Even as the United States is attempting to rope in NATO to create an anti-Tehran coalition, US president Donald Trump’s claim that even if there was to be a war with Iran it would be a short one, was summarily dismissed by Iran's foreign minister.   "'Short war' with Iran is an illusion,"...

San Francisco became the first US city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes. The relevant decree was issued in the city council on June 26. The council voted to ban sale of electronic cigarettes until a special marketing authorization was obtained from the Federal Food and Drug Administration...

Beijing has declared veterinary certificates accompanying products fake. China has suspended imports of pork from Canada. The temporary ban is associated with fake veterinary certificates that accompany this product. As a result, an inspection conducted at the request of the PRC revealed 188 fake...

Macron talks about the EU session to choose EU Commission from the three candidates. On last Friday, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, informed that all the three “lead candidates”, otherwise called Spitzenkandidaten, for the “European Commission presidency” did not get “enough support”...

US President Donald Trump discussed with his entourage withdrawal from the agreement on mutual cooperation and security guarantees with Japan, which was signed in 1951, Bloomberg reports on Tuesday. According to the agency’s source, the American president has recently expressed dissatisfaction with...

“Major additional sanctions” would be imposed against Iran soon by the United States, said President Donald Trump. Tensions between Washington and Tehran reached new heights after the shooting down of a US drone by Iranian surface to air missile. Following that incident, Trump cancelled an order to...

The EU Summit leaders’ footnote to final statement shows support for the “mid-century goal”. The EU has pushed towards turning the “biggest economic bloc” in the world “carbon-neutral by 2050”. The news came as a footnote of the summit that was held on Thursday, June 20, 2019, while “Poland, the...

It is not likely that the incident involving the bringing down of an American drone by security forces of Iran in the Middle East on Thursday would lead to an all out conflict between the United States and Iran, believe analysts, despite the rising of tensions between Washington and Tehran after...

The incident with the downed Iranian drone of the United States made a number of international airlines refuse to fly over the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. Several international airlines, including German Lufthansa, the Dutch KLM and British Airways, said on Friday, June 21, that their...