Up until recently it seemed a very safe bet that Angela Merkel would win another term as chancellor in September’s election, but more and more polling suggests otherwise.

The most recent…

Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts with Russia. 

Trump kept his No. 2 in the dark…

The Kremlin denied on Tuesday that it was behind media and Internet attacks on the campaign of French presidential frontrunner, Emmanuel Macron, though his camp renewed the charges against Russian…

Turkish police have detained more than 800 people over alleged links to Kurdish fighters in nationwide operations, according to state media.

Police conducted simultaneous raids in 37…

A suicide bombing, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban faction, has killed three policemen and two passersby in the administrative headquarters of a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, officials…

India has created history by successfully launching 104 satellites on a single mission, overtaking the previous record of 37 satellites launched by Russia in 2014.

All but three of the…

Tensions are again simmering in the contested region of Kashmir after violence broke out on February 12 between militants and the Indian Army, killing civilians as well.

Kashmir is a…

A painting exhibition by the artist couple Hojjat and Mina Shakiba will open at Shokouh Gallery in northern Tehran on Friday, February 17, featuring depictions of Qajari women and landscapes.

‘Spies,’ a novel written in 2002 by English author and dramatist Michael Frayn, 83, is now available in Persian.

The Persian translation of the psychological novel by Kayhan Bahmani, 45,…

The exhibition ‘Graphic Design of Iran (1)’ opens today, February 16, at the Iranian Museum of Graphic Design in Tehran, with a fresh look at the works of Iranian graphic designers in the 1940s…

‘The Good, the Bad, the Gaudy’, the debut film by comedy screenwriter Peyman Qasemkhani, has started Norouz (Persian New Year) screenings in Iran.

The International Conference on Indo-Persian Studies will be held on February 19-20 at the Shahidi Hall of Iran’s Academy of Persian Language and Literature in Tehran.

The event will be…

France’s new premier Bernard Cazeneuve said the French-German partnership remains a “daily lived reality”.

Welcoming him on his first visit to Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a…

The Federal Reserve will likely have to raise interest rates more rapidly than financial markets currently expect given that any new policies by the Trump administration, while uncertain, will…

The estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been killed in Malaysia, a South Korean government source said on Tuesday.

Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of the…

Oil strengthened slightly on Tuesday, supported by an OPEC-led effort to cut output while rising production elsewhere kept prices within the narrow ranges that have contained them so far this year…

House prices have not increased in the past four years and that is not expected to change in the foreseeable future, said the minister of roads and urban development. “We had 650,000 empty housing…

The Central Bank of Iran and Japan's Financial Service Agency signed an exchange of letter on February 12 aimed at easing banking relations and promoting exchange of experience related to…

In the latest measure to gradually revitalize Iran’s banking relations with other countries following the lifting of international sanctions, the governor of Central Bank of Iran, Valiollah Seif,…

Iranian fintech firms and startups have been in the spotlight in recent months, with bankers expressing interest in forging partnership with them. Some experts, however, are concerned about the…

High-ranking officials of Iran and Luxembourg have signed an agreement to support investments and improve banking ties.

Throughout history, the path to industrial development has been paved by steel industry. It has built up invaluable infrastructures, spearheaded technological development and spurred economic…

The government has made an aggregate payment of 119 trillion rials ($3.12 billion) to Tehran Municipality over the two past two years, of which 61 trillion rials ($1.59 billion) were paid in the…

Some 120 lawmakers have signed a parliamentary motion aimed at improving the lives of border residents and couriers. 

New statistical figures suggest many Germans are still wary about buying shares. And this despite an environment where saving money doesn't seem to make much sense because of continuously low…