Three University of Texas professors have lost another legal round in their challenge to a Texas law allowing people with concealed-handgun licenses to carry weapons on public university campuses. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to revive...
U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday angrily denounced the federal probe of Russia's 2016 election meddling as "McCarthyism at its WORST!," insisting he had authorized his White House counsel to testify to bring the matter to a close. Trump's Twitter storm was set off by a front-page report in...
Palestinian postal workers in the West Bank are sifting through eight years' worth of undelivered mail held by Israel. In recent days the Palestinian postal staff in Jericho has been sorting through tons of undelivered mail in a room packed with letters, boxes and even a...
India lost its last four wickets for six runs to be bowled out for 329 by England early in the second day of the third test at Trent Bridge on Sunday. Resuming on 307-6, India added 22 runs to its overnight total with England pacemen Stuart Broad and James Anderson wrapping up the...
Russia's top investigative agency says it has detained a deputy head of the nation's top space corporation on fraud charges. The Investigative Committee said Sunday's that Alexei Beloborodov, a deputy director general of the state-controlled RKK Energiya company, has been detained along...
A doping ban will keep China out of weightlifting at the Asian Games. China and eight other countries, including Asian Games participant Kazakhstan, were suspended last October for 12 months. Weightlifting has been under pressure from the IOC to eliminate endemic doping or be banned from the...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that a new Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic Republic, but would fail. He was speaking on the 65th anniversary of a U.S.-backed coup that overthrew a democratically elected Iranian...
U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser arrived in Israel Sunday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a time of shared concerns over Syria, Iran and the Gaza Strip. John Bolton said on Twitter he was "looking forward to meeting with PM Netanyahu and other...
RSS FOLLOW EMAIL PRINT SHARE Agence France Presse TEHRAN: Iran will unveil this week a new jet fighter and upgrade its missile defenses to meet threats from Israel and the U.S., Tasnim news agency said Sunday quoting the defense minister. "Our first priority is our missile capability...
With its air raid simulator and battlefield reconstructions, the state-of-the-art Holy Defense Museum in Tehran seeks to glorify the Iran-Iraq war as a time when the country faced down "the whole world." As Iranians prepare to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the devastating...
An Iranian lawmaker said Saturday that President Hassan Rouhani would appear before parliament Aug. 28 to answer questions on his government's handling of Iran's economic struggles, but an aide to Rouhani denied a date had been set. Lawmaker Assadollah Abbasi was quoted as saying...
Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score but helped get Juventus's title defence off the mark with a 3-2 win against Chievo as Carlo Ancelotti began life as Napoli coach also with a come-from-behind 2-1 victory at Lazio in the opening matches of the 2018-2019 league season on...
Southern separatists opened fire on a military academy graduation ceremony in Yemen's port city of Aden Saturday, killing a cadet and wounding at least two others, witnesses said. The incident is the latest in a series of killings and bombings in the southern city, the temporary headquarters...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that everything must be done for Syrian refugees to return to their conflict-torn country. Speaking ahead of talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside Berlin, Putin said that Syria needed assistance to rebuild and to ensure that...
Eden Hazard came off the bench to inspire Chelsea's dramatic 3-2 win over Arsenal on Saturday, then told Blues boss Maurizio Sarri he is desperate to return to the starting line-up. Hazard has started on the bench for Chelsea's opening two games of the Premier League season after the...
South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus was critical of his side after they defeated Argentina 34-21 in their Rugby Championship opener at Kings Park stadium in Durban on Saturday. Erasmus said his team were far from where they needed to be and rated only 25 minutes of the game as "satisfactory"...
Qatar and Liechtenstein delivered a joint message to HE the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, expressing their deep condemnation and concern at reports that monitor the Syrian regime's violations, abuses, torture and systematic killing of prisoners whose only charge was...
(Zaman AlWasl)- Huge explosion rocked a base for powerful Tahrir al Sham jihadist group in northern Idlib province, leaving 3 fighters dead, local activists said Saturday. The former all Qaeda’ branch in Syria controls most of Idlib, the last territory out of Bashar al-Assad's control. ...
Syria's northern province of Idlib is home to the last major rebel bastion in the country, and part of it could be the next target of Russian-backed government forces. An operation looks imminent but may be limited in scope, giving more time for a deal with Turkey, which also has forces...
Israel has rejected a report by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining options for strengthening the protection of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement late Friday that "the only protection the Palestinian people...
