projects in the Islamic Republic.
News ID: 79312 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not resign despite being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a corruption scandal that he denounced as an “attempted coup”.
News ID: 79311 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Security forces reopened the entrance to Iraq’s main port of Umm Qasr on Friday after dispersing protesters who had been blocking it since Monday, port officials said.
News ID: 79310 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Shippers scrambled to shift freight onto trucks on Thursday as a strike at Canada’s biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway Co, hit its third day, leaving the critical fuel propane and other goods stranded.
News ID: 79309 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – People staged rally in the streets of Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad after Friday prayers to condemn recent riots and support the Islamic Republic.
News ID: 79308 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Hojatoleslam Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi warned against the consequences of acts of vandalism during recent riots in various provinces of the country and said that “severe punishment” awaits those making the society insecure.
News ID: 79307 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Former US national security adviser John Bolton said in a series of cryptic tweets that he’s regained control of his personal Twitter account, asserting the White House refused to provide access to it after he resigned in September.
News ID: 79306 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) - Iran’s new indigenous air defense system, The Khordad 15th, has for the first time been used in real combat conditions against mock enemy targets in the final phase of Army Air Defense drills.
News ID: 79305 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) – Commander of the Iranian Army’s Air Defense Force Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard praised the success of the large-scale air defense drills in northern parts of the country and said all targets were shot down by domestic air defense systems.
News ID: 79304 Publish Date : 2019/11/23
