According to local reports, prison officials stepped in to rescue the Swiss national at the Semnan prison, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of Tehran. But their efforts were in vain.View on eurone ...

His win ends a lengthy power vacuum and represents a pivot by Beirut toward the West, with Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah weakened by last year’s bruising conflict with Israel.

A man was stabbed in a Bronx train station early Sunday, mere hours after congestion pricing went into effect, forcing more New Yorkers into the increasingly violent subway system. It was not ...

These deliberations were reportedly in preparation for the scenario where Tehran moves toward producing a nuclear weapon before January 20, the date President-elect Donald Trump is set to assume ...

Tehran issued the warning to the Italian ambassador to Iran, Paola Amadei, who was summoned to the foreign ministry, the official IRNA news agency reported. The meeting took place a day after ...

Tehran has dismissed the allegations as baseless. Italy also summoned Iran’s ambassador to discuss the case of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, who entered Iran on December 13 with a journalist visa ...

which finds itself caught up in Iran’s shadow war with the U.S. The regime in Tehran on Friday repeated its demand that Italy release Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was arrested last ...

On Friday, lawyer Alfredo De Francesco visited Abedini in prison and said his client had asked him about Cecilia Sala, an Italian reporter detained in Tehran just days after Abedini was arrested ...

(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A man survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an incoming train in New York City on New Year’s ...

ROME — Italy summoned Iran’s ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran, as the government and opposition ramped up public pressure on ...

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